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Bent, Ian

About Me
Position/Title:
Professor Emeritus

Ian Bent, Professor Emeritus

Ian Bent came to Columbia in 1986, having taught previously at the U. of London King's College, Harvard U., and the U. of Nottingham, where he was Professor and Chair of Music. He is general editor of the series Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis, and an area editor for The New Grove Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition. He retired in 2003. His current research interests lie in the field of the history of music theory, especially in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries; but he has interests also in contemporary music, in the Middle Ages, and in Hildegard of Bingen.

Graduate Courses Taught:
G8111 Seminar in Historical Musicology: the 20th Century (Boulez)
G8313 Seminar in the History of Music Theory: Baroque and Classical
G8315 Seminar in the History of Music Theory: the Romantic Period
G8317 Seminar in the History of Music Theory: the 20th Century
G6300 Introduction to the History of Theory G6109 Music Paleography
W4700 Postmodernism in Music Undergraduate

Courses Taught:
V3148 Romantic Song
V2152 Smetana, Dvorak, and Janecek
V2027 The String Quartet
C/F 1123 Music Humanities

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