Skip to content

Megan L. Lavengood

music theorist

  • Home
  • About
  • Teaching
  • Research
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Search

Category: featured

The Yamaha DX7 in Synthesizer History

close-up photo of Yamaha DX7 settings
Leo-setä, © CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

To say that the DX7’s arrival was earth-shaking would be no exaggeration: the affordable price, sound palette, and physical feel of the instrument combined to make the DX7 the new must-have instrument in every studio, garage, and university music department in the U.S. and the U.K.

Published May 12, 2022
Categorized as 80s, featured, timbre Tagged 80s music, DX7, electric piano

What actually are all these songs on the Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes toy?

It’s not just the Greatest Hits of the Classical Era—there are some seriously deep cuts.

Published July 21, 2021
Categorized as featured, just for fun Tagged baby, bach, baroque music, beethoven, chopin, classical music, mozart, rossini, telemann, twitter, vivaldi

The complete guide to typing music theory stuff into your paper without it looking ugly

Scale degrees, accidentals, figures—let’s do it all. After obsessing over typographical details in my theory papers for over 10 years, I am distilling my tricks for anyone else who might like a hand making their papers look pretty.

Published March 11, 2021
Categorized as featured, writing Tagged chord symbols, fonts, latex, ms word, music theory, pages, scale degrees, typesetting, unicode

Journal of Schenkerian Studies: Proving the Point

The respondents claiming that we can easily detach racism from theory seem to be willfully deluding themselves and ignoring what Ewell said in the first place.

Published July 27, 2020
Categorized as featured, taking action, theory Tagged ewell, race, schenker, Society for Music Theory

The Tenure-Track Job Search in Music Theory

Where are the jobs? What is the timeline for applying? How can you prepare? What do you pack?

Published May 2, 2017
Categorized as featured, theory Tagged jobs, music theory jobs, professional development, statistics, tenure
Megan L. Lavengood
© 2025