Shannon Groskreutz

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Theory

My dedication to excellence in teaching runs deep, and I could not imagine doing anything else with my life. My Stetson students and colleagues tease me lightheartedly about my "Theory I" Florida license plate, but no amount of teasing could diminish the pride I feel as a music theorist, educator at Stetson University, and oboist.

  • PhD, Music Theory, The Florida State University
  • College Teaching Certificate, The Florida State University
  • MM, Music Theory, The Florida State University
  • MM, Oboe Performance, The Florida State University
  • BM, Oboe Performance, DePaul University

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Shannon Groskreutz

Biography

Shannon Groskreutz, PhD is a visiting assistant professor of music theory at Stetson University where she teaches and coordinates courses in music theory, musical style and analysis, aural training and functional keyboard. She has recently guided select music theory, musical style and analysis, and aural training courses through curriculum revisions, including a recent textbook change to the core theory curriculum: A Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony by L. Poundie Burstein and Joseph N. Straus. While she was a graduate student in music theory at Florida State University, she taught music theory and aural training courses as the recipient of a Graduate Teaching Assistantship (2005-07), before being offered a full-time teaching position at Stetson University.

Additionally, Shannon fulfilled the requirements for Florida State University's College Teaching Certificate, awarded alongside her PhD in Music Theory. Shannon is a music reviewer for American Recorder, the Journal of the American Recorder Society. Her music review of Lance Eccles' On the Pavement, a four-movement recorder duet, was published in the Spring 2015 edition, and her music reviews of Rainer Lischka's Gut Aufgelegt (In a Good Mood), a collection of recorder duets, and Tanzlust (The Pleasure of Dancing), a collection of recorder trios, were published in the Fall 2014 edition. She has presented papers at the March 2007 Joint Meeting of the American Musicological Society South Central Chapter, Music Theory Southeast, and the Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter, in addition to the 24th Annual Music Theory Forum at Florida State University held in January 2007.

Shannon has previously earned two Master's degrees in Music Theory and Oboe Performance from Florida State University, and a Bachelor's degree in Oboe Performance (With Highest Honor--the university's equivalent to summa cum laude) from DePaul University in Chicago.

More About Shannon Groskreutz

Areas of Expertise

  • Paradigmatic Analysis
  • Gestural Analysis
  • Narrative Analysis and Musical Meaning
  • The Music of Francis Poulenc
  • Performance and Analysis
  • Oboe Performance

Course Sampling

  • Music Theory
  • Aural Training
  • Functional Keyboard

  • Music and Disability
  • Music Theory Pedagogy
  • Performance and Analysis
  • Paradigmatic Analysis
  • Narrative Analysis and Musical Meaning
  • The Music of Francis Poulenc

Primary Publications

  • Groskreutz, Shannon Sue. "A Paradigmatic and Gestural Approach to Musical Meaning in Francis Poulenc's Sonata for Oboe and Piano." Ph.D. diss., The Florida State University, 2016.
  • Groskreutz, Shannon Sue. Music Review of Lance Eccles' On the Pavement, a four-movement recorder duet, American Recorder, Spring 2015 Edition, p. 40.
  • Groskreutz, Shannon Sue. Music Review of Rainer Lischka's Gut Aufgelegt (In a Good Mood), a collection of recorder duets, and Tanzlust (The Pleasure of Dancing), a collection of recorder trios, American Recorder, Fall 2014 Edition, pp. 44-46.

As Research Assistant

  • Alfonzo, Jesus J. Soggetto Cavato: La Historia y mis Relatos de Los Primeros Cinco Anos de El Sistema. 1st Edition. Jesus Alfonzo, 2015.
  • Shaftel, Matthew. "Sonata Form, Dramatic Subtext, and Musical Irony in the Trio from Le Nozze di Figaro." In Keys to the Drama: Nine Perspectives on Sonata Forms. Edited by Gordon Sly. London: Ashgate Press, 2007.
  • Shaftel, Matthew, primary author, with Christopher Swanson as collaborator. "The Problem with Beautiful Singing." College Music Symposium, Vol. 47 (2007).

Performances/Creative Activity

  • Groskreutz, Shannon. Video Testimonial/Oboe. "OPT Behavioral Health: Shannon." Vimeo video, 7:44. Filmed by Oystercatcher Media, February 19-20, 2019. Posted by Oystercatcher Media, March 1, 2019. Sponsored by Optum.