Alyssa Barna

she/her

Music

100 Ferguson Hall

2106 4th St S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Assistant Professor Theory,

Educational Background

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Educational Background

Publications

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Barna, Alyssa. "Writing (Re)Considered." Music Theory Spectrum 47 (1) (2025).
Barna, Alyssa, edited by Christa Anne Bentley, Kate Galloway, and Paula Clare Harper. Revision, Extension, and Repetition: Analyzing Taylor Swift’s "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)". Routledge, 2025.
Barna, Alyssa, Caroline McLaughlin. "Vocal Production, Mimesis, and Social Media in Bedroom Pop." Music Theory Online 34 (4) (2024).
Barna, Alyssa. "“Duet Me”: Music Theory Pedagogy in the Age of Social Media." Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 38 (2024): 21–44.
Barna, Alyssa. "The Dance Chorus in Recent Top-40 Music." SMT-V 6 (2020).
Barna, Alyssa. "Review of Drew Nobile, Form as Harmony in Rock Music, (Oxford, 2020)." Music Theory Online 28 (1) (2022).
Barna, Alyssa, Sam Reenan. "Graduate Instructor Peer Observation in Music Theory Pedagogy." Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 34 (2020).
Barna, Alyssa. "Music Theory and Mainstream Digital Journalism." The Oxford Handbook of Public Music Theory, ed. by J. Daniel Jenkins (2022).

Awards

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Society for Music Theory, Public-Facing Scholarship Award, "The Public-Facing Scholarship Award is given to publications in all professional and popular media that advance the public’s knowledge and appreciation of music theory." Awarded for “The Dance Chorus in Recent Top-40 Music” , SMT-V 6, no. 4 (2020).

Courses

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