Joel Galand

                After violin studies with Kenneth Sarch, Sarah Scriven, and Roman Totenberg, Joel Galand matriculated at Yale University, where he earned the B.A. ( cum laude ), M. Phil., and Ph.D. degrees.   He completed his doctoral dissertation, Heinrich Schenker's Theory of Form and its Application to Historical Criticism , under the supervision of Allen Forte.    He has taught at Yale, Notre Dame, and the University of Rochester, where he was affiliated with both the undergraduate College Music Department (a liberal arts program) and the Eastman School (a professional school of music).   He arrived at FIU in the fall of 2004.   He is past editor of The Journal of Music Theory and has served on various boards and committees for The Society for Music Theory and the Music Theory Society of New York State.

                In his dissertation and in subsequent articles and book chapters (in MusicTheory Spectrum , The Journal of Music Theory , Intégral , and Schenker Studies III ), Galand has worked on applying Schenkerian theory to broader historical questions about style, form, and genre.   One of his articles in this area won the Society for Music Theory's Young Scholar Award ( http://www.societymusictheory.org/html/journals-discussion/newsletter/SMT.NL20.1/publications.html ).   His research on musical form touches on the history of musical theory and aesthetics, an area he has addressed more specifically in articles and reviews appearing in Current Musicology , Intégral , and Music Theory Spectrum (forthcoming).   For a working paper in this area, originally an invited paper delivered at a plenary session of The Midwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, click here

                A further area of research has concerned musical theater.   Galand's critical edition of Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin's previously unpublished operetta, The Firebrand of Florence , has appeared as part of the new Weill Edition ( http://www.kwf.org/pages/kwe/kwe_firebrand.html ).   Published in three volumes, the edition includes an introductory monograph that explores the work from a variety of perspectives:   philology, biography, genre, analysis, reception, and performance practice.   A separate volume, the Critical Report, provides details on the sources, their interaction in establishing the text, and the specific editorial decisions reached in each number.   A recording of the edition by the BBC Symphony and soloists under the direction of Sir Andrew Davis (Capriccio 60-091) has just been released.     Galand has helped prepare several productions of the work, the only ones since the composer's death, including performances at the London Barbicon Center, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the Ohio Light Opera.   The German premier, in Dessau, is scheduled for 2005.   Galand's research on Weill also appears in The Kurt Weill Newsletter and Notes .   He recently accepted an invitation to write a book on Weill's Broadway works for Yale University Press.                

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