James DiNardo is a PhD candidate in music theory at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, at the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. He holds a BA in music from the University of Rochester and an MA in humanities studies from the University of Chicago. His dissertation explores how analytical tools or “technologies” impact one’s analytical experience—the decisions, actions, and conclusions one makes when doing analysis. Among the technologies implemented in this study are: paradigmatic analysis, sonata theory, form-functional theory, as well the approaches of Leonard Ratner and Donald Tovey. Other interests include the possibilities for and problematics of extending these approaches to later repertoire, including the music of Alexander Scriabin.
Contact : dinardo@umich.edu
Séance - Formenlehre, Old and New 12.H.3 : Grappling with Form and Function in Mozart’s "Great" C-minor Mass
