David Neumeyer
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COURSES
PUBLICATIONS
LINKS AND INFORMATION:
- Hearing the Movies: Textbook website
Film and film music: FILM-MUSIC RELATED
Music: THEORY AND HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL EUROPEAN MUSIC
Dance: MUSIC IN TRADITIONAL EUROPEAN DANCE
Henry Mitchell, garden writer: Henry Mitchell website
Miscellaneous: LISTS, TABLES, AND LINKS
Personal home page of David Neumeyer. File last updated on 3 July 2009; links last tested 15 August 2007.
Phone: (512) 471-7346
NOTE TO ENTERING GRADUATE STUDENTS, FALL 2009:A page with tables of chord symbols is available here to help you prepare for Theory diagnostic exam I: go to chord tables.
NOTE TO ENTERING GRADUATE STUDENTS IN COMPOSITION and MUSIC THEORY, FALL 2009: For information on content of the Theory diagnostic exam II (counterpoint), go to Exam Information. In fall 2009, I will be using a different textbook, but that will not affect the content or design of the diagnostic exam.
COURSES, FALL SEMESTER 2009:
Courses from earlier semesters/years: Go to courses from 2001 to spring 2009.
--"Diegetic/Nondiegetic: A Theoretical Model," Music and the Moving Image 2/1 (spring 2009).
--Review of Beyond the Soundtrack, eds. Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, and Richard Leppert, Journal of the American Musicological Society 61/2 (2008): 447-55.
Forthcoming:
--"Thematic Reading, (Proto)Backgrounds, and Transformations," Music Theory Spectrum 31/2 (fall 2009). A website with materials relating to this article: Analyses using (proto)backgrounds.
--Review of Deepening Musical Performance Through Movement: The Theory and Practice of Embodied Interpretation by Alexandra Pierce, Indiana Theory Review 27 (2009).
--"The String Quartet in the Chamber Music of Paul Hindemith," in Evan Jones, ed., Intimate Voices: Aspects of Construction and Character in the Twentieth-Century String Quartet (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, forthcoming fall 2009). U of R Press page for this book.
--with James Buhler, "Silent Movies and the Transition to Sound," in Robynn J. Stilwell and Peter Franklin, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Film Music (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Articles submitted to journals for review:
Books in progress:
Web publications:
2. Complex upper-voice cadential figures: Complex upper-voice figures. Originally posted 2004; last update 14 February 2009.
3. Tonal frames and ascending cadence gestures: Frames and Gestures. Posted 25 July 2008.
4. Schenkerian version of the preceding: Rising lines. Originally posted 2004; last update 09 February 2009.
5. (SCHENKER GUIDE) David Neumeyer and Susan Tepping, A Guide to Schenkerian Analysis (Prentice Hall, 1992 -- oop): chapters available online . Files posted 2005.
Music in traditional European dance:
All original material copyright David Neumeyer 2004-09.
Contact information: David Neumeyer
Leslie Waggener Professor in the College of Fine Arts
Professor of Music
Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station E3100
Austin, TX 78712-0435
USA
Email: neumeyer. Domain name is mail.utexas.edu
Courses:
MUS 368L: Review of Music Theory. This course will be very similar in schedule and requirements to its 2008 version: MUS 368L syllabus, fall 2008.
MUS 325L: Sixteenth-century counterpoint (undergraduate). In fall 2009, I am changing textbooks for this class. We will now use Peter Schubert, Modal Counterpoint: Renaissance Style, 2d ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). Adjustments to the order of topics and assignments will be made accordingly, but the overall goals will remain the same. A public copy of the syllabus and other documents for the 2006 class may be found at Go to 325L course page..
COURSE, SECOND SUMMER SESSION 2009:
MUS S337: Music for Radio and Television/Topic: Music in Sound Film. Meets daily 1:00-2:30 in GAR 1.126. The course is designed for the general student. Information and skills from courses such as Introduction to Film, Music Appreciation, or Introduction to Music Theory can be helpful but are not necessary for success in this course. The main requirement is a willingness to listen carefully and to articulate what you hear. For more information, contact the instructor. A public copy of the syllabus is available at: Go to 337 syllabus, summer 2009. This section of MUS 337 is not a substantial writing component course.
Publications: most recent, forthcoming, or in progress:
Published recently:
Go here for abstracts.
--(textbook) Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History, with James Buhler and Robert Deemer (New York: Oxford University Press). The book is now in stock. The announcement page on the Press's website: Hearing the Movies. We've set up a course-support website on which we've posted sample syllabi and other information: textbook website. in addition, an authors blog has comments on pedagogical materials and strategies as well as new research information: authors' blog. 
--with James Buhler, "Music in the Evolving Soundtrack," in Graeme Harper, ed., Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media (London/New York: Continuum, 2009). The book on the Barnes & Noble website (includes a complete table of contents): Sound and Music. On the Amazon website: Sound and Music.
Go here for abstracts.
--"The Resonances of Wagnerian Opera and Nineteenth-Century Melodrama in the Film Scores of Max Steiner," in Jeongwon Joe and Sander Gilman, eds., Wagner and Cinema (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press: forthcoming in 2009). IU Press page for this book.
--none at present.
I am working with co-author Nathan Platte on a volume for the Scarecrow Press series Film Score Guides, edited by Kate Daubney. The topic is Franz Waxman's music for Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940).
1. Analyses using (proto-)backgrounds: (proto-)backgrounds. Posted 27 June - 3 July 2009.
Subordinate texts:
a. Application and evaluation of (proto-)backgrounds for a melody from M. Landrin, Receuil danglaise: Blac Danse.
b. Explanation of "theme" and "thesis" using a passage from Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca: Theme and Thesis.
c. Explanation of "theme" and "thesis" using a poem by Rachel Hadas Genre Clerk: Theme and Thesis.
d. Reading of Mozart, German Dance, K. 602, no. 4, using (proto-)backgrounds and transformation functions: Mozart, K. 602, no. 4.
LINKS AND INFORMATION:Film and film-music related:
1. (WAXMAN)
Franz Waxman: Concerts of the Los Angeles Music Festival, 1947-1966: "LA Music Festival."
Home page for Franz Waxman, official website.
4. (CHION)
5. (BORDWELL)
6. (RAPEE)
Erno Rapee, Encyclopedia of Music for Pictures (NY: Belwin 1925): List of the topic categories.
Erno Rapee, Encyclopedia: Text of the compiler's introduction.
Theory and history of traditional European tonal music:
1. (CAPLIN FUNCTIONS: EXAMPLES) Formal functions for phrase, theme, and small forms (after William E. Caplin, Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven [New York: Oxford University Press, 1998]), summary and examples: Beethoven examples.
Data for theme types in contredanses:
"Arquebus"
Bacquoy-Guâedon
Clarchies
La Cuisse
Landrin
Mozart & Beethoven
Playford2. (TONAL FRAMES; CADENCE MODELS IN HISTORICAL REPERTOIRES 1) Web publication: Frames and Gestures.
3. (ASCENDING CADENCE GESTURES) Schenkerian version of the preceding (Rising lines). Tables of pieces with rising line cadence gestures: Compositions with Rising Lines.
4. (SCHENKER: FREE COMPOSITION COMPARISON) Collation of the openings of the German and English versions of Schenker's Free Composition: Free Composition collation
5. (CADENCE MODELS IN HISTORICAL REPERTOIRES 2) Complex upper-voice cadential figures: Complex upper-voice figures.
6. (SCHENKER GUIDE) Web publication of out of print textbook: chapters available online
1. (19TH CENTURY DANCE-MUSIC HISTORY) Franz Boehme, Geschichte des Tanzes in Deutschland (1886), text and musical examples for the waltz: excerpts from Boehme.
2. (LOC DANCE MANUALS -- LINKS TO MUSIC) Links to music pages in some dance instruction manuals and dance collections, American Memory site, Library of Congress: LOC dance music. Music in eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century dance manuals is often placed on unnumbered pages; these are indexed unevenly and sometimes hard to find on the LOC's site.
3. (ILLUSTRATIONS OF DANCING IN SHEET MUSIC AND DANCE MANUALS FROM THE 19TH CENTURY) By far the richest resource on the internet for sheet music covers showing dancing is the Lester Levy Collection, Johns Hopkins University. This Collection is arranged by topic -- felicitously preserved in the exceptionally well presented online site -- and three boxes are labeled "Dance": Box 184, Box 185, Box 186. Such images are more difficult to find on the Library of Congress American Memory site and the Duke University Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920, whose items are also accessible through the American Memory site. Many more images of dancers and dancing may be found in dance instruction manuals, also on the American Memory site.
4. (TOMLINSON, MENUET, DANCE AND MUSIC) Music from the Menuet engravings that conclude Kellom Tomlinson's The Art of Dancing (1735): Tomlinson menuet.
5. (FORM DATA FOR CONTREDANSES) Also see the data lists for theme types in 18th century contredanses: Contredanse themes.
Miscellaneous lists, tables, and links:
1. (GRADUS TOC) Clementi, Gradus ad Parnassum, annotated table of contents: Gradus contents
2. (TREVINO DANCEHALL LIST) List of dance halls (historic and modern): Alex Trevino's list of Texas dance halls, from his book Dance Halls and Last Calls: A History of Texas Country Music.
3. (AUSTIN DANCE) "50 Places to Dance" The Austin360 site reproduces Jonathan Goodsell's recent story in the Austin American Statesman (06 April 2006) on 50 local venues for dancing. Covers a very wide range of dance styles.
4. (AUSTIN LIVE MUSIC) "Why is Austin called the live music capital of the world?" The Austin360 site reproduces Michael Barnes' story in the Austin American Statesman (1 September 2005) on 100 local venues for live music. Includes comments on dancing and dance floors for some entries.
5. (NEUMEYERS) Personal website David and Laura Neumeyer; includes information on local (central Texas) dance and music venues. Note: since last fall, this page has migrated from Time-Warner Austin's RoadRunner server to my UT webspace. It is still worth a look though it is unlikely we will update the links or comments in future.
6. (HENRY MITCHELL) Garden writer: Henry Mitchell website (unofficial). Note: as of 18 November 2008, this site has migrated to my UT webspace.
7. (TEXTS ONLINE) Full text sites:
8. (LITERATURE/POETRY-RELATED)
AddALL combined book search site
9. (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS) Library of Congress American Memory Site
10. (PHILOSOPHY) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
11. (HISTORY) Timelines of History
12. (PAINTING) Artcyclopedia "fine arts search engine"
13. (SCIENCE BLOG) Ed Yong: Not Exactly Rocket Science
14. (BOTANY PotD) University of British Columbia Botany Picture of the Day