Dr. Tyler Osborne (he/him) in an Assistant Professor of Music Theory and first-year theory coordinator at the University of Louisville. He focuses his research on individual aesthetics and narrative in nineteenth-century form, tonality, and art song, specifically in the works of Fanny Hensel and Emilie Mayer. His publications on these topics have appeared in Music Theory Spectrum (2022), Music Theory Online (2020), and Oxford University Press's The Songs of Fanny Hensel (2020). He has shared research about these topics in regional, national, and international conferences including the Society for Music Theory (2018, 2019, and 2024) and the Manchester Music Analysis Conference (2025).

Outside of his love for nineteenth-century music, Tyler also enjoys researching lesser-explored popular music genres. He has presented research that synthesizes posthumanist philosophy and vocal timbre at the Society for Music Theory's national conference using examples from the EDM subgenre, Witch House (2023). More recently, Tyler has presented projects examining vocal samples and ecomusicological concerns in post rock at the American Musicological Society's national conference (2024) and Dublin Music Analysis Conference (2026). He has also published on the role of synthesizer timbre in recent death metal subgenres in The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition (2025).

Current projects include examinations of large form in the works of both Emilie Mayer and Niels Gade, and the visual representation of nostalgia in Russian protest music videos from the 2010s.

At the University of Louisville, Tyler designs and teaches the first-year musicianship curriculum, which encompasses written music theory and aural skills. Additionally, he has taught second-year musicianship, analysis courses that explore large forms and multimodal analysis, and modules on hoth German art song and post-tonal elements. Prior to joining the University of Louisville community, Tyler taught first-year theory at the University of Oregon, where he also served as a graduate teacher from 2016–2020.

Outside of his teaching and research, Tyler enjoys a good novel, collecting oddities, and the occasional ghost hunt.