Makiko Kawamoto, Musicology
- Contact Info:
| Office Location: | Biddle 042 |
| Email Address: |   |
- Education:
| MA | Duke University | 2006 |
| MA | Tokyo Gakugei University | 1999 |
| BA | Tokyo Gakugei University | 1997 |
- Specialties:
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Musicology
- Areas of Interest:
- History of musical silence
Philosophers' influence on late 19th century composers
- Keywords:
- Musical Silence • Richard Wagner • Parsifal • Arthur Schopenhauer • Nothingness • Emptiness • Being • Influence
- Selected Other
- “Cool and Silence, or Miles Davis and John Cage,” the 14th Biennial International Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, June 2007, Mexico City (Mexico)
- “Dialectics of Work and Play: Adorno’s Singspiel Der Schätz der Indianer-Joe,” an Annual Meeting of the South-Central Graduate Music Consortium, September 2006, Charlottesville, VA.
- “Multivalence, Meaning, and Modern Music,” chaired at an Annual Meeting of the South-Central Graduate Music Consortium, September 2005, Chapel Hill, NC
- “Musical and Poetic Silence in Richard Wagner’s Parsifal: a Realization of the Idea of Kunstreilgion,” a Chapter Meeting of the Musicological Society of Japan, July 1999, Tokyo (Japan)