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Danuta Mirka is a Professor at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music in the Department of Music Theory and Cognition. She holds the Harry N. and Ruth F. Wyatt Chair in Music Theory and has been recognized with major awards for her scholarship.
- PhD in Musicology from University of Helsinki
- Senior Fulbright Fellow at Indiana University
- Humboldt Fellow and DFG Research Fellow at University of Freiburg
- Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow at University of Southampton
Her research synthesizes historical music theory with contemporary cognitive approaches, focusing on metric manipulations in Haydn/Mozart, sonoristic structuralism in Penderecki, and topic theory in eighteenth-century music. She has developed analytical frameworks for textural and timbral systems in avant-garde compositions.
Key trends across her publications include: cross-disciplinary application of semiotics and fuzzy logic to music analysis; systematic studies of cadential structures in Classical-era works; and innovative methodologies for analyzing non-traditional instrumental techniques. Her article on Penderecki's sonoristic style introduced groundbreaking concepts of six-dimensional textural analysis.
- Society for Music Theory Citation of Special Merit (2015)
- Wallace Berry Award (2011)
- Marjorie Weston Emerson Award (2023)
- Roland Jackson Award (2017)
Mirka has edited major reference works and served on editorial boards of leading journals. Her scholarship bridges Polish avant-garde traditions with Western analytical methodologies.
