Salley Presents at Annual Meeting of Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic

Coordinator of Music Theory and Associate Professor of Music Keith Salley, Ph.D., presented research at the annual meeting of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, at William Paterson University last month. His talk, “Capturing Schemata in Standard Jazz Repertoire,” incorporated facets of Gestalt psychology into corpus analysis, qualifying recurrent constellations of musical features as musical schemata. This is Dr. Salley’s first presentation on the topic of schema theory, but constitutes his third research endeavor involving the corpus of jazz standards—a corpus with which he has been working since 2015.