Philip Rupprecht

Office Hours:

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 (Spring 2025):

• Music 258.01, Music history iv Synopsis

  Biddle 104, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

• Music 790s-1.01, Sem hst of mus (topics) Synopsis

  Biddle 113a, M 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

Teaching (Fall 2025):

• Music 241.01, Studio pop: histories/sounds Synopsis

  Biddle 113a, WF 06:15 PM-07:30 PM

• Music 562.01, Analysis of music after 1900 Synopsis

  Biddle 113a, Tu 01:25 PM-03:55 PM

Recent Professional Work:

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• Rupprecht, P. "SYMPHONIES SERIOUS OR FOR FUN: Malcolm Arnold, the BBC, and the Production of Taste." The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Middlebrow January, 2022: 390-416. [doi]  [abs]
• 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.