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 with a Bachelor's Degree, 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.

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.

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 ed., Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, with Matthew Santa, Routledge, 2018.
 * Anthology of Music for Analysis, with Roger Graybill, Prentice Hall, 2003
 * Anthology of Music for Analysis, with Roger Graybill, Prentice Hall, 2003

Articles

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