Julian Hook

Julian Hook
Biography
Julian Hook is an American music theorist, mathematician and architect. A true Renaissance man, Hook's scholarship blends the fields of mathematics and music, furthering a tradition that dates back to Pythagoras's discussion of overtones. Hook's research continues to further link math to music, and he is published frequently by scientific and musical journals alike. His article "Uniform Triadic Transformations," published in the Journal of Music Theory, won the Society for Music Theory's Emerging Scholar Award in 2005. In addition to teaching and researching, Hook is the reviews editor of the Journal of Mathematics and Music.
Hook's recent publications include a "Perspective" on mathematical music theory in the journal Science; a survey of applications of group theory in music, published by Princeton University Press in a collection of mathematics essays; an article on the foundations of transformation theory, published in Music Theory Spectrum; a study of the mathematical basis of key signatures and enharmonic equivalence, published in the Journal of Mathematics and Music; the article "Signature Transformations" in the book Music Theory and Mathematics: Chords, Collections, and Transformations, published by the University of Rochester Press; a review article on the new edition of David Lewin's Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations, published in Intégral; a tutorial on combinatorics and enumeration in music theory, published in Music Theory Online; and an article on the 12-tone music of Webern, co-authored with Jack Douthett and published in Perspectives of New Music.
His teachers include John Clough, Eric Isaacson, , Darrell Haile and Mary H. Wennerstrom.
Dr. Hook holds advanced degrees in mathematics, architecture, and piano performance as well as music theory. He has taught mathematics at Florida International University in Miami and music theory at Penn State University. He has also has worked as an architect and structural engineer in Chicago and has performed chamber music on several occasions with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Currently an associate professor of music theory at Indiana University's renowned Jacobs School of Music, Hook is well respected by students. He learns the names of each student in his large lecture classes and refers to them by name.
Education
Ph.D. in Music Theory, Indiana University, 2002
Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic, Princeton University, 1983
M.M. in Piano Performance, Indiana University, 1997
M.Arch. in Architecture, University of Illinois, 1989
Awards
2005 Society for Music Theory's Emerging Scholar Award for his article, "Uniform Triadic Transformations," published in the Journal of Music Theory.
2010-11 American Philosophical Society's Sabbatical Fellowship.
Publication List
"A Note on Interpretations of Many-Sorted Theories." The Journal of Symbolic Logic 50, no. 2 (June, 1985), 372-374.
"Rhythm in the Music of Messiaen: An Algebraic Study and an Application in the "Turangalîla Symphony"." Music Theory Spectrum 20, no. 1 (Spring, 1998), 97-120.
"Response to Vincent P. Benitez." Music Theory Spectrum 21, no. 1 (Spring, 1999), 141-142.
"Uniform Triadic Transformations." Journal of Music Theory 46, no. 1/2 (Spring-Autumn, 2002), 57-126.
"Exploring Musical Space." Science 313, no. 5783 (July, 2006), 49-50.
"Cross-Type Transformations and the Path Consistency Condition." Music Theory Spectrum 29, no. 1 (Spring, 2007), 1-39.

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