Christopher Gable
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Teaching Assistant Professor, Rock History/Music Theory, Music
- Rock History, Music Theory, Music & Culture, Composition
Contact Info
- Email: christopher.gable@UND.edu
- Office: 701.777.6190
- Dept: 701.777.2644
Office Address
Hughes Fine Arts Center Room 162
3350 Campus Road Stop 7125
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7125
Office Hours
Tuesdays, 10am-Noon (via Zoom)
Websites
Biography
Christopher Gable is a composer, author, and music instructor based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where he also teaches theory and Rock History at the University of North Dakota. His music has been performed all across the United States and in Shanghai, China. His music frequently includes references to and variations on all kinds of popular music. His commissions include works premiered by several UND ensembles, including the UND Trumpet Ensemble, the UND Concert Choir, Duo Cantabile, the Steel Pan Ensemble, and several student performers. Other ensembles that have commissioned works from Dr. Gable are the International Music Camp, the Minnesota Philharmonic, One Voice Mixed Chorus, Trio Carrefour, the dream songs project, Zeitgeist, and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra (Minneapolis). Dr. Gable’s most recent opera is The Ladysmith Story, which celebrates the town of Ladysmith, Wisconsin and premiered in July 2010. He has previously taught at Macalester College, the University of Minnesota and St. Olaf College. Gable studied at the University of Minnesota and UC Santa Barbara; his principal teachers were Dominick Argento, Judith Lang Zaimont, and Emma Lou Diemer. His music is published by Dorn Publications and Warwick Music. He has written two books about popular musicians, The Words and Music of Sting and The Words and Music of Sheryl Crow, which were both published by Praeger Publishers. Dr. Gable was named a 2013 Artist Fellow from the North Dakota Council on the Arts.
MUSC 101 Fundamentals of Music (online)
MUSC 201 Rock & Roll History 1: From WWII to 1975
MUSC 202 Rock & Roll History 2: From 1975 to the Present
MUSC 203 Music & Culture
MUSC 277 New Music Ensemble
MUSC 340 Introduction to Music Technology
MUSC 427 Analysis of Musical Form
MUSC 490 Seminar in Music (Spring 2019: Dmitri Shostakovich)
Past courses:
MUSC 230 Theory III
MUSC 234 Theory IV
MUSC 231 Aural Skills III
MUSC 235 Aural Skills IV
MUSC 423 Instrumental & Choral Arranging
MUSC 428 Counterpoint
MUSC 429 Class Composition
MUSC 430 Composition Lessons
MUSC 500 Introduction to Graduate Study in Music
MUSC 501 Graduate Theory Review
MUSC 502 Perspectives in Music Theory
Fine Arts 150 Introduction to the Fine Arts (online)
20th- and 21st-century music
Popular Music theory & analysis
Composition
BOOKS:
The Words and Music of Sting. Praeger Publishers, 2009.
The Words and Music of Sheryl Crow. Praeger Publishers, 2016.
RECENT PERFORMANCES (as composer):
Waltztumble for brass quintet, performed by the International Brass Quintet. Commissioned by the International Music Camp. (June 2019)
Hold On (Pueblo Blessing) for SATB choir & piano, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Commissioned by the St. Amant High School Choirs. (April 2018)
Homesteading for SATB choir a capella, performed by the Otterbein University Concert Choir, Westerville, Ohio. Part of the Great Lakes Regional Conference of the College Music Society. (April 2018)
Circuit Dance for percussion trio, performed by Dr. Brian Pfeifer, Alec Hepper, and Yuesen Yang. (October 2017)
North Dakota Council on the Arts Artist Fellowship, 2013.
PhD, Music Composition, University of Minnesota
MA, Music Composition, University of Minnesota
BA, Music, University of California Santa Barbara