Matthew Santa
Matthew Santa is Associate Professor and chair of the Music Theory and Composition Area at the Texas Tech University School
of Music. Dr. Santa has taught music theory at Queens College and Hunter College and holds degrees from Louisiana State University
and The City University of New York. He has presented papers on post-tonal analysis, diatonic set theory, parsimonious voice
leading, and popular music throughout the United States as well as in Canada and England, participating in the annual meetings
of the Society for Music Theory, the College Music Society, the Music Theory Society of New York State, the New England
Conference of Music Theorists, Music Theory Midwest, the Texas Society for Music Theory, the South Central Society for Music
Theory, and the Goldsmith 20th-Century Music Conference. Dr. Santa’s articles have been published in the journals
Theory and Practice, Music Theory Spectrum, Music Analysis, The Annual Review of Jazz Studies,
and The Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy. He collaborated with Dr. Lisa Garner Santa and Dr. Thomas Hughes to write
Flute/Theory Workout (24 Keys, 2003), a series of technical exercises for the flute with MIDI accompaniment that the
teaching of music fundamentals at the same time. His recent textbook publication, Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and
Without the Score (Routledge, 2010) is the first book on musical forms to come with a workbook and anthology accompanied by
sound recordings. His works as a composer are published by Conners Publications and his song cycle, From Noon to Starry Night,
was recently recorded by Lisa Garner Santa and Lora Deahl (available online at www.cdbaby.com
and www.amazon.com).
To contact Dr. Matthew Santa, email matthew.santa@ttu.edu.