ROBERT SNARRENBERG

EDUCATION

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ph. D. in Music Theory, 1991
University of Cincinnati, M. Mus. in Music Theory, 1985
Covenant College, Lookout Mtn., Tennessee, B. Mus. in Piano, 1979

AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

The Young Scholar Award, Society for Music Theory, 1998.
Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995
Faculty Research Grant, Washington University in St. Louis, 1994-95
Jacob Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 1987-89
National Graduate Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 1986-87
Regents Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1985-86

TEACHING POSTS

Washington University in St. Louis

Department Chair, 2000-2005
Associate Professor, 1996-
Assistant Professor, 1991-96
Instructor, 1990-91
Visiting Instructor, 1989-90

WRITINGS AND PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Schenker's Interpretive Practice. Cambridge Studies in the Theory and Analysis of Music no. 11, ed. Ian Bent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

"Schenker, Heinrich." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, rev. ed. 2001.

"More on the Art of Translating Schenker: A Commentary on The Masterwork in Music, vols. 2 and 3." Music Analysis. Forthcoming.

"The Art of Translating Schenker: A Commentary on The Masterwork in Music, vol. 1." Music Analysis 15 (2-3) (1996): 301-42.

"Competing Myths: The American Abandonment of Schenker's Organicism." In Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music, ed. Anthony Pople (Cambridge University Press, 1994), 30-58.

"Schenker's Senses of Concealment." Theoria 6 (1992): 97-133.

"Zen and the Way of Soundscroll." Perspectives of New Music 30 (1) (1992): 222-37.

"The Play of Différance: Brahms's Intermezzo, Op. 118, No. 2." In Theory Only 10 (3) (1987): 1-25.

"Hearings of Webern's 'Bewegt.'" Perspectives of New Music 24 (2) (1986): 386-404.

TRANSLATIONS

Heinrich Schenker, Der Tonwille. Ed. William Drabkin. Trans. Ian Bent, William Drabkin, Joseph Dubiel, Joseph Lubben, and Robert Snarrenberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

"Die Urlinie: Eine Vorbemerkung" (1:22-26)
"Franz Schubert: 'Ihr Bild'" (1:46-49)
"Gesetze der Tonkunst" (2:3)
"Geschichte der Tonkunst" (2:3-4)
"Noch ein Wort zur Urlinie" (2:4-6)
"Haydn: Sonate Es-Dur" (3:3-21)
"Die Kunst zu Höhren" (3:22-25)
"Der wahre Vortrag" (6:36-40)
"Beethoven: Sonate opus 57" (7:3-33)
"Wirkung und Effekt" (8-9:47-48)

TEXTBOOKS

An Introduction to Tonal Thinking. With Marion A. Guck. Manuscript.

Ideas about Music. 1991. With Roland Jordan. Manuscript in use at Washington University.

MISCELLANEOUS

Liner notes. Yizhak Schotten, Viola. Crystal Records, CD635, 1989.

Editorial ["The Name 'Theory'"]. In Theory Only 10 (6) (1988): 1-5.

Editorial ["Theory Ignores Recent Music"]. In Theory Only 10 (4) (1987): 1-3.

Editorial ["Is There a Feminist Music Theory?"]. In Theory Only 9 (8) (1987): 3-4. Co-signed by Mauro Botelho and Nadine Hubbs.

Editorial ["A Plea for Pluralism"]. In Theory Only 9 (7) (1987): 3-4.