Father McKenzie Music

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Principle author

Condit-Schultz, N. (forthcoming),"Deconstructing the nPVI: A Methodological Critique of the nPVI as Applied to Music," Music Perception
Condit-Schultz, N., Ju Y., & Fujinaga, I. (2018), "Flexible Approach to Automated Harmonic Analysis: Multiple Annotations of Chorales by Bach and Prætorius," Proceedings of the International Society of Music Information Retrieval (Paris, France)
Condit-Schultz, N., & Huron, D. (2017), "Word Intelligibility in Multi-voice Singing: the Influence of Chorus Size," Journal of Voice 31(1), pp. 121.e1–121.e8
Condit-Schultz, N. (2018), "the Musical Corpus of Flow: a Digital Corpus of Rap Transcriptions," Empirical Musicology Review 11(2), pp. 124–146
Condit-Schultz, N., & Huron, D. (2015), "Catching the Lyrics: Intelligibility in Twelve Song Genres," Music Perception 32(5), pp. 470–483

Secondary author

Ju, Y., Condit-Schultz, N., Arthur C., & Fujinaga, I. (2017),"Non-chord Tone Identification Using Deep Neural Networks," Proceedings of 4th International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (Shanghai, China)
Devaney, J., Arthur, C., Condit-Schultz, N., & Nisula, K. (2015), "Theme And Variation Encodings with Roman Numerals (TAVERN): A new data set for symbolic music analysis," Proceedings of the International Society of Music Information Retrieval (Malága, Spain), pp. 728–734

For more detail, check out my curriculum vitae.

Research

As a researcher, I combine humanistic and scientific methodologies in the study of music. Specifically, I engage in computational modeling of symbolic music data and behavioral experimentation with human participants. The questions and ideas I explore are all grounded in, informed by, and evaluated in light of, fundamentally humanistic music theory.

Music

I am an active musician and composer. As a guitarist, bassist, and drummer/percussionist, I play a variety of musics, mostly American vernacular music (rock, pop, hip-hop) and world music—I am also a trained classical guitarist. As a composer, I synthesize common-practice, popular, and world musics, especially focusing on sophisticated rhythm and tempo relationships, inspired by Indonesian Gamelan music.

Pedagogy

I've had the pleasure of music at four different universities, and with K-12 kids in afterschool classes and private lessons. I've taught entire music theory curricula, classes in music technology and music cognition,, and rock/pop music performance. I also love to teach scientific research methodologies, especially statistics, and programming.