Joseph Dubiel
Chair, Department of Music (2005– )
Professor of Music
AB (Princeton 1974)
MFA (1976)
PhD (1980)
Joseph Dubiel came to Columbia in 1990, having previously taught at Princeton U. and the U. of Pittsburgh. Recipient of the SMT Young Scholar Award (1992), a Guggenheim for composition, and other grants, he has served as co-editor of Perspectives of New Music (1995–1999), and co-founder of the SMT Music and Philosophy Study Group. He composes vocal and chamber music, and seeks to consider theory descriptive and interpretive, at least as much as explanatory.
Selected Publications:
"Analysis, description, and what really happens," Music Theory Online 6.3 (August 2000)
"Composer, Theorist, Composer / Theorist," in Rethinking Music (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1999)
"What's the Use of the Twelve-Tone System?" Perspectives of New Music 35/2 (Summer 1997)
"Hearing, Remembering, Cold Storage, Purism, Evidence, and Attitude Adjustment," Current Musicology 60-61 (Spring/Fall 1996)
"On Getting Deconstructed," Music Theory Online 2.2 (March 1996)
"Sense of Sensemaking," Perspectives of New Music 30/1 (Winter 1992)
"Three Essays on Milton Babbitt": [I] "Thick Array/Of Depth Immeasurable"; [II] "For Making This Occasion Necessary"; [III] "The Animation of Lists," Perspectives of New Music 28/2 (Summer 1990), 29/1 (Winter 1991), 30/1 (Winter 1992)
"'When You are a Beethoven': Kinds of Rules in Schenker's Counterpoint," Journal of Music Theory 34 (1990)
Selected Compositions:
*Songs from "The Cell" (Lyn Hejinian) voice, pno (1997)
*New (Gertrude Stein) solo voice (1996)
*You Can't Come in Here, pno (1992)
*Ballade, pno (1992)
*Downtime, bass clt, pno (1990): CD CRC 2661
*Three Songs (Stevens), fem. voice, clt, pno (1988)
*Songs of the Transformed (Margaret Attwood), fem. voice, d-bs: CD CRC 2661
Graduate Courses Taught:
G8231/8234 Seminar in Music Composition
G8340 Seminar in Music Theory: Advanced Analysis
G6231 Proseminar in Music Theory
Graduate/Undergraduate Courses Taught:
G6302/V3302 Introduction to Set Theory
G6305/V3305 Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis/Theories of Heinrich Schenker
G6379/V3379 Twentieth-century Styles and Techniques I/Twentieth-century Music
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
V3241-3242 Advanced Composition I-II V3321-3322 Chromatic Harmony and Counterpoint I-II
V---- Tonal and Post-tonal Analysis
V2310 Diatonic Harmony C1123 Music Humanities
