Stephen Andrew Taylor

Biography	Assistant Professor, Composition and Theory School of Music University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Music, Writings, and Software
List of Works		Quark Shadows For horn, viola, doublebass and prepared piano, to be premiered November 18, 2001 at the Chicago Symphony's MusicNOW series. Includes a Scorch version of the piece as well as program notes. (6/12/01)
Contact		Translating Unapproachable Light: How Do Composers Write Music? This essay, about a piece I wrote for the American Composers Orchestra in 1995-96, appears in the August 2000 issue of Siblings, the online magazine for Sibelius.
Recent and upcoming performances		Maximum Underground Excerpt for chamber orchestra, created with the scorewriter Sibelius. You can view and listen to it with the Scorch internet plug-in, available free from Sibelius. (1/30/00)
Artworks by Hua Nian (we're married)		Pulse Aria For viola and electronics, premiered June 14, 1998 by Kate Hamilton at Illinois State University. This page explains some of the techniques I used to build the piece.
You can also hear my music at www.mp3.com/StephenTaylor.		Shattering Suns For wind ensemble, composed in 1997. Includes audio excerpts, paintings by Hua Nian, score pages, and program notes.
		SetFinder A JavaScript page which calculates the prime form for any pitch class set (updated 9/17/01).
		Chopin, Pygmies, and Tempo Fugue: Ligeti's 'Automne a Varsovie' This web-based essay, an analysis of Ligeti's Sixth Piano Etude, is published in the May 1997 issue of Music Theory Online.

Course Websites
Music 206	Composition (Fall 2001)
Music 308	Form and Analysis (Fall 2001) Analysis of music composed from 1900-1950.

Last updated 10/04/01 by Stephen Taylor, staylor7@uiuc.edu