For past and upcoming conference presentations, please scroll down the page.
Publications
“Manfred Stahnke,” in Grove Music Online (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
“Tonality Diamond Reflections: The Linked Philosophies, Aesthetics, and Theories of Harry Partch and Manfred Stahnke,” in Just Writings: Perspectives on Harry Partch, ed. S. Andrew Granade (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, forthcoming).
Review of Drew, Rob, Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable. H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews. May, 2024.
Review of Marc Masters’s. book: High Bias; The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape. H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews, February 2024.
"Just Intonation, Dastgāh-Music, and Scordatura in Kupferteich" in Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful V (Salzburg: Mackinger-Verlag)
"The Lineage from Harry Partch to Manfred Stahnke" in Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful IV (Salzburg: Mackinger-Verlag)
"Saxonality: Laurent Estoppey and Navid Bargrizan in Conversation," (co-authored with Laurent Estoppey) in Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful III (Salzburg: Mackinger-Verlag), June 2021
"Hybrid Meloharmonic Structures in Manfred Stahnke's Dramatic Works," in Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful - I (Salzburg: Makinger-Verlag, 2019), 51-66.
“Parallel Trajectories in Manfred Stahnke’s Operas,” eContact! Online Journal for Electroacoustic Practices 18,
no. 4 (2017), http://econtact.ca/18_4/bargrizan_stahnke.html.
“The Monkey is Amused to Death: Roger Waters’s Masterpiece and its Commercial Failure,” in Systematische Musikwissenschaft: Popular Music Studies Today, ed. Julia Merrill (Heidelberg: Springer, 2017), 25–33.
Review of S. Andrew S. Granade’s book: Harry Partch, Hobo Composer, Journal of the Society for American Music 11, no. 2 (2017), 235–238.
Review of Kepler Quartet’s CD of Ben Johnston’s String Quartets nos. 6, 7, 8, Journal of the Society for
American Music 11, no. 1, (2017), 118–120.
“Technology, Microtones, and Mediation in Manfred Stahnke’s Orpheus Kristall,” Müzik-Bilim Dergisi: The
Journal of Musicology 1, no. 6 (2015), 11–28.
Interview with Don Freund, composer-in-residence of the 50th Anniversary National Conference of the
Society of Composers, Inc., Newsletter of Society of Composers, Inc., XLV, no. 4 (2015), 1–6.
“Digital Media and Intermediality in Manfred Stahnke’s Orpheus Kristall,” in Proceedings of MUSICULT ‘15
Music and Cultural Studies Conference (Istanbul: Istanbul Technical University, 2015), 367–375.
“A New Opera Concept: An Identity Quest Mediated by Digital Media and Microtones in Manfred Stahnke’s
Orpheus Kristall,” in Proceedings of the 9th Conference for Interdisciplinary Musicology (Berlin: Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung, 2014), 43–47.
Doctoral Dissertation
"Microtonality, Technology, and (Post)Dramatic Structures in the Theatrical Music of Harry Partch and Manfred Stahnke," 2018, University of Florida, doctoral advisor: Dr. Silvio dos Santos
Master's Thesis
"Aspekte Mikrotonaler Komposition," 2012, Universität Hamburg, advisor: Dr. Albrecht Schneider
Upcoming Conference Presentations
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Past Conference Presentations
"Luigi Nono's La Fabbrica Illuminata and its Controversial Politics," 13th Biennale International Conference on Music Since 1900, University of Leuven, Belgium, September 13–15, 2024
“Nonexistent Fundamentals and Distant Partials as the Source of Tuning and Pitch Inception,” Conference: "Microtonal Village," New York City, September 20–23, 2024
"Gÿorgy Ligeti and his Legacy," Conference: European Artists in Post-War Exile, University of Florida,
March 8–9, 2024
“Nonexistent Fundamentals and Distant Partials as the Source of Tuning and Pitch Inception,” Music Theory Southeast and South-Central Society for Music Theory Join conference, Lipscomb University, USA, March 15–16, 2024
"Luigi Nono's La Fabbrica Illuminata and its Controversial Politics," American Musicological Society Southeast Chapter, Virginia Tech, September 23, 2023
"Just Intonation, Dast-gah Music, and Scordatura in Kupferteich," 2023 Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful Symposium,
International Ekmelic Music Society, Mozarteum University Salzburg, Austria, June 30–July 2, 2023
"Carla Henius's Phenomenology of the 'ingrate Business with Modern Opera'" at the American Musicological Society National Conference, Nov. 10–13, 2022, New Orleans
"Carla Henius's Phenomenology of the 'ingrate Business with Modern Opera'," Fall 2022 conference of the American Musicological Society Midwest Chapter, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA, October 15–16, 2022
"Carla Henius's Phenomenology of the 'ingrate Business with Modern Opera'", 2022 conference of the American Musicological Society, Southern Chapter, Gainesville, Florida, University of Florida, February 25–26, 2022
"Carla Henius's Phenomenology of the 'ingrate Business with Modern Opera'", 2021 National Conference of the German Studies Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, September 30–October 2, 2021
"From Monophony to Meloharmony: How Harry Partch Influenced Manfred Stahnke," Society for Music Theory, Jacksonville, Florida, November 2–7 2021
"From Monophony to Melo-Harmony: How Harry Partch Influenced Manfred Stahnke," Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful Symposium, International Ekmelic Music Society, Mozarteum Universität Salzburg, June 30–July 4, 2021
"Forty Years of Sociopolitical Protest: Roger Waters’s Concept Albums as Manifesto against Indifference," "Music and Resistance" conference, the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Complesso Monumentale di San Micheletto, Lucca, Italy, December 11-13, 2020
"Corporeal Witchery and Criticism of the Contemporary Culture in Harry Partch's Postdramatic Dance Ritual The Bewitched," at the American Musicological Society 2020 Annual Meeting, Music and Dance Study Group, Minneapolis, November 5-8, 2020
"Corporeal Witchery and Criticism of the Contemporary Culture in Harry Partch's Postdramatic Dance Ritual The Bewitched," at the joint online meeting of the American Musicological Society Southwestern Chapter and Texas Music Library Association, September 24-26, 2020
"Corporeal Witchery and Criticism of the Contemporary Culture in Harry Partch's Postdramatic Dance Ritual The Bewitched," at the 46th annual conference of the Society for American Music, Minneapolis, March 25-29, 2020.
"From Monophony to Meloharmony: How Harry Partch Influenced Manfred Stahnke," Society of Composers Inc., Region VI, San Antonio, February 6-8, 2020
"Narrative and Mises-en-scène in Manfred Stahnke’s Postdramatic Theatrical Music," at fall 2019 American Musicological Society Southwestern Chapter Conference, Texas Christian University at Fort Worth, October 5, 2019
"Microtonal Pentatonic Scales as the Source for Pictures at the Micro-Exhibition," "Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful" symposium, Mozarteum University, Salzburg, June 28-30, 2019
"Forty Years of Socio-Political Protest: Roger Waters’s Concept Albums as Manifesto against Indifference," "Balancing the Mix" conference, University of Memphis, March 30, 2019
"Forty Years of Socio-Political Protest: Roger Waters’s Concept Albums as Manifesto against Indifference," American Musicological Society, Southern Chapter Conference, North Florida University, February 22-23, 2019
"Polymodality, Polyphony, and Microtonality in Hamidreza Dibazar's Persian Quartet," Joint conference of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory, SMT Global New Music Research Interest Group, San Antonio, November 1-4, 2018
"Narrative and Mises-en-scène in Manfred Stahnke’s Postdramatic Theatrical Music," Conference of the German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, September 28, 2018
"Forty Years of Socio-Political Protest: Roger Waters’s Concept Albums as Manifesto against Indifference," isaScience 2018," Participatory Approaches to Music & Democracy," International Summer Academy of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Reichenau, Austria, August 11, 2018
"Harry Partch: A 'Visionary Prophet' or a 'Latter-day Don Quixote',"
2018 Conference of the Society for American Music, Kansas City, February 28 - March 4, 2018
"Narrative and Mises-en-scène in Manfred Stahnke’s Postdramatic Theatrical Music," American Musicological Society Southern Chapter, Louisiana State University, February 16-17, 2018
"Microtonality, Technology, and (Post)Dramatic Structures in the Theatrical Music of Harry Partch and Manfred Stahnke," University of Florida, Center for the Humanities and the Public Spheres, February 1, 2018
"The Monkey is Amused to Death: Roger Water's Masterpiece and its Commercial Failure," 19th bi-annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, University of Kassel, Germany, June 26-30, 2017
"Challenging the Single and Rigid Microtonal Configuration in the Contemporary Music," “Mikrotöne: Small is beautiful” Symposium 2017, International Ekmelic Music Society, Mozarteum University, Salzburg, June 30th - July 2nd , 2017
"The Monkey is Amused to Death: Roger Water's Masterpiece and its Commercial Failure," Music in Action Conference, UCLA, April 27-29, 2017
"Harry Partch: A 'Visionary Prophet' or a 'Latter-day Don Quixote',"
The Conference of the American Musicological Society Southern Chapter, University of Southern Mississippi, February 17-18, 2017
"Harry Partch: A 'Visionary Prophet' or a 'Latter-day Don Quixote',"
The joint meeting of the Northern California and Pacific Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, April 29-30
"Microtonality, Technology, and Dramatic Narrative in Manfred Stahnke's Opera"
Toronto International Electroacoustic Music Symposium 2016, August 10-13, 2016
"Mozart's Don Giovanni as a Prototype for German Romantic Tragedy"
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The 39th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association
1 - 4 October 2015 Washington D.C. Program 2016 Conference of the American Musicological Society Southern Chapter 19-20 February Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, Florida Program |
The Conference of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
26 - 28 February 2015 University of Florida: Gainesville, Florida Program |
"Manfred Stahnke's Innovative Meloharmonic Structures in Orpheus Kristall"
International Ekmelik Music Society in cooperation with Mozarteum University -- Microtones: Small is Beautiful Symposium
3 - 5 July 2015
Salzburg, Austria
Program
3 - 5 July 2015
Salzburg, Austria
Program
"Corporeality as the Foundation of Harry Partch's Creative Oeuvre"
"Technology and Mediation in Manfred Stahnke's Orpheus Kristall"
“A New Opera Concept:
An Identity Quest Mediated by Digital media and Microtones in Manfred Stahnke’s Orpheus Kristall”
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The 9th Conference for Interdisciplinary Musicology
4 - 6 December 2014 National Institute of Music Research (Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung) Berlin, Germany Program American Musicological Society, New England Chapter Winter Meeting, 8 March 2014 Boston Conservatory Program |
The Conference of the Graduate Association of Musicologists and Theorists (GAMuT)
University of North Texas, Denton September 2014 Program |