Michiel Schuijer is currently head of research and study leader of the Department of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He studied music theory at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and musicology at Utrecht University. In 1999 he co-founded the Dutch (now Dutch/Flemish) Society for Music Theory, and from 2007 to 2011 he was editor-in-chief of the Dutch Journal of Music Theory. Schuijer focuses his own research at the juncture of music theory and historical musicology. His book Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts was published in 2008 by University of Rochester Press. He is currently studying the sociological foundations of the practice/theory divide as manifested in the curricula of European conservatories.
Contact : michiel.schuijer@ahk.nl
Séance - Teaching and Pedagogy (II) 12.B.6 : “You Could Compose a Missa 'Surfin’ USA'” Counterpoint Teaching and the History of its Justification
