Bruce Taggart

ABOUT

Bruce Taggart retired as Associate Professor of Music Theory at the MSU College of Music in 2022. He joined the MSU faculty in 1995. He received a Bachelor of Arts cum laude from St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minnesota), a Master of Music from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. Taggart formerly taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland). His research interests include music perception, musical development, and music theory pedagogy. He presented papers at regional and national meetings of the College Music Society and regional meetings of the Society for Music Theory, and he as been published in the Southeastern Journal of Music Education and Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, among others.