Caitlin Martinkus

Caitlin Martinkus is a music theorist who also plays french horn and piano. Caitlin holds a PhD in music theory from the University of Toronto, as well as an MA in music theory pedagogy and BA in french horn performance from the Eastman School of Music. Her research interests include musical form in the nineteenth century, historical and contemporaneous theories of musical form, and the music of Franz Schubert.

Caitlin has presented at both the national and international level and her publications have appeared in Music Theory and Analysis, Music Theory Online, Theory and Practice, and Music Analysis, with work forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Musical Variation and in an edited collection on the nineteenth-century violin concerto with Cambridge University Press. Caitlin is an affiliate of the Centre for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Music at the University of Toronto and a founding member of Open the Gates – a research collective centering issues of access and inclusion in tabletop roleplaying games.

• PhD in Music Theory, The University of Toronto
• MA in Music Theory Pedagogy, The Eastman School of Music
• BA in Applied Music (french horn performance), The Eastman School of Music
• BA in Music Theory, The Eastman School of Music

• DEI Excellence Award from the College of Art and Architecture at Virginia Tech (along with Christopher Campo-Bowen, Scott Hanenberg, and Elizabeth McLain)

• “Variations In/On Sonata Form.” In The Oxford Handbook of Musical Variation, ed. Jeff Swinkin (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
• “Recapitulation as Process: Some Nineteenth-Century Recapitulatory Strategies” with Music Analysis (2025).
• Review of Journeys Through Galant Expositions, by L. Poundie Burstein. Oxford University Press, 2020 and How Sonata Forms: A Bottom-Up Approach to Musical Form, by Yoel Greenberg. Oxford University Press, 2022. Theory and Practice (2024).
• “Schubert’s Large-Scale Sentences: Exploring the Function of Repetition in Schubert’s First-Movement Sonata Forms.” Music Theory Online 27, no. 3 (2021)
• “Elements of Variation in the First Movement of Schubert’s C-Major Symphony, D. 944/i.” Music Theory & Analysis 5, no. 2 (2018): 190–202.

• SMT-Pod Editorial board member; affiliate of the Centre for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Music; member of the Society for Music Theory