Allison Wente

Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music Allison Wente contributes expertise on the relationship between artificial intelligence, music, and the historical legacy of mechanical performance technologies.

Allison Wente participated in the inaugural Music Leadership Forum at the 2025 American Musicological Society annual meeting in Minneapolis, a day-long event focused on ethical leadership and guiding music programs through periods of transformation and change.

Allison Wente, associate professor of music and chair of the Department of Music, presented new research on the Steinway Spirio and the evolving relationship between human and mechanical performance at the 2025 AMS/SMT joint annual meeting.

In Vol. 36, article 8, Wente's reviews two post-tonal theory texts: Understanding Post-Tonal Music and The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis: Thirty-Three Graphic Music Analyses.

Routledge published Wente's book, "The Player Piano and Musical Labor: The Ghost in the Machine," in June 2022 and is available in hard copy and digitally through Routledge.

Wente's article in the December 2019 issue presents a group presentation-based model for teaching in the aural skills classroom.

Wente's article in the December 2019 issue forms a basis for a musical topic of the mechanical using examples from concert, film, and popular repertoires.