Kyle Hutchinson
Department/Office Information
Music- M 11:10am - 1:00pm (Charles Dana Arts Center)
- W 11:10am - 12:10pm (Charles Dana Arts Center)
- R 9:40am - 10:05am (Charles Dana Arts Center)
Contact
khutchinson1@colgate.eduKyle鈥檚 research interests include the psychoacoustics of chromatic tonality in the music of composers such as Richard Strauss, both Gustav and Alma Mahler, and Florence Price. He is also interested in intersections of analysis and ethnography in Price鈥檚 music, theorizing the role of melody in form-functional theory, and intersections of narrative and musical structure in Broadway musicals.
Kyle鈥檚 first monograph, titled Processual Tonality and the Psychoacoustics of Chromaticism, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press, and his research has been published in leading journals in both North America and internationally. He is currently working on several other book projects, including an edited volume on contemporary approaches to chromatic harmony, and two further monographs: one on the instrumental music of Florence Price, the other on musical structure in contemporary Broadway musicals.
Kyle's article 鈥淐hromatically Altered Diminished-Seventh Chords鈥 (published in Music Analysis) was the recipient of the Society for Music Theory鈥檚 2024 Emerging Scholar Award, and his work on chromatic harmony has also received the Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award from the Music Theory Society of New York State in 2020, and the George Proctor Prize from the Canadian University Music Society in 2018. Kyle has also received the University of Toronto faculty of music鈥檚 award for outstanding Teaching Assistant in 2017, and an award for distinguished service to the faculty of music in 2020.
Kyle is currently co-editor of the journal Theory and Practice, a member of the Publication Awards Committee (books) for the Society for Music Theory, and he served on the 2023-2024 program committee, and as a Board member, for the Music Theory Society of New York State.