Professor and Chair of Music Theory
pahall@umich.edu
734-764-8051
Office: 1318 A Moore
Patricia Hall (Ph.D., Yale University, 1989) taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for 25 years before coming to the University of Michigan as Professor and Chair of the Department of Music Theory. She is the author of A View of Berg’s Lulu Through the Autograph Sources (University of California Press, 1997, winner of the ASCAP Deems-Taylor Award), Berg’s Wozzeck (Oxford University Press, 2011), and co-editor with Friedemann Sallis of A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches (Cambridge University Press, 1996). She is the general editor of The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship, to be published in 2012.
Her articles and reviews have appeared in The Journal of Music Theory, The Musical Quarterly, Music Theory Spectrum, The International Journal of Musicology, Computing in Musicology, and a number of edited volumes. She received two Fulbright Felllowships for study in Vienna, and a grant from the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel.
She has recently given papers at the national meetings of the American Musicological Society, and the Society for Music Theory. She serves as chair of the Committee on the Status of Women for SMT.
She is currently writing a monograph on music in political films, and is the editor and founder of the online journal, Music and Politics.
School of Music, Theatre & Dance Faculty and Staff Directory:
Alphabetical Listing
Departmental Listing