- Bernard Bachrach
- Andrea M. Berlin
- Bruno Chaouat
- Michael Cherlin
- Gary B. Cohen
- Maria Damon
- Michelle Hamilton
- Benjamin M. Jacobs
- Alex Jassen
- Amy Kaminsky
- Ruth Mazo Karras
- Judith Katz
- Ronald R. Krebs
- Bernard M. Levinson
- Michael Lower
- Alex Lubet
- Leslie Morris
- Rick McCormick
- Karen Painter
- Riv-Ellen Prell
- Calvin Roetzel
- Andrew Scheil
- Renana Schneller
- Philip Sellew
- Eric D. Weitz
Professor of Music Theory and Composition, Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Collaborative Arts
School of Music
100 Ferguson Hall
2106 4th St S
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-624-9049
E-mail: cherl001@umn.edu
On Sabbatical 2009-2010 Academic Year
Research Interests
- Music of the 18th through 21st centuries
- Relations of Music and Text
- Music in the context of the history of ideas
- The Second Viennese School: Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg
- Contemporary Musical Composition
Selected Publications
Schoenberg’s Musical Imagination. Cambridge University Press, July 2007.
The Great Tradition: Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe. Co‑ edited with Richard Rudolph and Halina Filopowicz. Berghahn Press, 2003.
“ ‘Somewhere Down in the United States’: The Art of Bob Dylan’s Ventriloquism.” Co-authored with Sumanth Gopinath, to appear as a chapter in Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan’s Road from Minnesota to the World, University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
“The String Quartet of 1897 and Verklärte Nacht: Schoenberg and the Tradition of Chamber Music for Strings,” to appear as a chapter in The Schoenberg Companion, Cambridge University Press, edited by Joseph Auner and Jennifer Shaw. Anticipated date of publication: 2008.
“Motive and Memory in Schoenberg’s First String Quartet,” in The Music of My Future: The Schoenberg Quartets and Trio, edited by Reinhold Brinkmann and Christoph Wolff, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000).
“Dialectical Opposition in Schoenberg’s Music and Thought.” Music Theory Spectrum, 22/2, fall 2000, pp.157-176.
“Memory and Rhetorical Trope in Schoenberg's String Trio.” Journal of the American Musicological Society, 51/3, fall 1998, pp. 559‑602.
“Schoenberg and das Unheimliche.” The Journal of Musicology. Vol. 11/3, summer 1993, pp.357‑373.
Selected Courses
- CSCL 5910: Kafka, Freud, Schoenberg
- MUS 8590: The Music and Thought of Arnold Schoenberg
- MUS 8590: The String Quartet in the 20th Century
- MUS 8580: The Chamber Music of Brahms
- MUS 5597: Music and Text