MUSIC THEORIST IN RESIDENCE 2010

 

 

 

Music Theorist in Residence at the Orpheus Institute

Prof. WILLIAM ROTHSTEIN April 21 -23 2010

 

 

Same as last year, on initiative of the Dutch-Flemish Music Theory Society, the academic year 2009-2010 appointed an internationally recognized Music Theorist in residence.

In previous years, the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory joined forces with the University and the Conservatory of Amsterdam on the one hand and the Orpheus Institute on the other to invite Professor Robert Gjerdingen (Northwestern University, Evanston, U.S.A.) in 2007-08, and Professor Kofi Agawu (Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S.A.) in 2008-09. This year, Professor William Rothstein (Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York) resided at the Orpheus Institute and Leuven University from April 22 until April 23, 2010.

 

PROGRAMME

 

Please note that the workshops sessions on April 21, 2010 were cancelled due to changes in Prof. Rothstein's flight schedule as a result of the volcano eruption in Iceland.

21-22 April 2010 @ Orpheus Institute

Workshop (three sessions, 2½ hours each):

"Meter and Rhythm in the Music of Beethoven"

• 10.00-12.30 a.m.Session 1
  Historical and theoretical perspectives on phrase syntax, phrase rhythm, and hypermeter
• 2.00-4.30 p.m. Session 2
  Movements in rapid 3/4 meter (scherzi, including that of the "Archduke" Trio, op. 97; the first movements of the String Quartet op. 18, no. 1 and the Piano Sonata op. 28)

 

 

• 9.30-12.00 a.m. Session 3
  Other movements from Beethoven's piano sonatas and string quartets

 

 

22 April 2010 @ Orpheus Institute

Keynote presentation as part of the ORCiM Seminar, "Sound and Score":

"Metric notation and metric perception: A fixed or variable relationship?"

 

De Presentation by Prof. William Rothstein on 22 April 2010, 1.30 p.m. is part of the ORCiM "Sound and Score" Seminar taking place at the Orpheus Institute from Thursday afternoon 22 April 2010 until Friday afternoon 23 April 2010. read more

 

 

23 April 2010 @ Leuven University

Workshop (two sessions, 2½ hours each):

"Meter and Hypermeter in the Music of Verdi and Tchaikovsky"

The focus of this workshop will be music that exhibits a high degree of periodicity: Verdi's operas from ca. 1850, especially Rigoletto and Il trovatore, and Tchaikovsky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty (1889).

 

note:

Prof. Rothstein advises participants to read the following: Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff, A Generative Theory of Tonal Music (The MIT Press, 1983), Chapters 2-4.

In case of additional time it is suggested to read: William Rothstein, "National Metrical Types in Music of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries," in Communication in Eighteenth-Century Music, ed. Danuta Mirka and Kofi Agawu (Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 112-59. This essay is most relevant to the keynote address on 22 April and the workshop in Leuven on 23 April.

It's kindly requested that participants bring their own copies of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, preferably in an edition with measure numbers.