Roger Kamien

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Roger Kamien (born 1934) is a professor emeritus of musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Music: An Appreciation, widely used as a textbook on the basics of music.

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Biography

Roger Kamien was born in Paris and raised in America. Kamien studied piano with Claudio Arrau and Nadia Reisenberg, and Schenkerian analysis with Felix Salzer and Ernst Oster. [1] He obtained a doctorate degree from Princeton University in 1964. [2] Kamien immigrated to Israel in 1980. [3] He and his wife, Anita, a conductor and pianist, have three children. [4] His daughter, Adina Kamien, is an art curator who has organized many exhibitions at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Music career

Kamien taught at Hunter College and then at Queens College, New York for twenty years. In 1980, after moving to Israel, he began teaching at Bar-Ilan University. In 1983, he was appointed to the Zubin Mehta Chair of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [5]

Kamien developed the concept of the listening outline, which he incorporated into the first edition of Music: An Appreciation and has refined and enhanced in subsequent editions. This is a text intended for students of all levels and backgrounds. [6] The book, which comes bundled with a multimedia CD-ROM has been published in 16 editions to date.

Kamien is the editor of Norton Scores and the author of numerous academic articles on musicology. His textbook on music appreciation, published by McGraw-Hill, is used in high schools and colleges to provide a basis for understanding classical and modern music.

Awards and recognition

Bach to Brahms: Essays on Musical Design and Structure, a volume of fifteen essays published in 2015, was dedicated to Kamien for his contribution to music theory and teaching. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Jerusalem Music Centre
  2. ↑ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  3. ↑ Israeli string ensemble to play Twerski music in Milwaukee
  4. ↑ Music: An Appreciation, About the author
  5. ↑ Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology
  6. ↑ Kamien, Roger (20 February 2017). Music: An Appreciation: Roger Kamien. McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN   978-1259892707.
  7. ↑ Boydell & Brewer, Bach to Brahms: Essays on Musical Design and Structure

Further reading

Reviews of his books:

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