Email:

lstabak@iu.edu

Department:

Music Theory

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Biography

Lina S. Tabak is assistant professor of music in music theory at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

She earned a Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2024, where her dissertation on rhythm and meter in three Colombian folk genres was awarded the 2023 SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship from the Society for Music Theory. She holds a B.M. in music theory and euphonium performance from Florida State University.

Prior to joining the faculty at IU, Tabak taught music theory and aural skills courses at Brooklyn College and New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Her current research explores the relationships between rhythm, perceived meter, and stylistic expertise. Tabak has presented at several national and international conferences, including those of the Society for American Music, Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory, Analytical Approaches to World Music, and Society for Music Theory, where her paper was awarded the 2020 SMT Student Presentation Award. She has published articles and conference reports in Music Theorica and Súmula: Revista de teoría y análisis musical and has an article forthcoming in Music Theory Spectrum.

Tabak served as cochair of the program committee for the 2023 symposium “Theoretical, Analytical, and Cognitive Approaches to Rhythm & Meter in World Musics” and has been an associate editor for the journal Analytical Approaches to World Musics.