JUSTIN LONDON is Professor of Music at Carleton College in Northfield, MN, where he teaches courses in Music Theory, The Philosophy of Music, Music Perception and Cognition, and American Popular Music. He received his B.M. degree in Classical Guitar and his M.M. degree in Music Theory from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and he holds a Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked with Leonard Meyer.

His research interests include rhythm and meter, music perception and cognition, the history of the Delta blues, and musical aesthetics. He is the author of several articles in the recent revision of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and the Cambridge History of Western Music Theory. His book, Hearing in Time, (Oxford University Press, 2004) is a cross-cultural exploration of the perception and cognition of musical meter. He is currently involved in joint research on the perception of complex meters with Bruno Repp and Peter Keller, on the perception of anacruses with Ian Cross and Tommi Himberg, and on dynamic systems modelling for complex meters with Edward Large.

Professor London has served on the editorial boards of Music Theory Online and the Music Theory Spectrum, and on the executive board of Music Theory Midwest, the Society for Music Perception and Cognition and The Society for Music Theory . He was co-director of the 2005 Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory on Rhythm and Temporality and in 2005-2006 he was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Music and Science of Cambridge University under the auspices of a Fulbright Foundation grant. In April 2007 he was a Guest Professor at the International Orpheus Academy for Music & Theory (on "Tempo, Meter, Rhythm: Time in Music after 1950") in Ghent, Belgium. He is serving as President of the Society for Music Theory in 2008-2009.

Row Forms in the serial works of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern

Metric Fake Outs--An Excel spreadsheet which lists pop songs with metrically ambiguous openings

Papers available online

Maria is Hopeful--Paper read at the Spring 2000 meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Society for Aesthetics

Hearing Rhythmic Gestures--Keynote Address at the "Music and Gesture" Conference, August 2003

How to Talk About Musical Meter--Colloquium talks given at various UK Universities, Winter and Spring 2006.

Temporal Complexity in Modern and Post-Modern Music--Based on a lecture given at the International Orpheus Academy for Music & Theory, April 2007. (PDF version)

Cognitive and Aesthetic Aspects of Metrical Ambiguity (PDF version).

Professional materials available online

Curriculum Vitae