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Robert Hatten

• Professor of Music, Jacobs School of Music

Education:

• Ph.D. , Indiana University, 1982
• M.M. , Indiana University, 1975
• B.M. , Baylor University, 1973

Background:

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Ph.D., M.M., Indiana University, 1982, 1975; B.M., Baylor University, 1973. Former faculty member, State University of New York at Buffalo, the University of Michigan, and Pennsylvania State University. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, 1985-86. International reputation for stylistic, semiotic, hermeneutic, and gestural approaches to musical expressive meaning. Publications include Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correllation, and Interpretation (Indiana, 1994, paperback 2004; co-recipient of the 1997 Wallace Berry Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory); Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (Indiana, 2004); interpretive articles on Bruckner, Henze, and Penderecki, theoretical articles on analogues of intertextuality, narrativity, tense, and aspect in music. Current research interests include relationships between analysis, interpretation, and performance; music and the poetic text.

General editor, new book series, "Musical Meaning and Interpretation," with Indiana University Press. Former president, Music Theory Midwest. Served as Vice-President and as member of the Executive Board, Program Committee, and Publication Awards Committee of the Society for Music Theory. Current President, Semiotic Society of America. Editorial board member of Music Theory Online (2 years), Arietta, and the Journal of Musical Meaning. Member of Scientific Committee for International Congress on Musical Signification (2004 and 2008). Librettist for Brian Boru and Bonhoeffer (Prof. Ann K. Gebuhr, composer) and Lorenzo de' Medici (Prof. P. Q. Phan, composer).