About the Author

Mark Andrew Cook

Mark Andrew Cook serves as Director for Music Theory
and Composition at Shepherd University. He is also a
member of the Jazz Studies Faculty. Prior to his
appointment at Shepherd, he served as a member of the
Music Theory Faculty and was the Jazz Ensemble
Director at The Catholic University of America.
Additionally, he served as an Adjunct Music Theory
Instructor at Towson University. He also taught Music Theory, Jazz Studies, History
and Applied subjects at Montgomery College. He served as the Director of Jazz
Ensembles and Wind Ensemble, and as Music Director and Conductor for The
Montgomery College Symphony Orchestra. In addition to teaching at Shepherd
University, Dr. Cook is Guest Lecturer in Music Theory and Composition at The
Barbara Ingram School for the Arts.

He received his B.M.ed. from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University,
and both his Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Music Theory from The Catholic
University of America, his dissertation being an analysis (proportional organization
and set analysis) of Paul Hindemith’s symphony

Die Harmonie der Welt

.

He is an active composer and performer in both the Classical and Jazz styles and has
many performing and recording credits.

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