Independent Researcher

Thesis Title: Incomplete Ursatzformen Transferences in the Vocal Music of Heinrich Schenker

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Dr. Ayotte is the Founder and Proprietor of Ayotte Custom Musical Engravings ( http://www.ayottemusic.com), an ASCAP-Affiliated music publishing firm. Last year he was a full-time lecturer at the University of North Carolina, where he taught in the four-semester basic musicianship sequence (both written and aural theory) as well as twentieth-century ananlysis and sixteenth-century counterpoint.  Prior to his appointment at UNCG, Ayotte taught graduate review courses in written and aural theory at Michigan State University. He has published articles and reviews in Nineteenth Century Music Review, MLA Notes, Artes Fontis Musicae, and Acta Musicologica.  He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies and has served as an outside reader for the Journal of Music Theory and the Journal of the Bach-Riemenschneider Institute.  As well, he served as an editorial assistant for Gordon Sly's edited collection "Keys to the Drama: Nine Perspectives on Sonata Form" for which he engraved Edward Laufer's Chopin sketches for Chapter Seven.  His dissertation (MSU, 2008) examines Heinrich Schenker's varied and creative use of the auxiliary cadence technique to reflect the poetic content of his own Lieder.

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