Nico Schuler

@txst.edu

University Distinguished Professor of Music Theory and Musicology, School of Music
Texas State University



                       

https://researchid.co/nicopauling

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.

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Scholar Citations

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RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Leon Stefanija and Rūta Stanevičiūtė (Eds), Microtonal Music in Central and Eastern Europe: Historical Outlines and Current Practices. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Filozofska Fakulteta
    N Schler
    New Sound International Journal of Music 57 (I), 123-126 2021

  • Modern approaches to teaching sight singing and ear training
    N Schler
    Facta Universitatis, Series: Visual Arts and Music, 083-092 2021

  • Otto Laske and the Visualization of Electro‐Acoustic Music: Laske’s Visual Music Animations
    N Schler
    Emille: Journal of the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society 18, 61-67 2021

  • Beyond Desmond Dekker and Bob Marley: Rastafarianism in Contemporary Reggae and Reggaetn
    N Schler
    2021

  • How ‘Blue’Are Blue Notes? A Methodological Case Study
    N Schler
    2021

  • Contextuality and Interdisciplinarity in Digital Music Research: History, Current Projects, and A Case Study
    N Schler
    Contextuality of Musicology – What, How, Why and Because, 86-96 2020

  • Expressive Timing at the Beginning of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata op. 2 no. 1
    N Schler
    Musica Movet: Affectus, Ludus, Corpus, 177-186 2020

  • New Discoveries on African-American Composer Jacob J. Sawyer (1856-1885)
    N Schler
    South Central Music Bulletin 17, 23-36 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 Schler
    Music Cultures in Sounds, Words and Images: Essays in Honor of Zdravko 2018

  • Current Research Methodologies for Rediscovering Forgotten Composers: Using Commercial Genealogy and Newspaper Databases and Other Online Archives
    N Schler
    ''Music in Society''The Collection of Papers 2018

  • A Refereed, Open-Access Journal ISSN 1545-2271 Volume XVI (2017-2018) _
    N Schler, M Graphics, RD Hall, P Conlon, S Davis, K Mooney, D Ninov, ...
    2018

  • Virtual panel discussion
    C Walton, N Schler, M Cobussen
    New Sound-International Journal of Music, 17-23 2017

  • Analytical observations of'Duality in Time'by James (Jim) C. Scully
    N Schler
    New Sound-International Journal of Music, 189-196 2017

  • Computer-Assisted Music Analysis Historical Reflections, Recent Approaches, and Common Methods
    N Schueler
    MUSIKTHEORIE 32 (4), 317-329 2017

  • 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 Schler
    Musicological Annual 51 (2), 85-97 2015

  • CHAPTER FIVE TECHNOLOGY AS A TOOL TO ENHANCE SIGHT SINGING EDUCATION NICO SCHLER1
    SS EDUCATION, N SCHLER
    Music and Technologies, 73 2014

  • Computer-assisted music analysis (1950s-1970s): essays and bibliographies
    N Schler
    (No Title) 2014

  • Vesna Mikić, Ivana Perković, Tijana Popović Mlađenović, and Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman (eds.): Between Nostalgia, Utopia, and Realities, University of Arts in Belgrade
    N Schler
    New Sound-International Journal of Music, 168-170 2013

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Methods of computer-assisted music analysis: history, classification, and evaluation
    NS Schuler
    Michigan State University 2000
    Citations: 13

  • Musikalische Grammatik und musikalisches Problemlsen: Utrechter Schriften (1970-1974)
    OE Laske, N Schler
    (No Title) 2004
    Citations: 8

  • Erkenntnistheorie, musikwissenschaft, knstliche intelligenz und der proze: ein gesprch mit Otto Laske
    N Schler, OE Laske
    Dietrich 1995
    Citations: 8

  • Inferring Chord Sequence Meanings via Lyrics: Process and Evaluation.
    T O'Hara, N Schler, Y Lu, DE Tamir
    ISMIR, 463-468 2012
    Citations: 7

  • Teaching approaches to music theory in the United States: Towards a stronger undergraduate core curriculum
    N Schler
    On Methods of Music Theory and (Ethno-) Musicology: From Interdisciplinary 2005
    Citations: 7

  • Otto Laske
    N Schler
    Komponisten der Gegenwart, 1-2 1997
    Citations: 7

  • Reflections on the History of Computer-Assisted Music Analysis I: Predecessors and the Beginnings
    N Schler
    Musicological Annual 41 (1), 31-43 2005
    Citations: 6

  • Computer-applications in music research: concepts, methods, results
    N Schler
    (No Title) 2002
    Citations: 6

  • Zum Problem und zu Methoden von Musikanalyse
    N Schler
    (No Title) 1996
    Citations: 6

  • Modern approaches to teaching sight singing and ear training
    N Schler
    Facta Universitatis, Series: Visual Arts and Music, 083-092 2021
    Citations: 5

  • Reflections on the History of Computer-Assisted Music Analysis II: The 1960s
    N Schler
    Musicological Annual 42 (1), 5-24 2006
    Citations: 5

  • Towards a History and Evaluation of Statistical and Information-Theoretical Analysis of Melodic Incipits
    N Schler
    Theoria: Historical Aspects of Music Theory 13 (2006), 113-126 2006
    Citations: 5

  • Methoden computeruntersttzter Musikanalyse-ein historischer berblick
    N Schler
    Zum Problem und zu Methoden von Musikanalyse, 51-76 1996
    Citations: 5

  • From music grammar to cognition of music in the 1980s and 1990s: the surplus history of computer-based music analysis
    N Schler
    Muzikoloski Zbornik 43 (2), 371 2007
    Citations: 4

  • On methods of music theory and (ethno-) musicology: from interdisciplinary research to teaching
    N Schler
    (No Title) 2005
    Citations: 4

  • InformationsmaBe in der computergestOtzten Musikanalyse
    D Uhrlandt, N SchUler
    Kammermusik Heute 2 (1992), 102-112 1992
    Citations: 4

  • Creative Music Processes as the ‘Object’of Otto Laske’s Cognitive Musicology
    N Schler
    Principles of Music Composing: Creative Processes, 148-154 2006
    Citations: 3

  • Towards a Methodological Globalization of Teaching Music and of Music Research (From a World Music Perspective)”, Musicology and Globalization, ed. by The Musicological Society
    N Schler
    Tokyo: Academia Music, 498-502 2004
    Citations: 3

  • Zu Problemen der'Heroen'-und der'Genie'-Musikgeschichtsschreibung
    N Schler
    (No Title) 1998
    Citations: 3

  • Festschrift Kurt Schwaen zum 85. Geburtstag
    E Ochs, K Schwaen, N Schler
    Greifswalder Beitrge zur Musikwissenschaft 1 1995
    Citations: 3