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Dr. Rusty Jones
Dr. Jones holds a M.M. in guitar from the University of Akron (1998). He has an extensive background in jazz and rock music and spent a year studying and performing at the Musicians' Institute in Hollywood, California. His new passion is bluegrass banjo, and he is working hard at learning the instrument and its music. One of his more unusual musical engagements was as a banjo player for the Ohio Ballet, where he helped to accompany the troupe to shows at the Joyce Theater in New York City in 1998 and in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio in 1999. He currently performs in a flute/guitar duo with his wife, flutist Lara Langeneckert. Outside of the world of music, Dr. Jones enjoys competitive tennis and spending time with Frodo, his beautiful border collie mix. Email: rejones@butler.edu |
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Dr. Jones is both a music scholar and an active performer. He holds a Ph. D. in music theory from Indiana University (2004) and a M.M. in music theory from the University of Texas at Austin (1996). He was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Butler in Fall 2008, having previously been employed at the University of Missouri since Fall 2002. He has publications in the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Indiana Theory Review and Guitar Review. His music-theoretical interests include instrument-specific analyses, the rhetoric of sonata form, and music of the Elizabethan era. Dr. Jones is devoted to pedagogy and attended the 2007 Wakonse conference on college teaching in Stony Lake, Michigan.