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David Clem serves as Dean of the Greatbatch School of Music and Assistant Professor of Music History at Houghton University, where he teaches undergraduate courses in Western Music History, Film Music, and American Popular Music, along with graduate seminars in Research and Bibliography and Music, Worship, and Culture in Christian Perspective.
His research focuses on film and television music, intertextuality, register theory, and philosophy of music, with particular interest in how pre-existing music functions across multimedia contexts. Clem regularly presents at the Music and the Moving Image Conference at NYU Steinhardt and has contributed to major Oxford Handbooks on Medievalism and Advertising.
His scholarly output examines epic traditions in contemporary media, mythopoetic elements in film scores, and intermedial adaptation processes, revealing cross-disciplinary connections between musicology, semiotics, and cultural studies. Recent publications analyze cinematic adaptations of Arthurian legend and the role of music in bridging narrative gaps in fantasy franchises.
- Nominee for Excellence in Teaching Award (2019)
- Presidential Fellowship at University at Buffalo (2011-2015)
- Buffalo Philharmonic Young Composer’s Forum selection (2006)
As an active composer and violist, Clem performs with the Southern Tier Symphony and Houghton Symphony Orchestra while maintaining decade-long affiliations with Buffalo ensembles including the Cheektowaga Community Symphony Orchestra and Amherst Chamber Ensembles. His educational background includes doctoral work at University at Buffalo where he developed register theory applications for multimedia music analysis under James Currie.
