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Douglas Rust

Dr. Douglas Rust

Associate Professor

Bio

Dr. Douglas Rust (Ph.D., Yale University, 1995), is an Associate Professor at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½. He held previous appointments at Centenary College of Louisiana, Southwestern University and Texas A & M University.

His research interests include twentieth-century concert music and jazz. He has published in Music Theory Spectrum, the Musical Quarterly, Current Musicology, Perspectives of New Music, Gamut, Elliott Carter Studies Online, Sound American, Soundboard and The American Organist (with performing editions published by Hal Leonard and Masters Music/Kalmus).

He plays organ for silent films.

  • PHD - Yale University (1995)
  • Jazz Piano (BM) - University of North Texas (1989)

Graduate music theory seminars, form, counterpoint and the undergraduate music theory and ear-training curriculum.

  • Narrative Strategies in Daphne Oram’s Pulse Persephone., Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers,
  • A Kinetic Projection of Ideas: Rhythm and Phrasing in Elliott Carter’s Piano Sonata, Elliott Carter Studies Online, 2017
  • A Russian Rhetoric of Form in the Music of Witold LutosÅ‚awski, A Music-Theoretical Matrix: Essays in Honor of Allen Forte (Part II), Gamut, 2010
  • Two Questions of Perception in LutosÅ‚awski's Second Symphony, Perspectives of New Music, 2004
  • Conversation with Witold LutosÅ‚awski, The Musical Quarterly, 1995
  • Stravinsky's Twelve-Tone Loom: Precomposition and Composition in Movements, Music Theory Spectrum, 1994
  • Society for Music Theory
  • South-Central Society for Music Theory
  • American Guild of Organists
  • English (Native or Bilingual)
  • Spanish (Limited Working)
  • German (Limited Working)

Contact Me

Marsh Hall - Fine Arts Building (FAB) 212a

Hattiesburg

Email
Douglas.RustFREEMississippi

Phone
601.266.5126

Areas of Expertise

Music Theory