José Oliveira Martins (Ph.D. University of Chicago, Music History and Theory) is currently FCT-Principal Researcher at CITAR, Universidade Católica Portuguesa; previous faculty at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. His research explores the conceptualization of musical systems and the analytical modeling of multi-layered pitch organizations in music of Bartók, Stravinsky, Milhaud, Falla, Lutoslawski, Kurtág, and others. A co-organizer of the 2016 Porto International Conference on Musical Gesture as Creative Interface (PT), his publications appear in the Journal of Music Theory, Perspectives of New Music, Theory and Practice, Portuguese Journal of Musicology and others; currently writing two books: on multi-layered harmony in twentieth-century music, and on the music of Carlos Paredes, a Portuguese-guitar virtuoso.
Contact : jomartins@porto.ucp.pt
Séance - Leaving – and Regaining – the Shores of Tonality 5.F.5 : Reframing Music Theorizing and Analytical Acts on Twentieth-Century Multi-Layered Harmony
