Matthew Greenbaum

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Matthew Jonathan Greenbaum (born February 12, 1950) is an American musician, composer and author.

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Background

Born in New York City, Greenbaum studied privately with Stefan Wolpe, and Mario Davidovsky at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He holds a Ph.D. in Composition from the Graduate Center (1985), and has served as a professor of music composition at Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance since 1998. [1]

Since 1999 Greenbaum has worked with computer animation to create hybrid works of visual music, as well as chamber music with a video component. Greenbaum has also written on Claude Debussy, Arnold Schoenberg and Edgard Varèse in relation to Wolpe's dialectical and "cubist" approach to musical structure. He is the curator of Amphibian, a new music and video series in the Hi Art Gallery in New York City. [2] [ failed verification ]

Music

Greenbaum's most significant work is Nameless, a 25-minute wordless psalm for three sopranos and two chamber ensembles. It was composed for the Momenta Quartet and the Cygnus Ensemble, and bears a quotation from the Medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides. [3]

Awards

Greenbaum's awards include the following: [2]

Selected works

Solo instrument

Solo instrument with piano

Chamber music

Chamber music with voice

Orchestral music

Theater works

Visual music (video animation and electronic sound)

With instruments/voice

Recordings

Articles

Greenbaum is the author of the following articles:

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References

  1. "Matthew J. Greenbaum". Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University. 4 March 2019. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Matthew Greenbaum". American Composers Alliance . Retrieved August 9, 2021.
  3. "Nameless: Works by Matthew Greenbaum". New Focus Recordings.
  4. "Supplemental Issue – Milton Babbit: A Composer's Memorial". Perspectives of New Music . 49 (2S). Spring 2012. JSTOR   10.7757/persnewmusi.49.issue-2s.
  5. "New Music Box". Archived from the original on 2016-03-16.
  6. Greenbaum, Matthew (Summer 2002). "Stefan Wolpe's Dialectical Logic: A Look at the 'Second Piece for Violin Alone'". Perspectives of New Music . 40 (2): 91–114. JSTOR   25164488.