Higher Education

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Florida State University, 2024–Present
  • Affiliate Faculty in Musicology, Florida State University, 2025–Present
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Wesleyan University, 2023–2024
  • Instructor of Saxophone, Wesleyan University, 2023
  • Lecturer, Princeton University, 2023
  • Instructor of Music History and Theory, The College of New Jersey, 2021–23
  • Instructor of Music, Temple University, 2021–22
  • Preceptor, Princeton University, 2019–20
  • Teaching Assistant in Music Theory, Temple University, 2015–17
    • 2016 B. Stimson Carrow Prize in Music Theory Pedagogy

Courses Taught

(* Denotes graduate level)

  • Florida State University
    • History of Theory, Spring 2026*
    • Readings in Jazz Analysis, Fall 2025*
    • Musical Meaning and Performance, Spring 2026*, Fall 2025
    • Doctoral Seminar on Musical Meaning, Fall 2024*
    • Analyzing Tonal Music, Fall 2024*
  • Wesleyan University
    • Writing about Sound: What the audible can teach us about our world (First-Year Seminar), Spring 2024
    • A Thousand Years of Music History, Spring 2024
    • Tonal Harmony (Theory 2), Spring 2024
    • Materials and Design (Theory 1), Fall 2023
    • Theory and Analysis (Theory 3), Fall 2023
    • Music Lessons, Fall 2023
  • Princeton University
    • Seminar in Jazz Analysis, Spring 2023
  • The College of New Jersey
    • Musicianship 3, Fall 2022
    • Music 600–1750, Spring 2022 and 2023
    • Music 1750–1945, Fall 2021
  • Temple University
    • Sounds of Philadelphia, Fall 2021 and 2022, Spring 2022

K-12

From 2016–23, Dylan served as Music Theory Coordinator of Temple University’s Music Preparatory division. He designed the curriculum, supervized a team of graduate teaching assistants, and instructed middle and high school musicians. Alumni have placed into accelerated theory courses for college music majors.

Dylan maintains an active teaching license in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Before entering graduate school, he was employed in the Pennsbury School District, which is consistently named one of NAMM’s Top One Hundred Communities for Music Education. While there, Dylan conducted wind and jazz ensembles.