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Makiko Kawamoto, Musicology

Contact Info:
Office Location:  Biddle 042
Email Address: send me a message

Education:

MADuke University2006
MATokyo Gakugei University1999
BATokyo Gakugei University1997
Specialties:

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

  1. “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)    
  2. “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.    
  3. “Multivalence, Meaning, and Modern Music,” chaired at an Annual Meeting of the South-Central Graduate Music Consortium, September 2005, Chapel Hill, NC    
  4. “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)    

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