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Rebecca Leydon

  • Professor of Music Theory

Areas of Study

Education

  • PhD, McGill University, 1996
  • MA, Eastman School of Music, 1991
  • BM, University Toronto, 1988

Fall 2026

Music Theory II MUTH 132

Musical Grooves MUTH 360

Spring 2027

Music Theory II MUTH 132

Polyphonies MUTH 261PT

  • Leydon, R. (2018). Review: Yayoi Uno Everett, Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera in JAMS 71/1 (April 2018)
  • Leydon, R. (2016). Scelsis Pfhat: Apparitions of a Monumental Past.
  • Leydon, R. (2013). Debussy Redux, Music Theory Online Volume 19/2 (June 2013)
  • Leydon, R. (2012). Clean as a Whistle: Timbral Trajectories and the Modern Musical Sublime, Music Theory Online Volume 18/2.
  • Leydon, R. (2012). Narrativity, Descriptivity, and Secondary Parameters: Ecstasy Enacted in Salvatore Sciarrinos Infinito Nero, in Michael Klein and Nicholas Reyland, eds, Narrative and Music Since 1900. Indiana University Press.
  • Leydon, R. (2010). Recombinant Style Topics: Musical Form and the Logic of Sampling, Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music. Mark Spicer and John Covach, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Leydon, R. (2005). The Sounds of Early Cinema. Book review in Journal of the American Musicological Society 58/1.
  • Leydon, R. (2004). Forbidden Planet: Effects and Affects in the Electro Avant-garde, in Off the Planet: Music, Sound, and Science Fiction Cinema, Philip Hayward, ed. London, Bloomington: John Libbey, Indiana University Press.
  • Leydon, R. (2004). Hooked on Aetherophonics: The Day the Earth Stood Still, in Off the Planet: Music, Sound, and Science Fiction Cinema, P. Hayward, ed. London, Bloomington: John Libbey, Indiana University Press.
  • Leydon, R. (2002). Ces nymphes, je les veux perp矇tuer: The Post-war Pastoral in Spaceage Bachelor-Pad Music, in Popular Music 22/2: 159-172.
  • Leydon, R. (2002). Towards a Typology of Minimalist Tropes, Music Theory Online 8.4.
  • Leydon, R. (2002). The Soft-Focus Sound, in Perspectives of New Music. 39/2: 96-107.
  • Leydon, R., K. K瓣rki, H. Terho, eds. (2002). Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Turku, Finland: IASPM-Norden.
  • Leydon, R. (2001). Debussys Late Style and the Devices of the Early Silent Cinema, in Music Theory Spectrum, 23/2: 217-241.
  • Leydon, R. (2000). Utopias of the Tropics: Les Baxter and Yma Sumac, in Widening the Horizons: Exoticism in Post-War popular Music, Phil Hayward, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press: 45-71.
  • Leydon, R. (1996). Narrative Strategies in Debussys Late Style, PhD Dissertation, McGill University. UMI Dissertations.

Musical semiotics, 20th century music, music and visual culture, musical form, popular music, film music, and avant-garde practices.