Department of Music Faculty
Peter Kaminsky, PhDAssociate Professor of Music (Theory)(860) 486-2758 Peter Kaminsky taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Louisiana State University before joining the University of Connecticut faculty in 1993. He is area coordinator for History/Theory and supervises the first-year theory program. Courses he teaches include freshman theory, form and analysis, Schenkerian theory and analysis, and special topics in analysis. Research interests include text-music relationships, music of the early twentieth century, Schenkerian theory and analysis, the music of Ravel and methodological issues in analysis. Kaminsky serves as chair of the Program Committee of the Society for Music Theory. Selected Publications"Of Princesses, Children, Dreams and Isomorphisms: Text-Music Transformation in Ravel's Vocal Works." Music Analysis 19.1, March 2000. "Ravel's songs and the lures of exoticism and irony." In The Ravel Companion, ed. Deborah Mawer, Cambridge University Press, 2000. "Revenge of the boomers: some notes on the analysis of rock music." Music Theory Online 6.3, 2000. CD liner notes. Ravel's solo piano music: Miroirs, Valses nobles et sentimentales, and Le tombeau de Couperin, performed by Steven Osborne. Musical Heritage Society, 515720Z. "Piano Cycles in Different Editions." Clavier 37.1, January 1998. "How to Do Things With Words and Music: Towards an Analysis of Selected Ensembles in Mozart's Don Giovanni," Theory and Practice 21 (1996). "Practical Alternatives in Learning New Scores" (with Jeffrey Renshaw). The Instrumentalist 49.3, October 1994. "The Popular Album as Song Cycle: Paul Simon's 'Still Crazy After All These Years.' " College Music Symposium 32. 1992. "Principles of Formal Structure in Schumann's Early Piano Cycles." Music Theory Spectrum 11.2 Fall 1989. |