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Megan Kaes Long is an Associate Professor of Music Theory at Oberlin College and Conservatory, where she teaches courses such as Aural Skills and Counterpoint. Her research focuses on 16th and 17th-century European song traditions and music theory, particularly the works of William Byrd and Thomas Morley. She holds a PhD from Yale University (2014), an MA from Yale (2010), and a BA from Pomona College (2008).
- Education:
- PhD in Music Theory, Yale University, 2014
- MA in Music Theory, Yale University, 2010
- BA in Music, Pomona College, 2008
Her book Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford UP, 2020) won the Wallace Berry Award. She also received the Society for Music Theory’s Emerging Scholar Award (2018) for her work on plagal cadences. Long’s research has been supported by ACLS and NEH grants. She serves as editor of SMT-V, the Society for Music Theory’s video-journal, and is an accomplished mezzo-soprano specializing in Renaissance and Baroque music.
Her recent scholarship explores solmization systems, cadential syntax, and the evolution of key signatures in early modern England. Notable articles include analyses of Byrd’s counterpoint techniques and the rhetorical function of plagal cadences in funeral elegies.
