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Timothy Pack
(541) 346-3731

Tim S. Pack has been an instructor of music theory at the University of Oregon since fall, 2005. He received a B.A. in music from Huntingdon College in 1993, an M.M. in composition from Westminster Choir College of Rider University in 1998, and a Ph.D. in music theory from Indiana University in 2005. His dissertation, titled "Axial-Tenor Composition in the Renaissance," examines formal and temporal organization, cantus-firmus placement and text usage, motivic development, harmony, voice ranges and functions, and cleffing in five-voice tenor motets and masses of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Pack has given several presentations on axial-tenor music and Franco-Flemish polyphony at scholarly conferences in the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, and Wales. He has also been invited to serve as co-editor of Philippe de Monte and His Time (2008) and Jacob Obrecht and His Time (2008).

In addition to his interests in music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Pack has also done research on the music of Olivier Messiaen and has been invited to give a lecture at the First International Conference of Messiaen Studies in Australia (2008).

Pack has won several awards and prizes, including the John Ness Beck Foundation Scholarship and Composition Award, and remains active in recording, composing, and performing (piano, tuba, organ, and keyboard). He has prepared editions of sixteenth-century motets, which have received premiere performances and recordings in the United States, Europe, and Australia.

Before coming to the University of Oregon, Pack taught music theory at Oklahoma City University and Indiana University.