Makiko Kawamoto, Musicology
| Office Location: | Biddle 042 |
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Teaching (Fall 2009):
- MUSIC 20S.01, SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSIC
Synopsis
- Biddle 086, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
- Education:
MA Duke University 2006 MA Tokyo Gakugei University 1999 BA Tokyo Gakugei University 1997
- 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
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Franklin Humanities Institute Dissertation Working Group, Franklin Humanities Institute, July, 2009
- Evan Frankel Dissertation Fellowship, 2008-2009
- Julian Price endowed Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2008-2009
- Conference Travel Fellowship, March, 2007
- Recent Publications
- Musical Silence as 'Nothingness' in Richard Wagner’s Parsifal, Proceedings of One-day Symposium on Silence, Chester in 2009 (forthcoming)
- "'Silent' Influence on Early Wagner", Proceedings of XIV. Internationaler Kongress der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Leipzig in 2008 (forthcoming)
- Selected Other
- “Multivalence, Meaning, and Modern Music,” chaired at an Annual Meeting of the South-Central Graduate Music Consortium, September 2005, Chapel Hill, NC
- Selected Conferences
- "Chinmoku no youshiki-shi: Parujifaru kara Pereasu he [Stylistic History of Silence: From Parsifal to Pelléas]," (Japanese), October 2009, the 60th National Conference of Musicological Society of Japan, Osaka (Japan)
- “Stravinsky and Schoenberg as Tom and Huck?: Adorno’s Singspiel based on Twain”, July 2009, the Sixth Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900, Keele (the United Kingdom)
- “Musical Silence as ‘Nothingness’ in Richard Wagner’s Parsifal”, June 2009, the One-day Interdiciplinary Symposium on Silence, Chester (the United Kingdom)
- “'Silent' Influence on Early Wagner”, September 2008, XIV. Internationaler Kongress der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Leipzig (Germany)
- “Cool and Silence, or Miles Davis and John Cage”, June 2007, the 14th Biennial International Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Mexico City (Mexico)
- “Dialectics of Work and Play: Adorno’s Singspiel Der Schätz der Indianer-Joe”, September 2006, an Annual Meeting of the South-Central Graduate Music Consortium, Charlottesville, VA
- “Rihyaruto Waguna no Parujifaru ni okeru ongakuteki siteki sei: geijutsu-syukyo no jissenn to site [Musical and Poetic Silence in Richard Wagner’s Parsifal: a Realization of the Idea of Kunstreligion],” (Japanese), July 1999, a Chapter Meeting of the Musicological Society of Japan, Tokyo (Japan)