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Megan Lavengood (she/her) is Associate Professor and Director of Music Theory at George Mason University. Her research primarily deals with popular music, timbre, synthesizers, and recording techniques. Her current research project focuses on pedagogy of timbre analysis in the theory classroom. She is a soprano in the Schola Cantorum at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC.
Megan Lavengood (she/her) is Associate Professor and Director of Music Theory at George Mason University. Her research primarily deals with popular music, timbre, synthesizers, and recording techniques. Her article on the iconic Yamaha DX7 electric piano sound appears in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and her methodology for timbre analysis is described an article in Music Theory Online. Her current research project focuses on pedagogy of timbre analysis in the theory classroom. As a pedagogue, she focuses on incorporating popular music as a step toward inclusivity of music students from non-traditional backgrounds. She has headed teams that won grants to redesign GMU’s core theory curriculum to be modular instead of sequential and to substantially expand the open educational resource Open Music Theory. She is a soprano in the Schola Cantorum at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC.
Megan Lavengood (she/her) is Associate Professor and Area Director of Music Theory at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA (about 20 miles from Washington, DC). Her research primarily deals with popular music, timbre, synthesizers, and recording techniques. Her article on the iconic Yamaha DX7 electric piano sound appears in the Journal of Popular Music Studies. She has published two articles in Music Theory Online: one outlining her methodology for timbre analysis, and another on video game music and topic theory. Her current research project focuses on pedagogy of timbre analysis in the theory classroom.
As a pedagogue, she focuses on incorporating popular music as a step toward inclusivity of music students from non-traditional backgrounds. She has headed teams that won grants to redesign GMU’s core theory curriculum to be modular instead of sequential (described in an article in Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy) and substantially expanded the open educational resource Open Music Theory.
Dr. Lavengood is originally from Cincinnati, OH, and holds a BM from Ohio University, an MM from Florida State University, and a PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her primary instrument is piano, but is also a professional choral soprano, currently in the Schola Cantorum at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC.