Benjamin McKay Ayotte

Dr. Ayotte is the founder and proprietor of Ayotte Custom Musical Engravings LLC (http://www.ayottemusic.com), an independent publishing firm dedicated to custom musical arrangements, new editions of classic works, and copyist work for music academics preparing articles, conference papers, or books. Prior to establishing A.C.M.E., Dr. Ayotte was a university professor, teaching music theory, analysis, and composition at the University of North Carolina and Michigan State University. He has published articles and reviews in Nineteenth Century Music Review, MLA Notes, Artes Fontis Musicae, and Acta Musicologica. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies and has served as an outside reader for the Journal of Music Theory and the Journal of the Bach-Riemenschneider Institute. As well, he served as an editorial assistant for Gordon Sly's edited collection "Keys to the Drama: Nine Perspectives on Sonata Form" for which he engraved Edward Laufer's Chopin sketches for Chapter Seven as well as examples for the recent books and articles of Erinn Knyt. He holds a Ph. D. in music theory from Michigan State University, where his dissertation examines Heinrich Schenker's varied and creative use of the auxiliary cadence technique to reflect the poetic content of his own Lieder. For further information, he may be reached at ayottemusic@aol.com.