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Department of Music
Timothy Crain
Dr. Timothy M. Crain is an Assistant Professor of Musicology and also the coordinator for the Music Theory, Composition, and History and Literature Division at Indiana State University. He attended the University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point, where he received the Bachelor of Music degree in Music History and Literature in 1992. He subsequently attended the University of Alabama from 1992 to 1995, obtaining the Master of Music in Historical Musicology. His master’s thesis deals with the complex rhythmic motivations in the orchestral music of American composer Charles E. Ives. He also holds the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Historical Musicology from the Florida State University, specializing in American music, music of the eighteenth century, music of the twentieth century, and popular traditions. His dissertation research focused on the early music theater and opera of colonial Charleston, SC. Previous teaching positions were held at the University of Alabama, the Florida State University, Trident Technical College, Charleston, SC, and DePaul University in Chicago, IL.
At Indiana State, Dr. Crain’s teaching experience encompasses a variety of graduate and undergraduate Western music history and music literature courses, a world music course for music majors, in addition to non-music major offerings that illustrate a broad interest in popular (jazz, blues, and rock), traditional, contemporary, Western, and non-Western artistic expressions. He emphasizes a collaborative, inclusive, dynamic, and interdisciplinary teaching style, drawing on the most current scholarly methods and other creative arts to help shed light on various aspects of music. Finally, his teaching extends outside the classroom with the guidance of many students in their independent research efforts, cross-campus learning initiatives, Study Abroad programs, and the guidance of new music students in their early training.
In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Crain serves on several departmental and university committees, coordinates the Convocation Series, and is the faculty co-advisor to Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. He is an active participant in his scholarly discipline, as well. His research interests center on American music (vernacular, sacred, and art music traditions) and musical theater and opera. Dr. Crain also researches music in the eighteenth-century English theater, twentieth-century music, popular musics, and the teaching of music history. His dissertation, “Music in the Colonial Charleston, South Carolina Theater: 1732-1781,” is an interdisciplinary study which deals with an early American music culture and its relation to the musical, theatrical, and literary practices of the English theater. It is currently being revised for publication by the University of South Carolina Press. His continued research of American musical theater has resulted in the inclusion of a chapter on American musico-theatrical performance practice in the book Performance Practice: Issues and Approaches (Steglein Press, 2007). In addition to this work, Dr. Crain’s research of popular musics of the United States and the world has resulted in articles in the Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Another recent publication has been the appearance of the web resources for Douglass Seaton’s music history text, Ideas and Styles in the Western Music Tradition (McGraw-Hill). Finally, he continues to be an active participant in many scholarly societies through the presentation of refereed papers at international, national, and regional conferences for such groups, including the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Society of Early Americanists, and the Southern Chapter of the College Music Society, and the Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society. He is a member of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, the College Music Society, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Society of Early Americanists, the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the South Carolina Historical Society as well as Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Phi Eta Sigma, Pi Kappa Lambda, and Phi Kappa Phi.
Ph.D. Florida State University; M.M. University of Alabama; B.M. University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point.
Office: FA 225
Phone: (812) 237-2792
 E-Mail: tcrain1@isugw.indstate.edu
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