Lindsey Reymore
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Mail code: 0405Campus: Tempe
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Lindsey Reymore is an assistant professor of Music Theory in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre and co-director of the CACTUS Music Lab at ASU. Her research investigates the role of timbre—the perceptual qualities or characteristics of sound—in musical experience. To study how timbre interacts with meaning, cognition, and musical form, she designs interdisciplinary methodologies, synthesizing approaches from behavioral psychology and signal processing in combination with music analysis. Her research has been published in journals including Frontiers in Psychology, PLOS One, Music Perception, and Musicae Scientiae.
Reymore is an active member of the ACTOR Partnership (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration), a global network of musicians and scientists working on projects related to musical timbre and orchestration. She co-leads the Society for Music Theory Timbre & Orchestration Interest group as well as ACTOR’s Timbre Semantics Working Group. Reymore completed a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University and holds a PhD in Music Theory from The Ohio State University as well as degrees in oboe performance from The University of Texas at Austin (MM) and Vanderbilt University (BMus).
- PhD. Music Theory, Ohio State University, 2020
- MMus. Oboe Performance, The University of Texas at Austin, 2014
- BMus. Oboe Performance, Vanderbilt University, 2012
timbre, orchestration, form, music perception/cognition, semantics, orchestral music, popular music, instrument-specific absolute pitch
Articles
In revision. Reymore, L. An interdisciplinary analysis of “ringtone” by 100 gecs. Music and Science.
In press. Hansen, N.C., & Reymore, L. Timbral cues underlie instrument-specific absolute pitch in expert oboists. PLOS ONE.
In press. Reymore, L. “Computational approaches to instrumentation analysis with Timbre Trait Profiles,” book chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Orchestration Studies.
2024. Shea, N., Reymore L., White, C.W., Duinker, B., VanHandel, L., Zeller, M., & Biamonte, N. Diversity in music corpus studies. Music Theory Online. https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.1.0
2023. Reymore, L., Noble, J., Saitis, C., Traube, C., & Wallmark, Z. Timbre semantic associations vary both between and within instruments: An empirical study incorporating register and pitch height. Music Perception. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2023.40.3.253
2023. Reymore, L. Variations in timbre qualia with register and dynamics in the oboe and French horn. Empirical Musicology Review, 16(2), 231–275. https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v16i2.8005
2022. Reymore, L., Beauvais-Lacasse, E., Smith, B.K., & McAdams, S. Modeling noise-related timbre semantic categories of orchestral instrument sounds with audio features, pitch register, and instrument family. Frontiers in Psychology. 13:796422. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.796422
2021. Reymore, L. Characterizing prototypical musical instrument timbres with Timbre Trait Profiles. Musicae Scientiae. https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649211001523
2021. Hansen, N.C. & Reymore, L. Articulatory motor planning and timbral idiosyncrasies as underlying mechanisms of instrument-specific absolute pitch in expert musicians. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247136
2020. Reymore, L. & Hansen, N.C. A Theory of Instrument-Specific Absolute Pitch. Frontiers in Psychology. 11:560877. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.560877
2020. Reymore, L. & Huron, D. Mapping the cognitive linguistic dimensions of musical instrument timbre. Psychomusicology, 30(3), 124–144. https://doi.org/10.1037/pmu0000263
2020. Warrenburg, L., Reymore, L., & Shanahan, D. The communication of melancholy, grief, and fear in dance with and without music. Human Technology, 16(3), 283–309. https://doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.202011256766
Conference Proceedings
2023. Reymore, L. Timbre as a (de)constructing force in 1000 gecs. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Timbre (Timbre 2023). Thessaloniki, Greece. https://drive.google.com/file/d/14AWI_ZL3LunXhO9DEmGznPAXnpYTKQhm/view
2023. Reymore, L., Duinker, B., Zeller, M., VanHandel, L., Shea, N., White, C.W., Tatar, J., Roth, J., and Biamonte, N. “Encoding and Analyzing the Timbre in Popular Song (TiPS) Corpus,” in 2022 Proceedings of the Music Encoding Conference, ed. Ai Lynn Ang, Jennifer Bain, and David Weigl, 139–144. Humanities Commons. Halifax, Canada.
2021. Albrecht, J., Warrenburg, L., Reymore, L., & Shanahan, D. (Eds.). Proceedings of Future Directions of Music Cognition. Ohio State University Libraries. https://doi.org/10.18061/FDMC.2021.0000
2021. Reymore, L., Beauvais-Lacasse, E., Smith, B.K., & McAdams, S. Navigating noise: Modeling perceptual correlates of noise-related semantic timbre categories with audio features. Proceedings of the 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference. https://archives.ismir.net/ismir2021/paper/000069.pdf
2020. Reymore, L. Timbre Trait Analysis: The semantics of instrumentation. In A. Zacharakis, C. Saitis, & K. Siedenburg (eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Timbre (Timbre 2020). Online conference (Thessaloniki, Greece). pp. 38–41.
2018. Reymore, L. & Huron, D. Identifying the perceptual dimensions of musical instrument timbre. In R. Parncutt & S. Sattmann (eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Graz, Austria: Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz. pp. 372–377.
2018. Reymore, L. Musical affect and embodiment: Fear, threat, and danger in the music of The Lord of the Rings. In R. Parncutt & S. Sattmann (eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Graz, Austria: Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz. pp. 378–383.
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MTC 496 | Theory Project |
MTC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MTC 493 | Honors Thesis |
MTC 221 | Music Theory II |
MTC 584 | Internship |
MTC 790 | Reading and Conference |
MTC 500 | Research Methods |
MTC 591 | Seminar |
MTC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 590 | Reading and Conference |
PSY 598 | Special Topics |
MTC 484 | Internship |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MTC 790 | Reading and Conference |
MTC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 598 | Special Topics |
MTC 500 | Research Methods |
MTC 584 | Internship |
MTC 496 | Theory Project |
MTC 590 | Reading and Conference |
MTC 327 | Form and Analysis I |
MTC 294 | Special Topics |
MTC 484 | Internship |
MTC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MTC 493 | Honors Thesis |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MTC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
MTC 493 | Honors Thesis |
MTC 221 | Music Theory II |
MTC 584 | Internship |
MTC 790 | Reading and Conference |
MTC 500 | Research Methods |
PSY 598 | Special Topics |
MTC 591 | Seminar |
MTC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 590 | Reading and Conference |
MTC 484 | Internship |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MTC 790 | Reading and Conference |
MTC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MTC 520 | Analytical Techniques |
MTC 584 | Internship |
MTC 598 | Special Topics |
MTC 496 | Theory Project |
MTC 590 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MTC 496 | Theory Project |
MTC 221 | Music Theory: 18th Century |
MTC 790 | Reading and Conference |
MTC 591 | Seminar |
MTC 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MTC 222 | Music Theory: 19th Century |
MTC 327 | Intermediate Form and Analysis |
MTC 584 | Internship |