Derek

Teaching and Learning Philosophy

While participating in Maggie O’Rourke’s recent “Designing Experiences” faculty academy at the UB Center for Educational Innovation, we were asked to dig out our teaching statements and transform them into “teaching and learning philosophies.” Mine still sounds a bit stuffy, but here’s what I came up with: My purpose as a teacher is to exposeContinue reading “Teaching and Learning Philosophy”

Conference on the Italian Madrigal

On the weekend of September 15–16, I will be traveling to Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, to give a presentation at the Third Annual Conference on the Italian Madrigal. My talk is entitled, “Hearing the Interrogative in the Polyphonic Madrigals of Sigismondo d’India: A Quantitative Analysis.” The talk is scheduled for a Saturday morningContinue reading “Conference on the Italian Madrigal”

Translation Across Time

On Saturday, April 30, I will be presenting a short talk at Boston University as part of Enter Textuality: Shifting Perspectives through Editorial Studies, the 2016 graduate student conference in editorial studies. The title of my talk is “Translation Across Time: A Case of Semantic Drift in the Musical Lexicon.” The conference is organized by the BU EditorialContinue reading “Translation Across Time”

Maximalism and the Nineteenth-Century Orchestral Style

”In a successful academic career, the dissertation is eventually going to be the worst piece of scholarship you’ve ever produced.” This classic piece of advice already feels right, in some respects, but I am nevertheless proud to report that I successfully defended my dissertation yesterday afternoon. Only some minor revisions now lie ahead. Here isContinue reading “Maximalism and the Nineteenth-Century Orchestral Style”

The Diegetic Music of Berg’s Lulu

I am happy to announce that the Journal of Musicological Research has published my very first peer-reviewed research article, entitled “The Diegetic Music of Berg’s Lulu: When Opera and Serialism Collide,” in their January 2016 issue. Please visit my research page to view the complete citation information. Alban Berg set his only serialist opera, Lulu, in the tumultuousContinue reading “The Diegetic Music of Berg’s Lulu”

Keitel-Palisca Grant

I am delighted to be participating in the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society happening this weekend in Louisville, Kentucky. My sincere thanks to the AMS for sponsoring my attendance with a Keitel-Palisca professional travel grant. Fun fact: Friday marks the birthday of Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, my university’s namesake, who was bornContinue reading “Keitel-Palisca Grant”

Review of LaRue’s Guidelines for Style Analysis

LaRue, Jan. Guidelines for Style Analysis. Edited by Marian Green LaRue. Expanded Second Edition with Models for Style Analysis (CD Supplement, x, 85 pp). Michigan: Harmonie Park Press, 2011. xxviii, 286 pp. Jan LaRue’s Guidelines for Style Analysis (Harmonie Park Press, 2011) reissues the classic introduction to a comprehensive method of stylistic analysis first publishedContinue reading “Review of LaRue’s Guidelines for Style Analysis”