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Philip RupprechtPhilip Rupprecht

Title: Professor
Office Location: 105 Biddle Music Building, Box 90665 Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0665
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Email Address: philip.rupprecht@duke.edu
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By  Appointment - please email me: philipr@duke.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. Yale University, 1993
  • M.Phil. Yale University, 1991
  • B.A. University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), 1988

Research Interests

Philip Rupprecht specializes in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His recent writings engage concepts of narrative in opera, the circulation of stereotypes in the formation of national traditions in music, and agency effects in instrumental music. He is the author of "British Musical Modernism: the Manchester Group and their Contemporaries" (Cambridge, 2015) and "Britten's Musical Language" (Cambridge, 2002). He co-edited "Tonality 1900-1950" (2012); and edited "Rethinking Britten" (2013).

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Faculty Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 0 2013
  • "Tonality 1900-1950: Concept and Practice," International Conference, National Endowment for the Humanities collaborative grant, October, 2010
  • Tonality 1900-1950: Concept and Practice, International Conference, National Endowment for the Humanities collaborative grant, October 2010
  • Duke/UNC Exchange Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC-Chapel Hill, Fall 2008
  • William J. Bouwsma Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 2005-06
  • Fellow, National Humanities Center, 0 2005
  • Publication Subvention for the book Britten’s Musical Language (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Society for Music Theory, Fall 2001
  • Faculty Fellow, Ethyl R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College, 1997-98

Teaching (Fall 2024):

  • Music 241.01, Studio pop: histories/sounds Synopsis
    Biddle 113a, TuTh 06:15 PM-07:30 PM
  • Music 461.01, Theor/prac tonal mus iii Synopsis
    Biddle 104, WF 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

Recent Professional Work:

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    Articles in Books
  • Rupprecht, P. "The Avant-Garde." Benjamin Britten in Context January, 2022: 200-212. [doi]  [abs]
  • Rupprecht, P. "Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music." vol. 66 no. 2 January, 2022: 291-302. [doi]
  • Rupprecht, P. "Voicing ideology: Modernism and the middlebrow in Britten's operas." vol. 101 no. 2 May, 2020: 343-366. [doi]
  • Rupprecht, P. "Rhythmic Dignity: Motive, Signal, and Flux in the Music of James Dillon." vol. 34 no. 4 2019: 347-376.
  • Rupprecht, P. "Scenes from Britten's 'Spring Symphony'." Literary Britten. Edited by Kennedy, K. Boydell 2018.


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