Dr. Chang completed several years of research on the problem of rhythm and meter in the unmeasured harpsichord preludes of Louis Couperin. He has begun to explore in the expression of tonality in mid-20th century American art music and pre-Baroque keyboard music, and the harmonic and tonal practice of American popular vocal music ca. 1910-1940. Of particular interest is the relationship of text and music, ranging from 19th-century German Lieder to Tin Pan Alley songs to contemporary pop and rock music.
keywords
harmony and counterpoint (undergraduate core), pedagogy of music theory, text and music relations, pop and rock music, 18th-century counterpoint, post-tonal analysis, French unmeasured harpsichord preludes
