Department Affiliations
Specialties
- music of the twentieth century
- text and music
- tonal and posttonal theory and analysis
Publications
- Schoenberg's Musical Imagination. Cherlin, Michael, Cambridge University Press, Author, 2007.
- The Great Tradition: Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe. Cherlin, Michael, Richard Rudolph & Halina Filopowicz, Berghahn Press, 2003.
- Motive and Memory in Schoenberg's First String Quartet: Cherlin, Michael, The Music of My Future: The Schoenberg Quartets and Trio, 61-80, 2000.
- Musical Transformation and Musical Intuition: A Festschrift in honor of David Lewin. Cherlin, Michael, Raphael Atlas, Ovenbird Press, 1994.
- Dialectical Opposition in Schoenberg's Music and Thought: Cherlin, Michael, Music Theory Spectrum, 22(2) 157-176, 2000.
- Crossing the Millennium with Elliott Carter: A review of Elliott Carter: Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995: Cherlin, Michael, Music Theory Spectrum, 23(1) 90-98, 2001.
- Three Challenges for Music Theory in our Time: Cherlin, Michael, Integral, 5(1) 14, 2004.
- Memory and Rhetorical Trope in Schoenberg's String Trio: Cherlin, Michael, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 51(3) 559-602, 1998.
- Judith Lang Zaimont's Chamber Music for Winds: A Quintet of Quintets: Cherlin, Michael, The Clarinet: The Quarterly Journal of the International Clarinet Association, 28(3) , 2001.
- Review of Jeanne Bamberger, Developing Musical Intuitions: Cherlin, Michael, Music Theory Spectrum, 2003.
- An article/review of Walter Frisch, The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg: 1893-1908: Cherlin, Michael, 19th-Century Music, 174-185, 1995.
- “The String Quartet of 1897 and Verklärte Nacht: Schoenberg and the Tradition of Chamber Music for Strings.”: Cherlin, Michael, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg, 2008.
Professional Activities
- Member, Editoral boards of Integral and Theory and Practice
- Member, Executive Board of the Society for Music Theory: 2000 - 2002
- Chair, Course Review Committee, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota: 2002
- Member, Graduate School, Language, Literature and Arts Policy and Review Committee, University of Minnesota: 2002
- Past President and local arrangements person for Music Theory Midwest: 2002
- Reader/Consultant for the Journal of the American Musicological Society and for American Music Review
- Member of the Editorial Board for Music Theory Spectrum: 2003 - 2006
Awards
- Travel fund, Center for Austrian Studies, 2002
- Travel fund, Office of International Program, 2002
- McKnight International Travel Fund, 2002
- McKnight sabbatical augmentation, 2002 - 2003
- Editorial Board of Music Theory Spectrum, 2003 - 2005
- Endowed Chair in Music, University of Alabama, Spring 2007 - Spring 2007
- Faculty member, Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory, Summer 2007 - Summer 2007
- McKnight Research Award, 2006 - 2009
- National Endowment for the Humanities, summer stipend, summer 2005 - summer 2005
Courses Taught
- MUS 5597 - Music and Text
- MUS 8590 - The String Quartet in the 20th Century
- MUS 8590 - Recent Music for Mixed Ensembles
- MUS 8590 - Readings in Contemporary Music Theory
- MUS 8580 - Beethoven's String Quartets
- MUS 8580 - Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni
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