Jason Yust

Jason Yust has taught music theory at Boston University since 2011. He earned his BA in Music at Brown University and his PhD in Music Theory at the University of Washington in 2006 under the direction of John Rahn. He is the current co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mathematics and Music, an associate editor of Perspectives of New Music. He has served on the editorial board of Music Theory Onlineand in various capacities for the Society for Music Theory, the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music, the New England Conference of Music Theorists, and the Northeast Music Cognition Group, and is founder and former chair of the Society for Music Theory’s Mathematics of Music Analysis interest group.  His work addresses a range of topics, from mathematical theories of rhythm and harmonic spaces to Schenkerian theory and eighteenth-century form to music perception and scale theory.

Jason’s articles have appeared in the Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Spectrum, Music Theory Online, Music Analysis, Journal of New Music Research, the Journal of Mathematics and Music and elsewhere, and he has presented at the Society for Music Theory, the International Conference for Mathematics and Computation in Music, the American Mathematical Society, the New Beethoven Research Conference, the International Society for Music Perception and Cognition, the Society for Eighteenth Century Music, and numerous other regional music theory meetings, international conferences, and symposia. His 2018 book, Organized Time: Rhythm, Tonality, and Form, was the winner of the Society for Music Theory’s prestigious Wallace Berry Award in 2019.

For more on Yust, visit www.sites.bu.edu/jyust

Publications

Organized Time: Rhythm, Tonality, and Form

Awards

Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music Theory