Stefan Kostka

Stefan M. Kostka (born 1939) is an American music theorist, author, and professor emeritus of music theory at the University of Texas at Austin.

Education Kostka graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a bachelor's degree in 1962, and then received a graduate degree at the University of Texas, studying under Kent Kennan before receiving a PhD in music theory from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Career He was a member of the faculty of the Eastman School of Music from 1969 to 1973, and since that time has been on the faculty at the University Texas at Austin. Kostka initiated courses in computer applications in music at both the Eastman School and the University of Texas. Later, he specialized in courses in atonal theory and contemporary styles and techniques.

Selected publications Books The Hindemith String Quartets: A Computer-Assisted Study of Selected Aspects of Style, Doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1969 A Bibliography of Computer Applications in Music, J. Boonin, 1974

Materials and Techniques of Twentieth Century Music, Prentice Hall, 1990; 5th edition, Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, with Matthew Santa, Routledge, 2018. Anthology of Music for Analysis, with Roger Graybill, Prentice Hall, 2003

Articles 1971: "Recent developments in computer-assisted musical scholarship", Computers and the Humanities, volume 6, issue 1, pages 15–21 1991: (with Russell Riepe)