About
Anjni Amin (she/her) is a Lecturer at Skidmore College. Her research engages a range of topics, including expressive performance, music theory pedagogy, world music pedagogy, and music education. Her dissertation examines the development of expressive interpretation skills through interaction between performer-pedagogue and student in the collegiate performance studio. She has presented her research at the International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition and the International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music, as well as at meetings of the College Music Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology.Her work dealing with both music theory and world music pedagogy is published in The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy. Prior to her doctoral studies, she earned her B.S. in music education from The College of Saint Rose and her M.M. in music theory from Northwestern. Education
Ph.D. Northwestern University, Music Theory and Cognition (expected 2023)
Provisional Dissertation Title: “Conceptualizing Expressive Musical Performance: A Grounded Theory of Performance and Pedagogy”
M.M. Northwestern University, Music Theory (2014)
B.S. College of Saint Rose, K-12 Music Education (2013) Publications
Amin, A. H. (2020). Hindustani Tāl: Non-Western Explorations of Meter. In L. VanHandel (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy (pp. 78-84). New York: Routledge.
