Stefanie Bilidas

A headshot of Stefani Billidas

Lecturer in Theory

Stefanie Bilidas received her Ph.D. in music theory from The University of Texas at Austin in 2025. Her research interests include genre studies, timbre, popular music, and music-dance relationships. She is interested in how various audiences, including professional academics, journalists, practitioners, and amateurs, frame musical analysis, and what analytical tools are used in the making of their interpretations. Her research on popular music focuses on the pairing between genre and timbre and the flexibility embedded in the process of creating generic understandings, while her research on music and dance relationships examines how movement informs perspectives of rhythm, meter, and form. Her work on timbre and genre can be found in episode 11 of Season 3 of SMT-Pod.


Professor Bilidas has presented papers at the Society for Music Theory’s annual conference, Pedagogy into Practice, and the regional societies of Music Theory Midwest, Music Theory Society of New York State, Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, Texas Society for Music Theory, Music Theory Southeast, and South Central Society for Music Theory. 
 

Bilidas is also a dancer of both tap dance and Scottish Highland dance. She is pursuing her teaching certification in Highland dance and assists in the administrative and class duties at her local dance studio.
 

MUS 306M 
Elements in Music

MUS 388 T 
Analytical Techniques 

"The Impact of Timbre on Perceptions of Genre in Recorded Popular Music." (co-authored with Grace Gollmar) SMT-Pod Season 3 Episode 11 (2024)

Contact Information

Campus location
MRH 3.740

Teaching Areas

Theory

Education

Doctor of Philosophy
The University of Texas at Austin

Master of Music
Michigan State University

Bachelor of Music Education
Michigan State University