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Ryan Minor, Assistant Professor;
Music History and Theory
Email Ryan Minor at: Ryan.minor[at]stonybrook.edu
Ryan Minor's research focuses on nineteenth-century German music, with emphasis on opera, choral music, and music's participation in the public sphere; his interests also encompass analysis and hermeneutics, dramaturgy, and nationalism. His recent and forthcoming publications (Cambridge Opera Journal, 19th-Century Music, Liszt and his World) have focused in particular on the aesthetic and political trajectories of the chorus within the changing landscapes of German musical culture in the nineteenth century. He has also written on recent Wagner scholarship, and recently co-organized a conference on Parsifal. Before coming to Stony Brook, he taught at Williams College and the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. Dr. Minor has received grants from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the DAAD, and in 2003-4 he was a doctoral fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is currently working on a book exploring the musical and political resonance of the chorus in nineteenth-century Germany. His teaching interests include music and art-religion; Brahms, Wagner, and Bruckner; Lieder; aesthetics of the sublime and the monumental; and recent approaches to musical analysis.
Education
University of Chicago: Ph.D., Musicology, 2005
Rice University: B.M., Music History, 1996
Academic Employment
Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University, 2005- present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Williams College, 2004-2005
- Doctoral Fellow, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, 2003-2004
Instructor, University of Chicago, 2000-2003
External Awards and Fellowships
Research Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2007-2008
Invited Participant, Cornell University Summer Faculty Seminar “Operatic States,” funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, 2007
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2005-2006 (declined)
Geiringer Award, American Brahms Society, 2002
Bundeskanzler Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, 2000-2001
Research Grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, 2000-2001 (declined)
Summer Language Grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, 1999
Internal Awards and Fellowships
Individual Grant, Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Science (FAHSS) Steering Group, Stony Brook University, 2006
- Dissertation Fellowship, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, 2003-2004
Katschins Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2002-2003
Melvin Gray Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2001-2002
Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1996-2000
Shepherd Society Scholar, Rice University, 1992-1996
Articles
- Introduction to Lars von Trier’s stage notes to Der Ring des Nibelungen, forthcoming in Opera Quarterly (2008)
“Parsifal’s Promise or Parsifal’s Reality? On the Politics of Voice Exchange in Wagner’s Grail Operas,” Opera Quarterly (2007)
“Zemlinsky und das Kollektiv,” in program book to accompany Der Traumgörgeat the Deutsche Oper Berlin (2007)
“Occasions and Nations in Brahms’s Fest- und Gedenksprüche,” 19th-Century Music 29/3 (2006)
“Prophet and Populace in Liszt’s ‘Beethoven’ Cantatas,” Franz Liszt and his World, ed. Christopher Gibbs and Dana Gooley (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006)
- “Wagner’s Last Chorus: Consecrating Space and Spectatorship in Parsifal,” Cambridge Opera Journal 17/1 (2005)
“Voice,” “Hermeneutics,” “Nationalism,” and “Modernism” entries, New Harvard Dictionary of Music, second edition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003)
Editorial Work
Guest editor, together with Brian Hyer, of special “Parsifal” issue of Opera Quarterly 22/2 (2007)
Reviews
- “When did German Music Lose its Innocence?” Review essay, forthcoming in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association (2007), on: Celia Applegate, Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn’s Revival of the St. Matthew Passion, Stephen Rumph, Beethoven after Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works, and Jeffrey Sposato, The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition
- Review, Cambridge Opera Journal 18/1 (2006), of: Dieter Borchmeyer, Drama and the World of Richard Wagner, trans. Daphne Ellis, and James Treadwell, Interpreting Wagner
- Review of Celia Applegate and Pamela Potter, eds., Music and German National Identity (H-NET Liste für Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, distributed 14 February 2003; available at http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2003-1-088.pdf)
Work in Progress
- Choral Fantasies: Festivity, Nationhood, and the Chorus in Nineteenth-Century Germany (monograph; currently under discussion with publishers)
- “Nuremberg Reimagined: Die Meistersinger in the Parlor,” colloquium at Rice University, March 2007
“The Birth of Germany out of the Spirit of Song, or Music’s Crisis c. 1871,” colloquium at Stony Brook University History Department, December 2006
“Choral Fantasies: Beethoven, von Schwind, and the Aesthetics of Participation,” American Musicological Society, Los Angeles, November 2006, and the 14th International Conference on 19th-Century Music, Manchester, England, July 2006
“Genre, History, and Disciplinarity in Recent Opera Studies,” Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 2005
- “‘Dich nur besingen wir’: Lohengrin, Parsifal, and the Politics of Voice Exchange,” Wagner’s Parsifal and the Performance of Culture, University of Chicago, October 2005 (co-organized conference with Brian Hyer)
- “Brahms, the Triumphlied Op. 55, and the Space of Song,” 11th Annual International Conference on Romanticism, Texas A&M University, October 2004
- “‘Heil ihm! Heil uns!’: Choral Participation in Occasional Works of Felix Mendelssohn,” Symposium on the Composers and Compositions of the Berliner Sing-Akademie, Rhodes College, November 2003
- “‘Solch ein Fest hat uns verbunden’: Music, Festivity and the Chorus in Liszt’s 1845 ‘Beethoven’ Cantata,” colloquium at Washington University in St. Louis, October 2002
“Occasions, Nations, and Disseminations in Brahms’s Op. 109 Fest- und Gedenksprüche,” American Musicological Society, Midwest chapter meeting, Chicago, September 2002
- “Sublimating the Sublime: Communal Passions and the Founding of the German Choral Movement,” “Music and the Passions” conference, University of Chicago, March 2000
- “‘without a center to surround’: Wagner, Die Meistersinger, and the Fantasm of the Chorus,” Lyrica Society conference “Dramaturgy On Stage/In Theory,” Flagstaff, September 1998
- Music and the public sphere
Choral music
Music and religion
Opera and dramaturgy
Musical hermeneutics
Nationalism
Teaching Experience
- Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University, 2005-present
- Undergraduate surveys 1600-1830 and 1830-present; graduate courses on Brahms, the Ring cycle, “Music and/as Religion in the ‘Long’ Nineteenth Century,” and the analysis of 19th-century music
Visiting Assistant Professor, Williams College, 2004-2005
- Taught “Listening to Music” for non-majors, Classical/Romantic survey for majors, “Music and Nationalism,” and a class exploring the politics of operatic dramaturgy
Instructor, Department of Music, University of Chicago:
- Received the university’s Tave Fellowship to design and teach an upper-level undergraduate course entitled “Choirs and Choral Music in Germany and Austria since 1800,” 2003; taught “Introduction to the Analysis and Criticism of Music” and “Introduction to Music,” 2000-2002.
Service
Academic:
Outside reader, Journal of Musicological Research
Stony Brook University:
Fulbright Committee, 2006-present
- Honors College Advisory Committee, 2005-present
Stony Brook Music Department:
Co-chair, Colloquium Committee, 2005-present
20th-Century Search Committee, 2005-2006
- Pre-Concert Talk, Chamber Music Festival, May 2006
20th-Century Search Committee, 2006-2007
Baroque-Classical Search Committee, 2006-2007
Digital Media Search Committee, 2007
Panel Chair at conference “L’Orfeo at 400,” April 2007
- University of Chicago:
- Midwest Graduate Music Consortium: Co-organizer, 1999
Graduate Music Society: Secretary, 1997-1998