Dr. Timothy Koozin
Dr. Timothy Koozin
Professor and Area Chair of Music Theory
Moores School of Music, University of Houston
email: tkoozin@uh.edu
Timothy Koozin (Ph.D., University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music) is professor and area chair of Music Theory at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston. He is author of Embodied Expression in Popular Music: A Theory of Musical Gesture and Agency published by Oxford University Press (2024). His research interests include music and meaning, popular music, and film music. His articles appear in Perspectives of New Music, Contemporary Music Review, Music Theory Online, and The Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy. His analytical essays on embodied musical gesture in popular music, focused on artists including U2, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Sarah McLachlan, and Jimi Hendrix, appear in journal articles and in collected essays published by Routledge (2023, 2008), Cambridge University Press (2016), and Ashgate (2015). His edited collection of essays on the film music of Fumio Hayasaka and Toru Takemitsu comprises a 2010 volume of The Journal of Film Music. Koozin is co-author of three music theory textbooks published by Cengage, Music for Sight Singing, Techniques and Materials of Music and Music for Ear Training, and the Music for Analysis anthology published by Oxford University Press. He regularly presents papers at national and regional scholarly meetings and has presented at international conferences in Canada, England, The Netherlands, Norway, Austria, and Ireland. He is the former editor of the electronic journal of the Society for Music Theory, Music Theory Online.
Book: Embodied Expression in Popular Music: A Theory of Musical Gesture and Agency, Oxford University Press, 2024.
Recent book chapters:
“Gloria: Counterpoint and Expression in the Music of U2.” In Analyzing Recorded Music, William Moylan, Lori Burns, and Mike Alleyne, eds. (Routledge, 2023).
“Music in Akira Kurosawa’s Filmic Adaptations of Shakespeare: Throne of Blood (1957), The Bad Sleep Well (1960), and Ran (1985)” in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music, eds. Mervyn Cooke and Christopher Wilson (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Textbooks:
Music for Analysis, anthology. New 9th edition. Streaming audio website
Music for Sight Singing, sight singing textbook
Techniques and Materials of Music, music theory textbook
Music for Ear Training, aural skills workbook with MindTap audio
Current course materials are available on UH Canvas.
Online listening and other research resources: UH Library music research media UH Music Library home
Music Theory, Musicology, and Composition at the UH Moores School of Music (download)