Guest Lecture: Robert Hatten, music theorist
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
10:30 am - 11:30 am
The Moores School of Music is proud to host Robert Hatten, whose lecture will discuss his current research on musical texture. All are welcome to attend.
Robert S. Hatten is recently retired as Marlene & Morton Meyerson Professor in Music at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught music theory since 2011. He served as President of Society for Music Theory in 2017-19 and President of the Semiotic Society of America in 2008. Dr. Hatten’s first book, Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation (1994) was co-recipient in 1997 of the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory. His second book, Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (2004) helped launch the book series “Musical Meaning and Interpretation” (Indiana University Press), for which he served as general editor until 2020, shepherding the publication of over 35 books. His latest book, A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music, appeared in the series in 2018. Illustration and performance at the piano inform his current research, including explorations of texture and expressive meaning in the Bach keyboard partitas, and enrichments of melos in two late nocturnes of Chopin.
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- Location
- Moore School of Music, Room 118
- Cost
- Free
- Contact
- msmprog@central.uh.edu