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Alan Gosman
Associate Professor of Music Theory
agosman@umich.edu
734-764-5573
Office: 1040 Moore
B.A. (Psychology), Wesleyan University, CT
B.M.A. and M. Mus. (Music Theory), University of Michigan
Ph.D. (Music Theory), Harvard University
Alan Gosman joined the School of Music, Theatre & Dance faculty in 2006. His research focuses on the Beethoven sketchbooks, contrapuntal techniques, canons, history of theory, tonal form, and links between performance and analysis. He holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and Wesleyan University. Currently he is writing a book on Beethoven's Landsberg 6 ("Eroica") Sketchbook with Lewis Lockwood. Mr. Gosman's articles have appeared in Music Theory Spectrum, the Journal of Music Theory, and Theory and Practice. In addition, he has contributed chapters to the books Keys to the Drama: Nine Perspectives on Sonata Forms, and Genetic Criticism and the Creative Process: Essays from Music, Literature, and Theater. He has presented at national meetings of the Society for Music Theory, the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies International Conference, the international conference Genetic Criticism in an Interdisciplinary Context, and numerous regional conferences. Other recent talks include a lecture at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland that was arranged by the U.S. State Department through the U.S. Consulate Office in Poland, and a presentation given as part of the Conversations on Europe Lecture Series, presented by the Center for European Studies and European Union Center at the University of Michigan. In 2010, he presented lectures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Harvard University's Performing Beethoven symposium. Prior to his position at the University of Michigan, Gosman taught at Michigan State University and Harvard University. He is a pianist and conductor.
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