Sheet music by Zachary Wallmark

Zachary Wallmark received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2014. Working at the intersection of the cognitive sciencesand musicology, Wallmark’s research seeks to account for the role of musical timbre (or “tone”) in emotional response and aesthetic judgment, particularly in the context of post-1945 American popular music and jazz. His work has been published in musicological and scientific journals and books, including Ethnomusicology Review, Music Perception, Psychology of Music, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, The Dutch Journal of Music Theory, Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity (Duke, 2016), andThe Oxford Handbook of Timbre (Oxford, in press). His co-edited volume, The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music, was published in 2018 (Oxford). He is currently working on a monograph under contract with Oxford University Press. Wallmark’s research has been supported by the NEH and the SSHRC (Canada). In addition to his position as assistant professor of musicology at SMU Meadows, Wallmark holds a courtesy appointment in SMU Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences as assistant professor of psychology.