Janet Bourne

Janet Bourne is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara and founder of the UC Santa Barbara Music Cognition Lab. Her research interests include analogy, metaphor and music, cognition behind listening, modes of listening, topic theory, schema theory, narrative and associations, music theory pedagogy and representations of gender and race in film music. She has publications in Music Theory Online, Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening, Music Analysis...See more

Janet Bourne is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara and founder of the UC Santa Barbara Music Cognition Lab. Her research interests include analogy, metaphor and music, cognition behind listening, modes of listening, topic theory, schema theory, narrative and associations, music theory pedagogy and representations of gender and race in film music. She has publications in Music Theory Online, Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening, Music Analysis and Film: Studying the Score, Norton Guide to Teaching Music Theory, Frontiers in Neuroscience , among others. She lives in Orcutt, CA with her husband and son. See less