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Jamuna Samuel
20th Century History and Theory
Ph.D., Graduate Center, CUNY (2005)
E-mail: jamuna.samuel@stonybrook.edu
Research interests focus on twentieth-century Italian music and its historical-cultural context, Luigi Dallapiccola, the twelve-tone technique, text-music issues, and the interaction between performance and analysis. Currently writing an article on Dallapiccola's opera The Prisoner. Has presented on issues of text and twelve-tone process at the national meeting of the Society for Music Theory.
Besides basic and advanced courses in harmony and form, she has also taught on a variety of issues in twentieth-century Italian music, including opera, film, the interaction between art and music, and popular music traditions.
Holds degrees in music from Yale (B.A., M.A.) and The Graduate Center, CUNY (Ph.D.). Previously taught as visiting assistant professor at Wellesley College, as T.A. at Harvard, where she twice earned awards for excellence in teaching, and as lecturer at Yale.
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2005: Ph.D., Music Theory, The City University of New York Dissertation title: “Music, Text, and Drama in Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero”
1998: M.A., Music, Yale University
1996: B.A., Music, Yale College
EMPLOYMENT
2005-06: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wellesley College Department of Music (Introduction to the Language of Music; Harmonic Concepts in Tonal Music; Puccini to Sciarrino: Twentieth-Century Art Music in Italy)
2005: Visiting Instructor, Wellesley College Department of Music (Introduction to the Language of Music; Harmonic Concepts in Tonal Music)
2000-03: Teaching Assistant, Harvard University Department of Music (Performance and Analysis: Seminar; Theory II; Music appreciation)
2000: Lecturer, Yale University Department of Music (Elements of Music)
AWARDS
2001 and 2002: Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
2006: National Meeting of the Society for Music Theory (Los Angeles): Text and twelve-tone process in Dallapiccola’s The Prisoner
ARTICLES IN PROGRESS:
Theatrical words and twelve-tone process in Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero
Self-quotation and narrative in Dallapiccola’s triptych of protest works
INVITED GUEST LECTURES in seminars
2007: Harvard University Department of Music: Lecture on Dallapiccola’s Volo di notte and Il Prigioniero
2005: Graduate Center, CUNY: Lecture/discussion on twelve-tone organization of Il Prigioniero