Jake Landau

DPhil in Music (Composition)

Jake Landau

College Affiliation Christ Church

Area of proposed thesis

Music for the theater as motivic "worldbuilding", a term taken from the high-fantasy literary genre. Analysis of a work not as a small motivic cell blooming outward, but as a setting designed to maximize the impact of a smaller idea's given journey. A process of musical storytelling that is simultaneously abstract and programmatic. www.JakeLandau.com

Research interests

New music, musical theater, opera, lyric, translations to be sung, pre-1800 historically-informed performance

Funding

The Clarendon Fund Scholarship

Degrees

Bachelor of Music (Composition) from The Juilliard School

Master of Studies in Music (Composition) from Hertford College, University of Oxford.