Vasili Byros (PhD, Yale University, 2009) is Associate Professor of Music Theory and Cognition and Chair of the Music Studies Department at Northwestern University. He researches the compositional and listening practices of the long 18th century, drawing on music theory, history, and cognitive and social psychology, in order to reconstruct “insider” perspectives on music of the period. His work combines viewpoints from schema theory, Formenlehre, topic theory, and historical pedagogies. He has published in Music Analysis, Music Theory Online, Eighteenth-Century Music, The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory (ed. Danuta Mirka), Musica Humana, Theory and Practice, and What is a Cadence? (ed. Markus Neuwirth and Pieter Bergé). Byros is currently working on a book that examines musical creativity in the long 18th century from his perspective as a period composer.
Contact : v-byros@northwestern.edu
Séance précomposée - Analyzing Models and Creativity in the Long Eighteenth Century 6.B.4 : (Re)Creating Bach’s Weimar Organ Fugues: Model-Learning, Externalization, and Conceptual Combination in Musical Creativity
