Titles and Organizations
Director of MUSIC THEORY, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA
Contact Information
Phone: 703-993-6272
Phone 2: Fax 703-993-1394
Campus: Fairfax
Building: de Laski Performing Arts Bldg
Room A421
Mail Stop: 3E3
Email: mlavengo@gmu.edu
Phone 2: Fax 703-993-1394
Campus: Fairfax
Building: de Laski Performing Arts Bldg
Room A421
Mail Stop: 3E3
Email: mlavengo@gmu.edu
Biography
Dr. Megan Lavengood (Ph.D. City University of New York, 2017) is a music theorist specializing in popular music, timbre, the 1980s, synthesizers, and Schenkerian analysis. Her dissertation establishes a new approach to the analysis of timbre. She has presented her research nationally and abroad, at meetings for the Society of Music Theory, Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, Music Theory Southeast, and others. She has recently taught music theory at Brooklyn College, CUNY and writing skills at Medgar Evers College, CUNY. Prof. Lavengood is also an active performer, and sings soprano in two choruses dedicated to Renaissance sacred polyphony.
Assistant Professor
- Music Theory
Degrees
- PhD (Music Theory), City University of New York (2017)
- MM (Music Theory), The Florida State University (2012)
- BM (Music Theory), Ohio University (2010)