Jack Crotty
Associate Professor – Music Theory
Coordinator of Music Theory Area
As Associate Professor of Music Theory and Analysis, John Crotty is a specialist in the study of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century music as well as the interaction of texture, rhythm, and pitch. Dr. Crotty received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, where he studied piano with Charles Fisher, composition with Robert Boury, and advanced theory with Ellwood Derr. At the Eastman School of Music, his teachers were Samuel Adler in composition and Robert Bailey in theory. Besides being an active vocal accompanist and composer, Dr. Crotty has published articles in In Theory Only and choral arrangements with Lawson Gould. At West Virginia University, he directs the undergraduate theory program for the freshman level and instructs upper division and graduate analysis courses.