Beth Hiser
Assistant Professor of Music Theory
Ph.D., M.M., The University of Texas at Austin
B.M., The University of Florida
Dr. Hiser has taught Musicianship, Structure of Tonal Music, and Ear Training and Sight-Singing at the University of Texas. She currently teaches Harmony and Solfège at Baldwin-Wallace College. Her dissertation is entitled “Genre and Gesture: Robert Schumann’s Piano Music for and about Children.” Dr. Hiser presented some of her work on gestures in Schumann’s music at an international symposium and music festival in 2006. Her research interests include pedagogy, linear analysis, atonal analysis, Romantic aesthetics, world music, and pop music.
Email: bhiser@bw.edu.

