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Professor PETER FRANKLIN, BA, DPhil (York)
Professor Peter Franklin took up the post of Reader in Music at Oxford in 1996, when he became the first Fellow in Music at St Catherine's College; he was Senior Tutor at St Catherine's from 1998-2000. He has been Music Faculty Director of Graduate Studies (1998-2001) and Chairman of the Faculty Board (2001-4 and 2009-10).
Peter Franklin has broadcast for BBC Radio 3 in music-related programmes and interval talks and has presented Radio 3's ‘Composer of the Week'. His academic work has taken him to conferences in many parts of Europe and America. His primary areas of research interest are Gustav Mahler and the post-romantic symphony, early twentieth-century Austrian and German opera (particularly Franz Schreker) and Hollywood film music (including the role of European emigré composers like Korngold and Steiner in the 1930s and '40s). Books and examples of his more recent work are listed in Publications; a monograph on Hollywood film music, Seeing Through Music, is due to be published in 2011 by OUP. In the Fall of 2010 he is Visiting Bloch Professor at the University of California in Berkeley. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of 19th-Century Music, The Wagner Journal, and the Journal of Film Music.
Publications
BOOKS
The Idea of Music. Schoenberg and Others, pp.188, London, Macmillan 1985
Mahler. Symphony no.3, Cambridge Music Handbooks, pp.127. Cambridge. CUP 1991
The Life of Mahler, pp.228. Cambridge, CUP 1997 [also translated into Japanese and Chinese]
Seeing Through Music, Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores (forthcoming from Oxford University Press)
[As Editor:]Natalie Bauer-Lechner: Recollections of Gustav Mahler (translated by Dika Newlin), London 1980.
The Cambridge Companion to Film Music with Robynn Stilwell (forthcoming)
RECENT WORK
‘Sibelius in Britain', Ch.12 of Daniel M. Grimley (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius, Cambridge, CUP, 2004, 182-95.
‘Between the wars: traditions, modernisms and the "little people from the suburbs" in Nicholas Cook and Anthony Pople (eds.), The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, Cambridge, CUP 2004, 186-209.
‘"Wer weiss, Vater, ob as nicht Engel sind?" Reflections on the Pre-Fascist Discourse of Degeneracy in Schreker's Die Gezeichneten' in Nikolaus Bacht (ed.): Music, Theatre and Politics in Germany. 1848 to the Third Reich, Aldershot, Ashgate 2006, 173-183
‘Music, Oblivion and Recollection: A Cinematic Perspective on the Case of Mahler' in Andreas Dorschel (ed.): Resonanzen. Vom Erinnern in der Musik, Studien zur Wertungsforschung, Universal Edition, Wien, London, New York 2007, 149-161
‘The Boy on the Train, or Bad Symphonies and Good Movies. The Revealing Error of the ‘Symphonic Score', in Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer and Richard Leppert (eds.): Beyond the Soundtrack. Representing Music in Cinema, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London 2007, 13-26
‘Socio-political landscapes: reception and biography', in Jeremy Barham (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Mahler, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, 7-20
Review-article: ‘Franz Schreker: Die Gezeichneten' in Opera Quarterly. Vol.23, no.4, Autumn 2007, 486-95
Review-article: The Mahler Family Letters, ed. Stephen McClatchie in Music and Letters, Vol.89, no.4, November 2008, 666-72
"A Farewell, a Femme Fatale, and a Film: Three Awkward Moments in Twentieth-Century Music", in Musical Meaning and Human Values, ed. Keith Chapin and Lawrence Kramer (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009), 150-169.
‘Underscoring Drama - Picturing Music' in Wagner and Cinema (ed Jeongwon Joe and Sander Gilman, Indiana University Press 2010), 46-64‘Shared Stories? Karłowicz and the ‘Fin-de-Siècle' Musical Narrative' in European Fin-de-Siècle and Polish Modernism. The Music of Mieczysław Karłowicz, ed. Luca Sala (Bologna, UT Orpheus Edizioni 2010), 107-118
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Contact Details
Prof Peter Franklin
Faculty of Music
St Aldate's
Oxford. OX1 1DB
Tel: 01865 276135
E-mail: peter.franklin@music.ox.ac.uk