David Curran read music as an undergraduate at the University of Bristol before going on to Royal Holloway College, University of London where he studied for a master’s degree in Advanced Musical Studies and continues to study for a PhD. His research so far examines intersections between music analysis and the history of ideas, with a particular focus on the symphonies, operas, and aesthetic views of Hector Berlioz. He draws on a wide range of musical analytical techniques including Schenkerian analysis, Sonata Theory, and semiotic and narratological approaches to music. Observations in the musical realm often also give rise to excursions into philosophical, historical, and literary sources, including, primarily, the work of Rousseau, Schiller, and Hegel.
Contact : david.curran.2011@live.rhul.ac.uk
Séance - French Music (II): Berlioz and Debussy3.D.1 : Love and History in Berlioz’s “Chasse Royale et Orage”, a Semiotic-Schenkerian Perspective
