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 | James Marshall Baker
Music, Department of
My research interests in music analysis include: 1) implication in tonal music (Schenker); 2) chromaticism in 18th-century music (Schoenberg); 3) post-tonal/serial music (various approaches, incl. pitch-class set analysis); 4) co-existence of tonal and extra-tonal relations in early 20th-c. music (combined approaches); 5) historical studies (Haydn, Liszt, Scriabin); 6) analysis and performance (topics, semiotics, hermeneutics); 7) music cognition. |  | Katherine Bergeron
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Katherine Bergeron is a professor of musicology, and currently serves as Dean of the College. Her research interests include French cultural history, musical modernism, the discipline of musicology, experimental music, song, opera, poetry and film. Bergeron is the author of Decadent Enchantments (University of California Press, 1998); Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons (University of Chicago Press, 1992). She most recently completed Voice Lessons: A Cultural Study of Mélodie. | | | Arlene Cole
Music, Department of
I have developed the advanced musicianship course at Brown. This includes the requirements necessary for advanced studies in musicology, theory, and performance for most graduate schools.
As a pianist, I am very interested in developing technique and musicality in my students. This also involves the correct use of hands and body to try to reduce muscle tension. I try to develop the individual talents of each student, along with their knowledge of the historical periods of music and theoretical contexts. |  | Dana Gooley
Music, Department of
Dana Gooley's research focuses on 19th century European musical culture. His publications have focused on the cult of the virtuoso, music criticism, and the role of charisma in the public sphere of 19th century Europe. He is currently researching a book on the pianist-composers of the 19th century and their improvisational practices. He also writes about jazz history, and is presently engaged in a study of jazz-pop crossovers in the 1950s. | | | Louis Frederick Jodry
Status: Emeritus
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|  | David Josephson
Music, Department of
My current research examines the forced emigration of musicians and music scholars from Nazi and Fascist Europe, 1933-1945. I am planning two books on focused aspects of this general subject. The first is a biography of Kathi Meyer-Baer, the first woman to receive the Ph.D. in musicology. The second is an account of the involvement of American and British rescue committees in helping émigré music scholars establish themselves in their host countries. |  | Matthew Richards McGarrell
Music, Department of
Professor McGarrell's work focuses on the preparation of editions of Portuguese band music collected in Portugal for performance by American bands. |  | Kiri Miller
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|  | Marc Perlman
Music, Department of
Professor Perlman's research interests include Indonesian music, the psychology of music, the history and ethnography of music theory, intellectual property law, the variety of musical taste cultures, the cultural impact of music technology, the social history of American music education, the Historical Performance movement in Western art music, Irish music, and Burmese music. |  | Paul Phillips
Music, Department of
Interests: music composition, scholarship, performance. Most recent work, "A Reverie" from "Battle-Pieces", settings of war poems by Melville, premiered by baritone Kyle Ferrill and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, January 2009. Author of "A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess" and an essay in "Anthony Burgess and Modernity" (Manchester 2008). Recent guest conducting: 2008 Vermont All-State Orchestra; "Madama Butterfly" with Commonwealth Opera, November 2008. |  | Joseph Butch Rovan
Music, Department of
Rovan's award-winning work deals with the use of human gesture in interactive performance, including musical composition, software, and hardware design. His research interests include human-computer interface design, haptic feedback systems, and theories of human gesture. Current projects include wireless sensor systems and an interactive opera based on the work of French physiologist Etienne-Jules Marey.
Rovan's research into gestural control and interactivity has been featured in Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique's (IRCAM) journal Resonance, Electronic Musician, the Computer Music Journal, the Japanese magazine SoundArts,and is featured on the CDROM Trends in Gestural Control of Music, published by IRCAM (2000). |  | Gerald Shapiro
Music, Department of
I am a composer of acoustic and electronic music. My next performance of note will be the premiere of TWELVE FUGUES at Wesleyan and Brown Universities in October, 2009. Current projects include TOCCATA, for chamber orchestra, to be premiered in Reykjavik, Iceland in March 2010, and a duet for clarinet and cello for a premiere in Paris by the Zelig Ensemble in November 2010. Longer-term projects include several pieces for orchestra and research into the nature of "musical time." | | | Mark Steinbach
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|  | Michael P. Steinberg
Music, Department of
Professor Steinberg's interests and areas of specialization include Modern European cultural and intellectual history, German Jewish history, the history and theory of modernity, politics and the arts, and the cultural history of music. |  | Rose Rosengard Subotnik
Music, Department of
I am writing a book about the Tin Pan Alley song, defined broadly as middlebrow songs with an independent American existence between 1890 and 1950. My focus is on analyzing ways in which this hybrid genre incorporated and projected a range of values involving commercialism, craftsmanship, and secularism in ways that have been recognized, both positively and negatively, as identifiably American. |  | Jeff Titon
Music, Department of
I am working on a multimedia DVD on the life and preaching of Reverend C.L. Franklin (father of Aretha Franklin) and a multimedia interactive fiction titled The Virtual Folk Festival. I am continuing research into the musical culture and lined hymnody of Old Regular Baptists in Kentucky, into old-time fiddling and on blues, and in addition I am working on a book of theoretical essays on music as a renewable and sustainable human resource, and co-editing the Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology. I also write fiction and compose and perform music. |  | Todd Winkler
Music, Department of
Todd Winkler's work explores ways in which human actions can affect sound and images produced by computers in multimedia dance productions, interactive video installations, and concert pieces for computers and instruments. He is the author of Composing Interactive Music, a book and CD-ROM about the theory and technology of interactive music and performance. His recent work uses motion sensing devices to allow dancers creative input into computer music and digital video systems. |
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