Rate My Professor Joan Huguet

Joan Huguet serves as Chair and Associate Professor of Music at Knox College, a position she has held since joining the faculty in 2016. She earned her Ph.D. in Music Theory from the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music in 2015, an M.A. in Music Theory from McGill University's Schulich School of Music in 2010, and a B.A. in Music and French Literature from Rhodes College in 2008. In 2022, Huguet received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. She has played a key role in redeveloping the music curriculum, serving on the curriculum committee and as faculty secretary. Her teaching portfolio includes core courses in the music theory sequence, 19th-century European common-practice music traditions, and specialized classes on Broadway musicals. Huguet approaches music theory as a language to learn, a puzzle to solve, and an art form, fostering appreciation for diverse human musical expressions across time periods, genres, and cultures. Her teaching interests span musical form, Schenkerian analysis, opera analysis, chromatic harmony, history of music theory, music theory in the liberal arts, and model composition.

Huguet's research focuses on form and harmony in nineteenth-century music, the interplay between musical structure and meaning—particularly in 19th-century common-practice forms and Broadway musicals—and music pedagogy. Notable publications include 'Post-Recapitulatory Organization in Beethoven’s Early Sonata-Rondo Finales' in Music Theory Online (2024), 'Thematic Redundancy, Registral Connections, and Formal Expectations in the Finale of Beethoven's Op. 14/1' in Music Theory and Analysis 3/2 (2016), 'Schenkerian Interruption and Beethoven's Sonata-Rondo Form' in Theory and Practice 40 (2015), and her translation of Jean-Jacques Nattiez’s Musical Analyses and Musical Exegesis: The Shepherd’s Melody in Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (2021). Her dissertation, 'Formal Functions and Voice-Leading Structures in Beethoven’s Early Sonata-Rondo Finales,' received the Alfred Mann Dissertation Prize from Eastman School of Music in 2015. Additional honors include the Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award from the Music Theory Society of New York State (2015), Eastman Teaching Assistant Prize (2014), Sproull Fellowship from the University of Rochester (2010-2014), Phi Beta Kappa from Rhodes College (2008), and Phi Kappa Lambda from Rhodes College (2007).