Join us for a lecture by Patricia Hall (Prof. Emeritus of Music, Department of Music Theory) in honor of her 2024 Teaching Excellence Award from the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

"Music manuscripts revealing a composer’s compositional process can give valuable insights to undergraduate students, even in their early stages of study. In this presentation I examine manuscripts by Beethoven, Berg and Bartholomew and discuss ways that a compositional approach to music theory instruction might engender a more open and creative atmosphere while still incorporating the rigor of harmony and voice-leading rules."

PATRICIA HALL is the author of A View of Berg’s Lulu Through the Autograph Sources (University of California Press, 1997, winner of the ASCAP Deems-Taylor Award), Berg’s Wozzeck (Oxford University Press, 2011), co-editor with Friedemann Sallis of A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and general editor of The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship (Oxford University Press, 2017). Hall founded the online journal Music & Politics and was editor from 2007 to 2017. She served as the president of the Society for Music Theory from 2019 through 2021. She has been researching manuscripts at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum for the last eight years and was recently interviewed on PBS News Hour. Performances of the Music from Auschwitz manuscripts will be taking place in January 2025 for International Holocaust Remembrance Day at Wigmore Hall, London, Music of Remembrance, Seattle, and at the Auschwitz and Dachau Memorials.

https://smtd.umich.edu/smtd-announces-recipients-of-2024-teaching-awards/