Suzannah Clark

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Suzannah Clark (b February 3, 1969) is a Canadian-British musicologist and music theorist specializing in the music of Franz Schubert, the history of music theory, and medieval music. She is currently Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and in 2019 was named Harvard College Professor at Harvard University [1] [2] and from 2016–2019 served as chair of the Music Department at Harvard. [3]

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Clark grew up in Newfoundland, Canada and England. Educated at King's College London, Princeton University, and the Humboldt University Berlin, she took up a Junior Research Fellowship, and then a British Academy Research Fellowship at Merton College Oxford. [4] [5] Between 2000 and 2008 she taught at the Faculty of Music at Oxford University. In 2008 she moved to Harvard University, [6] where she had first taught as a visiting professor the previous year. [7]

Clark’s main research has focused on Schubert analysis. Originally beginning with an analysis of the harmonically symmetrical properties of his instrumental forms, Clark’s study soon encompassed the forms of Schubert’s songs as well. [7] Her interest in the properties of diatonicism and tonal spaces has also fed much of her work in the history of music theory, notably in her studies of Arthur von Oettingen and Heinrich Schenker. Clark’s work on medieval music originally focused on the music of the thirteenth century, the trouvères, the genre of refrains, but now centers broadly on questions of textuality, performance, and musical analysis.

Clark serves on the advisory boards of Music Analysis and Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and she was an associate director of the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM). [8] She was Reviews Editor for the Journal of the American Musicological Society. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Suzannah Clark, Professor of Music, Harvard Scholar, retrieved 2017-12-27
  2. ↑ "Khurana to Co-Chair Committee Reevaluating Social Group Policy". The Harvard Crimson . 2017-03-08. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  3. ↑ Suzanna Clark, The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard, retrieved 2017-12-27
  4. ↑ Newbould, Brian (2017-07-05). Schubert Studies. Routledge. p. 111. ISBN   9781351549943.
  5. ↑ "Postdoctoral Fellowships Results of the 1969 competition". British Academy . Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  6. ↑ "SMT 2014 Ballot". Society for Music Theory. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  7. 1 2 "Suzannah Clark: New Constructs for Analyzing Schubert" (PDF). Music Newsletter. Harvard University Department of Music. 2009. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  8. ↑ "Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music: News". 2008-10-06. Archived from the original on 2008-10-06. Retrieved 2017-12-31.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  9. ↑ "AMS—Journal of the American Musicological Society". www.ams-net.org. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  10. ↑ Muxfeldt, Kristina (September 2012). "Review of Suzannah Clark, Analyzing Schubert (Cambridge University Press, 2011)" (PDF). Music Theory Online. 18 (3).
  11. ↑ Block, Geoffrey (2012). "Review of Analyzing Schubert; Vanishing Sensibilities: Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann; Schubert's Fingerprints: Studies in the Instrumental Works". Notes. 69 (2): 292–303. JSTOR   23358749.
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