Noel Painter
Associate Dean and Director of Music Theory
Noel Painter, associate dean of the School of Music at Stetson University, is an associate professor of music and director of the music theory program. While at Stetson University, he has compiled supplemental listening material for all aural training courses with recordings from a wide variety of vocal, chamber and ensemble literature excerpts. In addition, Painter and other faculty members have created and edited a series of text books for the creatively redesigned functional keyboard curriculum.
In 2009, Painter was awarded the William Hugh McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award, first presented in 1975, is the most prestigious honor given to a Stetson University faculty member at the DeLand campus and represents excellence in both teaching and scholarship. Michael King, the 2008 winner, described Painter as "an amazing teacher who has been consistently lauded as one of Stetson University's best. His students are driven by his high standards and expectations, are inspired by his enthusiasm for his subject and for teaching, and are impressed by his ability to ensure that everyone in his classes is learning... One of his students even described him as the 'jewel in the crown of the Stetson Universityfaculty.'" Painter is only the fourth music faculty member to be awarded the McEniry in the 34 years that the award has been given.
Education
- Ph.D., music theory, Eastman School of Music, 2000
- M.M., percussion performance, Eastman School of Music, 1994
- M.A., music theory, Eastman School of Music, 1993
- B.M., music theory, Furman University, 1991
Course Topics
- Music Culture
- Musical Style and Analysis
- Aural Training
- Functional Keyboard
- Orchestration and Arranging
- Music Theory III
- Theories of Contemporary Music
- Advanced Analytical Techniques
Research Interests
- Course development in macro music analysis education
- Combination of contour analysis and transformation networks to show large scale connections in the multiple percussion literature of the 20th century
- Twentieth century tonal systems and aural training pedagogy
