Dr. John Miller

Director, Division of Fine Arts
Email: EJ.Miller@ndsu.edu
Office: 115 Music Education Building
Phone: (701) 231-7932

Degrees:

• Ph.D., Northwestern University (music theory)
• M.M., Northwestern University (music theory)
• B.A., Northwestern University

John Miller is the Director of the Division of Fine Arts and Professor of Music Theory. Before coming to North Dakota State University in 1998, his career included faculty appointments in Music Theory and Music Technology at the University of North Dakota and Northwestern, DePaul, and Eastern Illinois Universities, as well as experience as a commercial composer/arranger in Chicago.

Dr. Miller is active in music’s national accrediting organization, the National Association of Schools of Music, as regional chair, visiting accreditation evaluator, and as an elected member of the Commission on Accreditation. He has served as President of the Board of Directors of the Fargo Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Fargo Moorhead Opera.

His academic specialties include analysis of early music, counterpoint, and pedagogical technology. His published work includes numerous biographical articles for the Encyclopedia Britannica, the co-authorship of computer assisted instruction materials for works from W.W. Norton & Co. and McGraw-Hill, MAPLE (a music computer programming language), the music editorship of Miriam Makeba’s The World of African Song and the co-authorship of Folk Guitar, both from Quadrangle Books/the New York Times.

For more information contact Kay Beckermann , (701) 231-9564
Last Updated: Friday, 26-Oct-2007 16:24:27 CDT
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