Lee Rothfarb's Home Page

This is a starter home page for Lee Rothfarb, Associate Professor of Music Theory in the Music Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and currently department chair.

My research focuses on the music-analytical writings and compositions of August Halm (1869-1929), and in general on music and topics in the history of music theory of the tonal period.

A listing of courses I offer is available at this page.

Here are my main publications:

Ernst Kurth as Theorist and Analyst, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.

Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

August Halm: A Critical and Creative Life in Music, University of Rochester Press, 2009.

"Halm and Schenker: Culture, Politics, Aesthetics." Festschrift Hellmut Federhofer zum 100. Geburtstag, ed. Axel Beer. Tutzing: Schneider, 2011, 401-18.

“Kontrapunkt in Wort und Tat bei August Halm,” Musik-Konzepte Sonderband, Philosophe des Kontrapunkts XI/2010, edition text+kritik, ed. Ulrich Tadday, 143-61.

“Anton Bruckner – symphonischer Sisyphos oder drittkultureller Herold?” (forthcoming, 2010)

“August Halm on Body and Spirit in Music,”19th Century Music 29.2 (fall, 2005), 121-141(abstract)

“Nineteenth-Century Fortunes of Musical Formalism” (abstract) (forthcoming, Journal of Musik Theory 55.2 [2012])

“August Halm als Kompositionsschüler Gabriel Josef Rheinbergers.” Joef Rheinberger, Werk und Wirkung, ed. Stephan Hörner and Hartmut Schick. Tutzing: Schneider, 2004, 205-24 (Rheinberger-Symposium, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, October, 2001)

“Music and Mirrors: Misconceptions and Misrepresentations,” Music in the Mirror: Reflections on the History of Music Theory and Literature for the 21st Century, ed. Andreas Giger and Thomas J. Mathiesen Lincoln-London: Univeristy of Nebraska Press, 2002, 233-245.

“Energetics,” Cambridge History of Western Music Theory, ed. Thomas Christensen, Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2002, 927-955.

“August Halm,” New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

“Zwischen Originalität und Ideologie: Die Musik von August Halm (1869-1929),” Musik in Baden-Württemberg, Jahrbuch 1998, 175-199.

“Musik und Theologie: August Halm am Kreuzungspunkt seines beruflichen und schöpferischen Weges,” Musik in Baden-Württemberg, Jahrbuch 1996, 115-134.

“Music Analysis, Cultural Ethics, and Sociology in the Writings of August Halm,” Indiana Theory Review 16 (1995), 171-96.

“Beethoven's Formal Dynamics: August Halm's Phenomenological Perspective,” Beethoven Forum 5 (1996), 65-84.

“The `New Education' and Music Theory, 1900-1925,” Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past, Chicago University Press, 1993.

“Hermeneutics and Energetics: Music-Theoretical Alternatives in the Early 1900's,” Journal of Music Theory 36.1 (1992), 43-68.

"Ernst Kurth's Die Voraussetzungen der theoretischen Harmonik and the Beginnings of Music Psychology," Theoria 4 (1989), 10-33.

“Ernst Kurth in Historical Perspective: His Intellectual Inheritance and Music Theoretical Legacy,” Schweizer Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft 6-7 (1986-87), 23-42.

“Tinctoris vs. Tinctoris: Theory and Practice of Dissonance in Counterpoint,” In Theory Only 9.2-3 (1986), 3-31.

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