David Neumeyer
Go to:
- Hearing the Movies:
MY CONTACT INFORMATION
COURSES
PUBLICATIONS
LINKS AND INFORMATION:
- FILM-MUSIC RELATED
THEORY AND HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL EUROPEAN MUSIC
MUSIC IN TRADITIONAL EUROPEAN DANCE
Henry Mitchell, garden writer: Henry Mitchell website
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Personal home page of David Neumeyer. File last updated on 10 March 2012; links last tested on 16 January 2012.
Phone: (512) 471-7346
NOTE TO ENTERING GRADUATE STUDENTS IN COMPOSITION and MUSIC THEORY: For information on content of the Theory diagnostic exam II (counterpoint), go to Exam Information.
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Spring semester 2012: MUS 337: Music in Film. An undergraduate course that uses Hearing the Movies as the textbook. 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. Our object is to develop skills in analyzing the sound track, music's role in the sound track, and the relation of sound track and image track (especially relating to music) on small-scale and large-scale (narrative) levels. The course develops critical listening and viewing skills at the same time it offers a survey of the history of film sound focused on technology and musical practices.
-- "Themes and Lines: On the Question of Hierarchy in the Practice of Linear Analysis," Res musica (Estonia) 3 (2011): 9-29.
--Franz Waxman's Rebecca: A Film Score Guide (2011). Nathan Platte and I have written a volume for Scarecrow Press series Film Score Guides, edited by Kate Daubney. Publisher's page for this title: Rebecca . Amazon page for this title: Rebecca .
-- "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: 2010), 152-174. IU Press page for this book.
-- "Thematic Reading, Proto-backgrounds, and Transformations," Music Theory Spectrum 31/2 (fall 2009): 284-324. A website with materials relating to this article: Analyses using (proto)backgrounds. Information relevant to the article may also be found in posts on my Schubert D779n13 blog.
-- "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, 2009), 114-132. U of R Press page for this book.
-- 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.
-- "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.
-- Review of Deepening Musical Performance Through Movement: The Theory and Practice of Embodied Interpretation by Alexandra Pierce, Indiana Theory Review 27/1 (2009): 79-92.
Forthcoming:
Submitted:
Books in progress:
All publications, 1995-present
Older publications (before 1995).
5. (SCHENKER GUIDE) David Neumeyer and Susan Tepping, A Guide to Schenkerian Analysis (Prentice Hall, 1992 -- out of print): chapters available online . Files posted 2005.
Data for theme types in dances by Beethoven, Hummel, and others:
LINKS AND INFORMATION: MUSIC IN TRADITIONAL EUROPEAN DANCE:
All original material and compilation copyright David Neumeyer 2004-12.
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: 
NOTE TO ENTERING GRADUATE STUDENTS: A page with tables of chord symbols is available here to help you prepare for Theory diagnostic exam I: go to chord tables.
MUS 325M: Counterpoint. An upper-level undergraduate course focusing on eighteenth-century style. Class materials are available to enrolled students through Blackboard. A public copy of the syllabus may be found on the University of Texas website.
Class materials are available to enrolled students through Blackboard. A public copy of the syllabus may be found on the University of Texas website.
PUBLICATIONS: MOST RECENT, FORTHCOMING, OR IN PROGRESS:
Published:
Go here for abstracts. 
-- "Music and Cinema, Classical Hollywood." Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO). New York: Oxford University Press, article launched 28 October 2011. Link. 
-- (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.
Nothing at this time. See "Books in progress" below.
5 January 2011 to Music Theory Online, revisions requested in March or April: "Schubert's "Riemannian Hand": An Archaeology of Improvisation for Social Dancing." Reviews received April 2011; request to resubmit for expedited review.
1. Oxford Handbook of Music in Film and Visual Media. More than two dozen experts are contributing to the project; publication is expected in 2012. Many of the authors participated in the Discourses symposium: Discourses of Music, Sound, and Film: A Meeting of Disciplines.
2. Meaning and Interpretation in Music for Cinema. This will be published by Indiana University Press in the series Meaning and Interpretation of Music, general editor Robert Hatten. As the title suggests, the focus is on analysis and interpretation of music in film, particularly methodological issues. In September 2011, I asked James Buhler to join me as co-author. The goal is to deliver a manuscript by August 2012.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS:
1. Click here to download a PDF file of this volume. THEORY AND HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL EUROPEAN TONAL MUSIC: Formal functions for phrase, theme, and small forms, following William E. Caplin, Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven (Oxford University Press, 1998), summary and examples with related information and data on dance musics and their performance in the same period. This document gathers information from this website in a single searchable PDF file, inserts related material from my now defunct blog Hearing Schubert D779n13, and adds an introduction plus a small amount of other newly written information and commentary. File created 6 June 2011; last edited 10 March 2012.
2. (PROTO-BACKGROUNDS) Hierarchical musical analysis using proto-backgrounds: Go to introduction to proto-backgrounds.
3. (SCHUBERT WALTZ BLOG) Link to the blog: D779n13 blog.Subordinate texts:
a. Beethoven, Menuet, WoO10, no. 1.
b. Beethoven, Menuet, WoO10, no. 2.
c. Application and evaluation of proto-backgrounds for a melody from M. Landrin, Receuil danglaise: Blac Danse.
d. Explanation of "theme" and "thesis" using a passage from Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca: Theme and Thesis.
e. Explanation of "theme" and "thesis" using a poem by Rachel Hadas Genre Clerk: Theme and Thesis.
f. Reading of Mozart, German Dance, K. 602, no. 4, using proto-backgrounds and transformation functions: Mozart, K. 602, no. 4.
g. First entry on proto-backgrounds in the Schubert blog: Proto-backgrounds: introduction.
I am compiling and posting a large number of analyses/readings of the anomalous A-major waltz, no. 13 in the Valses sentimentales, D 779, along with information on its contexts, including dancing practices, improvisation, ascending cadence gestures in early nineteenth-century music, and related topics. Although its overall goals are considerably broader, the blog also serves to supplement discussions of this piece and its contexts in "Description and Interpretation: Fred Lerdahl's Tonal Pitch Space and Linear Analysis," Music Analysis 25/1-2 (2006): 201-30, and the theoretical constructs in "Thematic Reading, Proto-backgrounds, and Transformations," Music Theory Spectrum 31/2 (fall 2009): 284-324. Link to a page that tallies the readings on the blog: Tally.
4. (TONAL FRAMES) Frames and Gestures. Posted 25 July 2008. This web essay has three parts: the first expands on the implications of final-level prolongational reductions (following Lerdahl), the second connects this to ascending cadence gestures, and the third provides additional examples from Schubert dances. Supplementary: Go directly to a page with music facsimiles for dances with rising cadence gestures, from Playford's English Dancing Master: Playford. Supplementary: Go directly to a page with music facsimiles for dances with rising cadence gestures, from contredanse collections in the Royal Danish Library: Buelow.
4a. Schenkerian version of the preceding: Rising lines. Originally posted 2004; last update 05 January 2011.
3b. Complex upper-voice cadential figures: Complex upper-voice figures. Originally posted 2004; last updates in January 2011.
LINKS AND INFORMATION: FILM AND FILM MUSIC1. WAXMAN
Franz Waxman: Concerts of the Los Angeles Music Festival, 1947-1966: "LA Music Festival."
Home page for Franz Waxman, official website.
2. (JOURNAL) MUSIC AND THE MOVING IMAGE: refereed online journal published by University of Illinois Press, available through library or personal subscription: Music and the Moving Image.
Index with abstracts: MaMI Index. 3. BORDWELL
LINKS AND INFORMATION: THEORY AND HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL EUROPEAN TONAL MUSIC:
1. (CAPLIN FUNCTIONS: EXAMPLES) See also Online Publications, no. 1, above. 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
Playford
data gathered
Beethoven, Hummel, and others
2. (TONAL FRAMES; CADENCE MODELS IN HISTORICAL REPERTOIRES)
Frames and Gestures
-- Schenkerian version of the preceding (Rising lines).
Tables of pieces with rising line cadence gestures: Compositions with Rising Lines
Complex upper-voice cadential figures: Complex upper-voice figures.
-- Go directly to a page with music facsimiles for dances with rising cadence gestures, from Playford's English Dancing Master: Playford. 3. (SCHENKER GUIDE) Web publication of an out of print textbook: chapters available online.
4. (ANALYSES) Selected analyses from classes, particularly including harmonic and durational reductions. Go to: Analyses gathered.
1. (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.
2. (TOMLINSON, MENUET, DANCE AND MUSIC) Music from the Menuet engravings that conclude Kellom Tomlinson's The Art of Dancing (1735): Tomlinson menuet.
LISTS AND LINKS TO SUNDRY TOPICS:
1. (HENRY MITCHELL) Garden writer: Henry Mitchell website. I assembled this with assistance from the late Virginia Mitchell and from Nick Weber, an experienced Maryland gardener who knew the Mitchells.
2. ONLINE DOCUMENT SITES for BOOKS or SHEET MUSIC
2a. (SHEET MUSIC AND MANUSCRIPT FACSIMILES ONLINE)
Full text sites:
International Music Score Library Project. This has become the premier site for sheet music, along with CPDL (Choral Public Domain Library).
Library of Congress American Memory Site. Navigate to sheet music 1820-1860, and 1870-1885, and 1850-1920 (Duke Collection). Related sites:
Global Music Archive (Vanderbilt University): Multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas. (link and description from the Harvard site (see the next section below)
Individual Composers:
Hoagy
Carmichael Collection (Indiana University)
Lists of Links to Sheet Music and Music Facsimiles Online:
2b. (TEXTS ONLINE) Full text sites: