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Dr BENEDICT TAYLOR, MA (Cantab), MMus (Lond), PhD (Cantab)
Benedict Taylor received his PhD from St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and subsequently held fellowships at Princeton and Berlin before coming to Oxford in 2011 as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music Theory. His research interests include Music Theory and Analysis, the History of Music c. 1770-1945 (with particular focus on Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann, British Music, and the Viennese fin de siècle), Aesthetics and Philosophy. Current projects include a second book exploring ideas of temporality and subjectivity in nineteenth-century music from Beethoven to Elgar, and a study of the harmonic usage of late 19th-century composers outside or on the periphery of the Austro-German tradition, focussing specifically on the late piano music of Grieg.
Photo: ©Sasha Snow
Selected Publications:
Books:
Mendelssohn, Time and Memory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Articles:
‘Musical History and
Self-Consciousness in Mendelssohn's Octet, Op. 20', 19th-Century Music, 32/2 (2008), 131-59.
‘Nostalgia and
Cultural Memory in Barber's Knoxville:
Summer of 1915', Journal of
Musicology, 25/3 (2008), 211-29.
‘Berg and Modernity:
Ambivalence, Synthesis, and Remaking of Tradition in the String Quartet op. 3',
Studia Musicologica, 50/1-2
(2009), 29-48.
‘Cyclic Form, Time
and Memory in Mendelssohn's A minor Quartet, Op. 13', The Musical Quarterly,
93/1 (2010), 45-89. Winner of the Royal
Musical Association's Jerome Roche Prize for a distinguished article by a
scholar in the early stages of his or her career, 2011.
‘Modal four-note pitch collections in the music of Dvořák's American period', Music Theory Spectrum, 32/1 (2010),
44-59.
Contact Details:
Dr Benedict Taylor
New College
Oxford
OX1 3BN
benedict.taylor@music.ox.ac.uk