Dr. Alan Dodson is an alumnus of the Music program at Mount Allison and holds graduate degrees in piano performance and music scholarship from the University of Western Ontario. After completing a two-year Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta, he taught in the School of Music at the University of British Columbia for fourteen years, including two years as Chair of the Music Theory Division. He joined the Mount A Music Department in 2019.

Dr. Dodson's research interests include the analysis of recorded music, theories of musical rhythm and temporality, and the studio teaching of the Viennese music theorist Heinrich Schenker (1868‒1935). He has presented conference papers and guest lectures on four continents and published peer-reviewed articles in seven academic journals. He recently completed a chapter on visual representations of expressive timing for the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Rhythm and is now working on an annotated translation of Schenker’s lesson books from the 1920s for Schenker Documents Online. He is an active member of the Society for Music Theory and serves on the advisory panel of Oxford Music Online and on the editorial boards of Music Theory Spectrum, Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music, and Intégral.

Dr. Dodson teaches Materials of Music I‒IV and Analytical Techniques.