David Neumeyer
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- Hearing the Movies:
MY CONTACT INFORMATION
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 2013; 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 2013:
MUS 337: Music in Film Sound. Unique course # 21790. NB: Cari McDonnell is now the instructor of record for this course (as of 1 February 2013). 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. A public copy of the syllabus is available on the University of Texas website.
-- "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. Material from this website and from my blog "Hearing Schubert D779n13" have been gathered in this PDF document: Proto-backgrounds.
-- "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 Deepening Musical Performance Through Movement: The Theory and Practice of Embodied Interpretation by Alexandra Pierce. Indiana Theory Review 27/1 (2009): 79-92.
-- 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:
Books in progress:
Older publications (before 1995).
I have also gathered three collections of posts on a topical basis. These are available as PDF documents here:
Supplementary: Go directly to a page with music facsimiles for dances with rising cadence gestures, from Playford's English Dancing Master: Playford.
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
Marlene and Morton Meyerson Professor in Music
Professor of Music Theory
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. Unique course # 21725. Upper-level undergraduate course in eighteenth-century counterpoint and stylistic writing, with extensions to the twentieth century (Hindemith, Shostakovitch, Shchedrin). A public copy of the syllabus is available 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. Available by individual or institutional subscription. Link. 
-- (textbook) Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History. With James Buhler and Robert Deemer (New York: Oxford University Press). 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.
Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies. Submitted 9 July 2012; in production as of January 2013, pending resolution of three permissions licenses for graphics. Twenty experts are contributing to the project; electronic publication is expected in mid-2013, hardcover in early fall. Many of the authors participated in the Discourses symposium: Discourses of Music, Sound, and Film: A Meeting of Disciplines.
Meaning and Interpretation of Music in Cinema. This monograph is contracted by Indiana University Press for the series Musical Meaning and Interpretation, general editor Robert S. Hatten. As the title suggests, the focus is on analysis and interpretation of music in film, particularly methodological issues. My goal is to deliver a manuscript no later than June 2013.
All publications, 1995-present
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS:
1. (CAPLIN FORM THEORY) 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.
---> CLICK HERE to download a PDF file of this volume. -----
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. Material from this website and from my dormant blog "Hearing Schubert D779n13" have also been gathered in this PDF document: Proto-backgrounds.
3. (SCHUBERT WALTZ BLOGS) 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.
Link to the blogs: D779n13 blog; Dance and Music blog. For two and a half years (off and on), I have been compiling and posting a large number of analyses/readings of the anomalous A-major waltz, no. 13 in the Valses sentimentales, D 779. Link to a page that tallies the readings on the blog: Tally. The blog also provides information on the waltz's contexts, including dancing practices, improvisation, ascending cadence gestures in early nineteenth-century music, and related topics. The blog went dormant in 2011 but I am reviving it as of August 2012. I have now split the blog into two -- see links above. One will continue to focus on analysis, the other on dance and dance musics in the period roughly 1650-1850, but mainly from 1760-1850.
1. D779n13: A Collection of Readings PDF document
2. Schubert, Dance, and Dancing in Vienna, 1815-1840 PDF document
3. Carl Schachter's Critique of the Rising Urlinie; and the Androgynous ^5-^6 PDF document
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. Material from these web pages also been gathered in this PDF document: Tonal frames.
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.
3. (SCHUBERT BLOG) See above: blog and related PDF documents: Hearing Schubert D779n13
4. (DANCE BLOG) Dance and Music blog. See also information in this section above: Hearing Schubert D779n13
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:
Individual Composers:
Hoagy
Carmichael Collection (Indiana University)
Lists of Links to Sheet Music and Music Facsimiles Online:
Multimedia resource:
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)
2b. (TEXTS ONLINE) Full text sites: