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Kyle Hutchinson

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music

Department/Office Information

Music
  • M 11:10am - 1:00pm (Charles Dana Arts Center)
  • W 11:10am - 12:10pm (Charles Dana Arts Center)
  • R 9:40am - 10:05am (Charles Dana Arts Center)

Kyle鈥檚 research interests include the psychoacoustics of chromatic tonality in the music of composers such as Richard Strauss, both Gustav and Alma Mahler, and Florence Price. He is also interested in intersections of analysis and ethnography in Price鈥檚 music, theorizing the role of melody in form-functional theory, and intersections of narrative and musical structure in Broadway musicals.

Kyle鈥檚 first monograph, titled Processual Tonality and the Psychoacoustics of Chromaticism, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press, and his research has been published in leading journals in both North America and internationally.  He is currently working on several other book projects, including an edited volume on contemporary approaches to chromatic harmony, and two further monographs: one on the instrumental music of Florence Price, the other on musical structure in contemporary Broadway musicals.

Kyle's article 鈥淐hromatically Altered Diminished-Seventh Chords鈥 (published in Music Analysis) was the recipient of the Society for Music Theory鈥檚 2024 Emerging Scholar Award, and his work on chromatic harmony has also received the Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award from the Music Theory Society of New York State in 2020, and the George Proctor Prize from the Canadian University Music Society in 2018. Kyle has also received the University of Toronto faculty of music鈥檚 award for outstanding Teaching Assistant in 2017, and an award for distinguished service to the faculty of music in 2020.

Kyle is currently co-editor of the journal Theory and Practice,  a member of the Publication Awards Committee (books) for the Society for Music Theory, and he served on the 2023-2024 program committee, and as a Board member, for the Music Theory Society of New York State.

  • Chromatic Harmony, Models of Pitch Relationships, and Tonal/Formal Structure in Early-to-mid Twentieth-Century Tonal Music (Richard Strauss, Alma Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Florence Price)
  • Psychoacoustics and Phenomenology of Tonality and Querying Eighteenth-Century Tonal Models
  • Theories of Formal Functions and the Role of Melodic Structure
  • Tonal Structure, Syntax, and Narrative in Contemporary Broadway Musicals
  • Intersections of Analysis, Ethnography, and Intertextuality in the music of Florence Price

Books

Processual Tonality and the Psychoacoustics of Chromaticism. Forthcoming. Oxford University Press.

Articles

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tonal Structure in Musical Theatre: Plagal and Authentic Conflict in Jesus Christ Superstar.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Music Theory (forthcoming).

鈥.鈥 Int茅gral: The Journal of Applied Musical Thought 36 (2023): 163鈥174.

鈥.鈥 Music Theory Spectrum 45/1 (2023): 20鈥41.

鈥.鈥 Co-authored with Matthew Poon. Music Theory Online 28/2 (2022).

鈥.鈥 Music Analysis 41/1 (2022): 94鈥144.

鈥.鈥 Music Theory Online 26/2 (2020).

鈥淐hasing a Chimera: Challenging the Myths of Augmented-Sixth Chords.鈥 Theory and Practice 45 (2020): 93鈥126.

鈥淔rom a Certain Point of View: Learning to Hear Consonance as Dissonance in Late Nineteenth-Century Tonality.鈥 Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award. Theory and Practice 45 (2020): 127-152.

2024 Society for Music Theory Emerging Scholar Award (Article), for 鈥淐hromatically Altered Diminished-Seventh Chords: Reframing Function Through Dissonance Resolution in Late Nineteenth-Century Tonality鈥 (published in Music Analysis)

Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, Music Theory Society of New York State (2020)

Award to an Individual for Distinguished Service to the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto Faculty of Music Undergraduate Association (2020)

George Proctor Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, Canadian University Music Society (2018)

Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Toronto Center for Teaching Excellence (One of twelve TAs shortlisted university-wide, 2017)

Faculty of Music Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Toronto (2016)

Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto (2018, 2015)

  • 鈥淭he Psychoacoustics of Chromatic Tonality in Phenomenological and Retrospective Spaces: A Dialogue,鈥 Society for Music Theory, Jacksonville FL, Nov. 7-10, 2024. 
  • 鈥淧lagal and Authentic Conflict as Tonal and Narrative Structure in Jesus Christ Superstar,鈥 Society for Music Theory, Denver CO, Nov. 8鈥12, 2023. Also given at Music Theory Society of New York State, New York, NY, April 1鈥2 2023.
  • "Outlander(s): Interpreting Twentieth-Century Dissonance in Nineteenth-Century Contexts,鈥 Society for Music Theory, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 10鈥13, 2022. Also given at Music Theory Midwest Annual Conference, Kansas City, KS, May 5鈥6, 2022; Music Theory Society of New York State, Rochester, NY, April 9鈥10, 2022.
  • 鈥淏lack Narratives in the White Racial Frame: Dialogue, Persistence, and Structure in Florence Price鈥檚 Piano Sonata in E Minor,鈥 Society for Music Theory, Jacksonville, Fl., November 4鈥7, 2021 (online). Also given at the Canadian University Music Society, Online, May 31鈥揓une 4, 2021; South Central Society for Music Theory, Online, Feb. 19鈥21, 2021.
  • 鈥淧rocessual vs. Prospective Tonality in Late Nineteenth Century Harmonic Syntax,鈥 Music Theory Midwest, Online, June 10鈥13 2021.
  • 鈥淩ichard Strauss鈥檚 Processual Tonality: Modernism and the Case of the Dissonant Sixth,鈥 The 21st Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music. Vancouver, B.C. Canada, June 18鈥20, 2020 (paper accepted, conference cancelled owing to COVID-19); Canadian University Music Society, London ON, June 3鈥5, 2020 (paper accepted, conference cancelled owing to COVID-19).
  • 鈥淔rom A Certain Point of View: Learning to Hear Consonance as Dissonance in Late Nineteenth-Century Tonality,鈥 Music Theory Society of New York State, Online, April 4鈥5, 2020.
  • 鈥淐hasing a Chimera: Challenging the Myth of Augmented-Sixth Chords,鈥 Music Theory Society of New York State, Albany, NY, April 6鈥7, 2019. Also read at Music Theory Midwest, Cincinnati OH, May 10鈥11, 2019
  • 鈥淢usic Theory, Musicology, and Cultural Hermeneutics: Revisiting the Salome Complex from an Analytic Vista,鈥 Canadian University Music Society, Vancouver, BC, June 5鈥7, 2019
  • 鈥淭ristan, Liszt, and Till Eulenspiegel: Chromatically Altered Diminished-Seventh Chords and Half Enharmonic Polysemy in Late Nineteenth-Century Harmonic Syntax,鈥 Canadian University Music Society, Edmonton, AB, May 23鈥25, 2018
  • 鈥淪trauss and the Supertonic: Integrating Thoroughbass Approaches with Conventional Tonal Theory in Late Nineteenth-Century Harmonic Analysis,鈥 Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, Wayne, NJ, March 23鈥24, 2018.
  • 鈥淪tatic Tonal and Formal Structures as Depictions of Memory and Psychosis in Andrew Lloyd Webber鈥檚 Sunset Boulevard,鈥 Western University Graduate Symposium on Music, Western University, August 25鈥26, 2017
  • 鈥淲hen is a Triad not a Triad?鈥 Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, Washington DC, March 24鈥25, 2017. Also read at the Canadian University Music Society, University of Calgary, June 1鈥3, 2017.

  • 鈥淔lorence Price: Piano Sonata in E minor.鈥 Lecture-Recital for the University of Toronto Faculty of Music Anti-Racist Alliance BIPOC Benefit Concert (2021).
  • Pre-Opera Talks for the Canadian Opera Company: Toronto, ON, 2019鈥2021. (Elektra, La Boh猫me, Turandot, Der fliegende Holl盲nder, K谩钮a Kabanov谩<).
  • Pre-Show Talks, Mamma Mia! Victoria College Drama Society: Toronto, ON. March 7鈥9, 2019.