Ram Reuven is an associate professor of music theory and the coordinator of the international Master’s program in music theory. His research interests encompass the analysis of Western tonal art music, Schenkerian theory and analysis, historic counterpoint pedagogy, the integration of cognitive science into music theory, the relationship between music theory and performance, and music theory education.
He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Among his works are the 2021 article “Undersurface Sequences” in Music Theory Spectrum and the 2013 textbook Tzlilogia: A Complete Guide to the Elementary Theory of Western Music, embraced by a broad readership in Israel.
Publications
- Theory into Practice: Utilizing Reductional Analysis to Develop Performative Interpretation in Chamber Ensembles 2023
- Renaissance of the Perfect Fourth: The Consonance-Dissonance Classification Dilemma During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 2022
- The Perfect Fourth’s Unsettled Classification During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 2022
- Playing with Reductions: Bridging Music Theory Pedagogy and Performance Practice 2022
- One for All, All for One: Organization of One-Time Events in a Musical Piece 2021
- An Analysis of Non-Repetitive Elements 2021
- Repetitions and Rarity: Interrelations Between Music Theory and Piano Pedagogy 2021
- Undersurface Sequences 2021
- Once Upon a Time: Towards the Theorization of Rarity in Music 2020
- On the origin of species counterpoint 2020