Faculty Profile

Ellen Bakulina

Title
Associate Professor
Department
Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology
College
College of Music

    

Education

PhD, City University of New York, 2015.
Major: Music Theory
Dissertation Title: The Problem of Tonal Disunity in Sergei Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, op. 37
MA, McGill University, 2010.
Major: Music Theory
Dissertation Title: Polyphony as a loosening technique in Mozart's 'Haydn' quartets
BM, McGill University, 2007.
Major: Music Theory
Diploma (International), Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, 2005.
Major: Music theory, history, and folklore studies
Dissertation Title: I did not finish this degree due to immigration to Canada (2004)
BM, Academic College of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, 2003.
Major: Music theory, history, and folklore studies
Degree Specialization: Music theory

Current Scheduled Teaching*

No current or future courses scheduled.

* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching*

MUTH 5410.001, 16th Century Counterpoint, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUGC 6950.731, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2022
MUTH 5010.001, Graduate Theory Review, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 3410.001, Sixteenth Century Counterpoint, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUGC 6950.723, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2021
MUTH 3510.002, Form Analysis, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5510.002, Form Analysis, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5010.001, Graduate Theory Review, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 4920.700, Advanced Colloquium in Music Theory, Spring 2021
MUGC 6950.731, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2021
MUTH 5010.001, Graduate Theory Review, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUGC 5950.725, Master's Thesis, Spring 2021
MUTH 5680.001, Proseminar in Music Theory, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 6680.001, Proseminar in Music Theory, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUGC 6950.723, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2020
MUTH 3510.001, Form Analysis, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5010.001, Graduate Theory Review, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
MUGC 5930.705, Research Problem in Lieu of Thesis, Fall 2020
MUTH 5900.702, Special Problems, Fall 2020
MUGC 6950.731, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2020
MUTH 3510.003, Form Analysis, Spring 2020 Syllabus
MUTH 5510.003, Form Analysis, Spring 2020 Syllabus
MUTH 5010.001, Graduate Theory Review, Spring 2020 Syllabus
MUTH 5900.703, Special Problems, Spring 2020
MUGC 6950.723, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2019
MUTH 5010.001, Graduate Theory Review, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 4370.001, Schenkerian Analysis, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5380.001, Schenkerian Analysis, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 6900.702, Special Problems, Fall 2019
MUTH 5420.001, 18th Century Counterpoint, Spring 2019 SPOT
MUGC 6950.731, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2019
MUTH 3420.001, Eighteenth Century Counterpoint, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 3420.003, Eighteenth Century Counterpoint, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5010.001, Graduate Theory Review, Spring 2019 SPOT
MUGC 5950.725, Master's Thesis, Spring 2019
MUTH 6900.703, Special Problems, Spring 2019
MUGC 6950.723, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2018
MUTH 5010.001, Graduate Theory Review, Fall 2018 SPOT
MUGC 5950.711, Master's Thesis, Fall 2018
MUTH 5080.002, Pedagogy of Theory, Fall 2018 SPOT
MUTH 6900.704, Special Problems, Fall 2018
MUTH 6900.704, Special Problems, Fall 8W2 2018
MUTH 5420.001, 18th Century Counterpoint, Spring 2018 SPOT
MUTH 3420.001, Eighteenth Century Counterpoint, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5010.001, Graduate Theory Review, Spring 2018 SPOT
MUTH 6900.701, Special Problems, Spring 2018
MUTH 4920.705, Advanced Colloquium in Music Theory, Fall 2017
MUTH 3510.001, Form Analysis, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5010.001, Graduate Theory Review, Fall 2017 SPOT
MUTH 5080.002, Pedagogy of Theory, Fall 2017 SPOT
MUTH 5010.001, Graduate Theory Review, Spring 2017 SPOT
MUTH 5680.001, Proseminar in Music Theory, Spring 2017 SPOT
MUTH 6680.001, Proseminar in Music Theory, Spring 2017 SPOT
MUTH 5420.002, 18th Century Counterpoint, Fall 2016 SPOT
MUTH 3420.001, Eighteenth Century Counterpoint, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 3420.002, Eighteenth Century Counterpoint, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5010.001, Graduate Theory Review, Fall 2016 SPOT

* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Publications

Published Intellectual Contributions

Blog post
Bakulina, E. (2018). Form-Functional Ambiguity: The Issue of Closure in Performance. (February 2018), . https://smtpaig.wordpress.com/
Book Chapter
Bakulina, E. (2020). Tonal Pairing in Two of Rachmaninoff's Songs. Analytical Approaches to Russian Music: Tonality, Modernism, Serialism. New York: Routledge Press.
Journal Article
Bakulina, O. (2021). "The Loosening of Closure: a Form-Functional Study of Rachmaninoff's Solo Songs". Theory and Practice. 45, . New York State:.
Bakulina, O. (2020). Theories of Harmonic Functions in Russia: An Introduction to Three Essays. Theoria: Historical Aspects of Music Theory. 26, 55-60. Denton, TX: UNT.
Bakulina, E. (2020). The Brigade Textbook: Disseminating the Riemannian Legacy in the Russian-Soviet Theoretical Tradition. Theoria: Historical Aspects of Music Theory. This is part of a conference panel--three papers, all of which are now published in Theoria together.. 26, 86-111. Denton:.
Bakulina, E. (2019). Proto-Harmony in Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil.
Bakulina, E. (2017). Canons as hypermetrical transitions in Mozart. Music Theory Online. 23(4), 41 paragraphs.
Bakulina, E. (2015). Tonality and Mutability in Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, Movement 12. The Journal of Music Theory. 59(1), 63-97.
Bakulina, E. (2014). The Concept of Mutability in Russian Theory. Music Theory Online. 20(3), . http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.14.20.3/mto.14.20.3.bakulina.html
Bakulina, E. (2012). The Loosening Role of Polyphony: Texture and Formal Functions in Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets. Other. 32(2), 7-42.
Translation or Transcription
Bakulina, E. (2014). Bibliography of music theory textbooks in Russian.
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