Kyle’s research interests include the psychoacoustics of chromatic tonality in the music of composers such as Richard Strauss, both Gustav and Alma Mahler, and Florence Price. He is also interested in intersections of analysis and ethnography in Price’s music, theorizing the role of melody in form-functional theory, and intersections of narrative and musical structure in Broadway musicals.
His research has been published in Theory and Practice, Music Theory Online, Music Analysis, Music Theory Spectrum, and Intégral. He received the Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award from the Music Theory Society of New York State in 2020, and the George Proctor Prize from the Canadian University Music Society in 2018. Kyle has also received the University of Toronto faculty of music’s award for outstanding Teaching Assistant in 2017, and an award for distinguished service to the faculty of music in 2020.
Kyle currently serves on the editorial board for Theory and Practice, the 2023-2024 program committee for the Music Theory Society of New York State, and on the Awards Committee for the Society for Music Theory.