Music Theory and Aural Skills

Richard Drehoff Jr. is an adjunct faculty member and doctoral candidate at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. His research interests explore both the psychological affect derived from listeners' perceptions of gesture across varying durational contexts and the sonic construction of sensations of intimacy and vulnerability across the composer-performer-listener dynamic. Richard currently serves on the board of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic (Student Representative).

Presentations and Publications

Embodied Liminality: Musical Chimerism in Chaya Czernowin’s Infinite Now. Music Theory Society of New York State, 2023 Annual Meeting; New York, NY. April 1–2, 2023.

Embodied Liminality: Musical Chimerism in Chaya Czernowin’s Infinite Now. Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, 21st Annual Meeting; Baltimore, MD. March 24–25, 2023.

A Boccaccian Quarantine: A Case Study of Early-Pandemic Musical Works. With David Carlton Adams. Music in Global Epidemics Conference; virtual. March 10–11, 2023.

Deconstructing the ‘Lady with the Hammer’: New Ways of Hearing Galina Ustvolskaya’s Piano Sonata No. 6. Society of Music Theory, 2022 AMS-SEM-SMT Joint Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA. November 10, 2022.

Deconstructing the ‘Lady with the Hammer’: New Ways of Hearing Galina Ustvolskaya’s Piano Sonata No. 6. Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, 19th Annual Meeting; virtual. July 30, 2021.

Transcribing Notations: Continuity of temporal semiotic units in the orchestration of Pierre Boulez’s Notations (1945/1978). Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, 17th Annual Meeting; Baltimore, MD. March 29, 2017.

Teaching

  • MUSC140: Music Fundamentals I (Adjunct Faculty; Fall 2022, Summer 2023, Fall 2023)

  • PY 710.109: Theory 1 Intensive: Fundamentals, Part-Writing, and Analysis (Faculty Associate; Fall 2017)
    PY 710.211: Theory 3: Baroque Counterpoint (Graduate Assistant; Fall 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021)
    PY 710.212: Theory 4: Studies of Classical and Romantic Styles (Graduate Assistant; Spring 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022)
    PY 710.311: Theory 5: Late Romantic and 20th-Century Musical Practices (Graduate Assistant; Fall 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021)
    PY 710.312: Theory 6: Advanced Harmonization (Graduate Assistant, with full grading and teaching responsibilities; Spring 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022)
    PY 715.119: Ear Training 1 Intensive (Ear Training Fellowship; Fall 2022)
    PY 715.123: Ear Training 1 (Ear Training Fellowship; Fall 2022)
    PY 715.223: Ear Training 3 (Adjunct Faculty; Fall 2023)
    PY 715.224: Ear Training 4 (Adjunct Faculty; Spring 2023)

  • MUSC 132: Theory II: Advanced topics of melody, harmony, counterpoint, and form (Private Instruction; Spring 2015)
    MUSC 232: Theory III: Chromatic Harmony/Form (Guest Lecturer, specific topics upon request; Fall 2014)
    MUSC 338: Analysis of Music Since 1900 (Guest Lecturer, specific topics upon request; Spring 2015)