Nico Schuler

Nico Schüler, Ph.D., is University Distinguished Professor of Music Theory and Musicology at Texas State University and the immediate past-president of the American Musicological Society Southwest Chapter. His main research interests are interdisciplinary aspects of 19th/20th/21st century (world) musics, methodology of music research, computer applications in music research, music theory pedagogy, and music historiography. He is the co-editor of the international research book series Methodology of Music Research, the author and / or editor of 21 books, and the author of more than 120 articles. Dr. Schüler enjoys mentoring students, who over the years have, under his direct supervision, received prestigious scholarships and fellowships, published more than 100 articles and book chapters, and gave more than 150 presentations at regional, national, and international conferences.

EDUCATION

M.A. Musicology with minors in Philosophy and Computer Science, 1995, Greifswald University, Germany; Ph.D. Music Theory, 2000, Michigan State University, USA

RESEARCH INTERESTS

African-American Music, interdisciplinary and intercultural aspects of music from the 19th through the 21st centuries, methodology of music research, digital humanities, rediscovery of underrepresented composers and musicians, music theory pedagogy, and music historiography.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

REDISCOVERING LATE 19TH CENTURY AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC: RECEPTION AND ANALYSIS OF TWO SONGS BY SAM LUCAS (1840-1916)
A Arora, N Schüler
Facta Universitatis, Series: Visual Arts and Music, 039-058 , 2026
2026
Computerunterstützte Musikanalyse
N Schüler
Handbuch Musikanalyse: Pluralität und Methode, 378-390 , 2025
2025
Collaboration without Competition? How intergenerational Collaboration can succeed A transatlantic Case Study from the digital Performance Analysis
A Seibel, A Jakumeit, N Schueler
MUSIKFORSCHUNG 77 (4), 377-383 , 2024
2024
KOLLABORATION OHNE KONKURRENZ? WIE INTERGENERATIONELLE ZUSAMMENARBEIT GELINGEN KANN
A SEIBEL, A JAKUMEIT, N SCHÜLER
MUSIKFORSCHUNG 77 (4), 377-384 , 2024
2024
Leon Stefanija and Rūta Stanevičiūtė (Eds), Microtonal Music in Central and Eastern Europe: Historical Outlines and Current Practices. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Filozofska Fakulteta …
N Schüler
New Sound International Journal of Music 57 (I), 123-126 , 2021
2021
Modern approaches to teaching sight singing and ear training
N Schüler
Facta Universitatis, Series: Visual Arts and Music, 083-092 , 2021
2021
Citations: 16
Otto Laske and the Visualization of Electro‐Acoustic Music: Laske’s Visual Music Animations
N Schüler
Emille: Journal of the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society 18, 61-67 , 2021
2021
Beyond Desmond Dekker and Bob Marley: Rastafarianism in Contemporary Reggae and Reggaetón
N Schüler
2021
How ‘Blue’Are Blue Notes? A Methodological Case Study
N Schüler
2021
Contextuality and Interdisciplinarity in Digital Music Research: History, Current Projects, and A Case Study
N Schüler
Contextuality of Musicology – What, How, Why and Because, 86-96 , 2020
2020
Expressive Timing at the Beginning of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata op. 2 no. 1
N Schüler
Musica Movet: Affectus, Ludus, Corpus, 177-186 , 2020
2020
New Discoveries on African-American Composer Jacob J. Sawyer (1856-1885)
N Schüler
South Central Music Bulletin 17, 23-36 , 2019
2019
Belgrade, II/2019
M Veselinović-Hofman, V Mikić, D Despić, S Marinković, A Kotevska, ...
2019
Belgrade, I/2019
M Veselinović-Hofman, V Mikić, D Despić, S Marinković, A Kotevska, ...
2019
Reflections on Hugo Riemann’s Musik-Lexikon and His Music Historiography
N Schüler
Music Cultures in Sounds, Words and Images: Essays in Honor of Zdravko … , 2018
2018
Current Research Methodologies for Rediscovering Forgotten Composers: Using Commercial Genealogy and Newspaper Databases and Other Online Archives
N Schüler
“MUSIC IN SOCIETY” THE COLLECTION OF PAPERS, 369 , 2018
2018
Citations: 1
A Refereed, Open-Access Journal ISSN 1545-2271 Volume XVI (2017-2018) _
N Schüler, M Graphics, RD Hall, P Conlon, S Davis, K Mooney, D Ninov, ...
2018
Virtual panel discussion
C Walton
New Sound , 2017
2017
ANALYTICAL OBSERVATIONS OF DUALITY IN TIME BY JAMES (JIM) C. SCULLY 1
N Schüler
New Sound: International Journal of Music 50 (2), 189-196 , 2017
2017
Citations: 2
Computer-Assisted Music Analysis Historical Reflections, Recent Approaches, and Common Methods
N Schueler
MUSIKTHEORIE 32 (4), 317-329 , 2017
2017

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Modern approaches to teaching sight singing and ear training
N Schüler
Facta Universitatis, Series: Visual Arts and Music, 083-092 , 2021
2021
Citations: 16
Methods of computer-assisted music analysis: history, classification, and evaluation
NS Schuler
Michigan State University , 2000
2000
Citations: 14
Reflections on the History of Computer-Assisted Music Analysis II: The 1960s
N Schüler
Musicological Annual 42 (1), 5-24 , 2006
2006
Citations: 8
Reflections on the History of Computer-Assisted Music Analysis I: Predecessors and the Beginnings
N Schüler
Musicological Annual 41 (1), 31-43 , 2005
2005
Citations: 8
Musikalische Grammatik und musikalisches Problemlösen: Utrechter Schriften (1970-1974)
OE Laske, N Schüler
(No Title) , 2004
2004
Citations: 8
Erkenntnistheorie, Musikwissenschaft, Künstliche Intelligenz und der Prozeß: Ein Gespräch mit Otto Laske
N Schüler, OE Laske
Dietrich , 1995
1995
Citations: 8
Inferring Chord Sequence Meanings via Lyrics: Process and Evaluation.
T O'Hara, N Schüler, Y Lu, DE Tamir
ISMIR, 463-468 , 2012
2012
Citations: 7
Teaching approaches to music theory in the United States: Towards a stronger undergraduate core curriculum
N Schüler
On Methods of Music Theory and (Ethno-) Musicology: From Interdisciplinary … , 2005
2005
Citations: 7
Computer-applications in music research: concepts, methods, results
N Schüler
(No Title) , 2002
2002
Citations: 7
Otto Laske
N Schüler
Komponisten der Gegenwart, 1-2 , 1997
1997
Citations: 7
Towards a History and Evaluation of Statistical and Information-Theoretical Analysis of Melodic Incipits
N Schüler
Theoria: Historical Aspects of Music Theory 13 (2006), 113-126 , 2006
2006
Citations: 6
On methods of music theory and (ethno-) musicology: from interdisciplinary research to teaching
N Schüler
(No Title) , 2005
2005
Citations: 5
Zu Problemen der'Heroen'-und der'Genie'-Musikgeschichtsschreibung
N Schüler
(No Title) , 1998
1998
Citations: 5
Methoden computerunterstützter Musikanalyse-ein historischer Überblick
N Schüler
Zum Problem und zu Methoden von Musikanalyse, 51-76 , 1996
1996
Citations: 5
Zum Problem und zu Methoden von Musikanalyse
N Schüler
(No Title) , 1996
1996
Citations: 5
Computer-assisted music analysis (1950s-1970s): essays and bibliographies
N Schüler
(No Title) , 2014
2014
Citations: 4
InformationsmaBe in der computergestOtzten Musikanalyse
D Uhrlandt, N SchUler
Kammermusik Heute 2 (1992), 102-112 , 1992
1992
Citations: 4
Rediscovering Forgotten Composers with the Help of Online Genealogy and Music Score Databases: A Case Study on African-American Composer Jacob J. Sawyer (1856–1885)
N Schüler
Musicological Annual 51 (2), 85-97 , 2015
2015
Citations: 3
From music grammar to cognition of music in the 1980s and 1990s: the surplus history of computer-based music analysis
N Schüler
Muzikoloski Zbornik 43 (2), 371 , 2007
2007
Citations: 3
Creative Music Processes as the" Object" of Otto Laske's Cognitive Musicology
NCO SChiiler
2006
Citations: 3