Roger Mathew Grant
Roger Mathew Grant is a music theorist specializing in the eighteenth century. He also works as a dramaturge, for example with Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce on a film version of Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire."[1] Grant teaches at Wesleyan University.[2]
Work[]
According to a recent interview, Grant believes that "during the eighteenth century, debates within musical aesthetics re-scripted the role that performing musicians play in the creation and communication of affect."[3]
Publications[]
Books[]
- Grant, Roger Mathew (2014). Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era New York: Oxford University Press. OCLC 1028553445.
- Grant, Roger Mathew (2020). Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical. New York: Fordham University Press. OCLC 1144094031.
Articles[]
- Grant, Roger Mathew (2008). “Hysteria at the Musical Surface." Music Theory Online 14 (1): n.p.
- Grant, Roger Mathew (2013). “Ad infinitum: Numbers and Series in Early Modern Music Theory.” Music Theory Spectrum 35 (1): 62–76.
- Grant, Roger Mathew (2017). “Peculiar Attunements: Comic Opera and Enlightenment Mimesis.” Critical Inquiry 43 (2): 550–569.
Awards[]
- Emerging Scholar Award (Book), Society for Music Theory (2016), for Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era
- Stanford Humanities Center, External Faculty Fellowship (2016–2017)
Projects[]
In 2015 and 2016, Grant collaborated on a "radical reinterpretation" of Mozart's The Magic Flute in an installation at NYU's 80 Washington Square East Gallery with Jonathan Berger, Susanne Sachsse, Vaginal Davis, and Jamie Stewart.[4]
Grant served as musical producer for Pierrot Lunaire (2014), a film by Bruce LaBruce and winner of the Teddy Jury Award, Berlinale International Film Festival.[5]
References[]
- ^ Sachße, Susanne; Bachmann, Paulina; Vega, Luizo; Ivanenko, Maria (2014-05-24), Pierrot Lunaire, retrieved 2017-05-19
- ^ "Roger Mathew Grant - Faculty, Wesleyan University". www.wesleyan.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
- ^ Wakefield, Tanu (2017-01-30). "Stanford Humanities Center fellow Q&A: Roger Grant on affect theory". Stanford Humanities Center. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
- ^ "The Magic Flute - 80 Washington Square East Galleries - NYU Steinhardt". steinhardt.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
- ^ Pierrot Lunaire (2014) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-02-18
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