JANE PIPER CLENDINNING, Associate Professor of Music Theory, received the Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees from Yale University as a Yale University Fellow. She holds the M.M. degree from North Texas State University and B.M. (music theory) and B.S. (mathematics) degrees from Samford University. Prior to coming to Florida State University in 1990, Professor Clendinning taught at the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, and at Yale.

Professor Clendinning has published articles reflecting her interests in the history of theory, theory and analysis of recent twentieth-century music, computer pitch recognition, and computer applications in music theory. She served as President of Music Theory Southeast, 1994-1996, and as editor for the Society for Music Theory¹s electronic mail listserver, SMT-List, 1995-97. She was treasurer for SMT from 1991-1994.

Dr. Clendinning teaches undergraduate courses in eighteenth-century counterpoint, twentieth-century styles, music since World War II, accelerated music theory, and graduate courses in the history of music theory, atonal analysis, and other topics related to twentieth-century music.