Eric McKee

Eric McKee teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Music Theory. He holds a BM and MM in violin performance from West Virginia University and an MA and PhD in music theory from the University of Michigan.

His research interests include dance/music relations in dances of the 19th and 19th centuries, topic theory, and film music.

His books include Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz: A Study of Dance-Music Relations in 3/4 Time (2011) and Sight Singing Complete (co-author, 2015). His articles have appeared in Music Analysis, Music Theory Spectrum, Theory and Practice, and College Music Symposium and as book chapters in Chopin and His World 2017), The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory (2014), and The Age of Chopin (2004).

• Music Theory

• Center for Pedagogy in Arts and Design’s Distinguished Teaching Award
• Sustainability Faculty Teaching Fellow

• Program Chair of the Society of Music Theory National Conference

• Faculty Scholar of the Humanities Institute (Penn State)

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

• Society of Music Theory National Conference
• Music and Moving Image XVI

• Max Steiner Symposium

• Association Répertoire International D’Iconographie Musicale: Music and Dance in Visual Culture

• European Music Analysis Conference

BOOKS

• Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz: A Study of Dance-Music Relations in 3/4 Time Eric J. McKee Much music was written for the two most important dances of the 18th and 19th centuries, the minuet and the waltz. In Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz, Eric McKee argues that to better understand the musical structures and expressive meanings of this dance music, one must be aware of the social contexts and bodily rhythms of the social dances upon which it is based. ISBN-13: 9780253356925 Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Sight Singing Complete, 8th ed. Maureen Carr, Bruce Benward with Taylor Greer, Eric McKee, and Phillip Torbert McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2014

• Research Gate