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Berthold Hoeckner

Appointment:

Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities in the College

Education:

Ph.D., Cornell, 1994

Contact:

Office: Goodspeed 203
Phone: (773) 702-7629
Email: bhoeckne@uchicago.edu

Berthold Hoeckner, Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities, is a music historian specializing in 19th- and 20th-century music. Research interests include aesthetics, Adorno, music and literature, music and visual culture, and the psychology and neuroscience of music. Awards and fellowships include the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society (1998), a Humboldt Research Fellowship (2001/2), and a Mellon New Directions Fellowship (2006/7). His book Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment was published by Princeton University Press in 2002. At Chicago since 1994.

Recent Courses Taught

  • Classical Hollywood Film Music (Winter 2008)
  • Perception and Understanding of Multimedia (Spring 2008, co-taught with Howard Nusbaum, Department of Psychology)
  • Film Music, Modernism and Modernity (Winter 2008, seminar)
  • Music and Memory (Winter 2006, seminar)
  • Adorno and 20th-Century Music (Spring 2004, seminar)

Selected Works

"Wagner and the Origin of Evil.” Opera Quarterly (forthcoming)

"Erinnerungslogik und Entwicklungslogik bei Schumann.” In Schumann und die große Form. Wolfram Steinbeck  (ed.) (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, forthcoming)

Apparitions: New Perspectives on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music. Editor.  (Routledge 2006)

"Audiovisual Memory: Transport and Transportation.” In Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema. Richard Leppert, Lawrence Kramer, and Daniel Goldmark (eds.) (University of California Press 2007)

"Paths through Dichterliebe.” Nineteenth-Century Music (2006)

"Homage to Adorno's ‘Homage to Zerlina’.”  Musical Quarterly (2004)

Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment (Princeton University Press 2002)

"Poet's Love and Composer's Love.” Music Theory Online (2001)

"Schumann and Romantic Distance.”  Journal of the American Musicological Society (1997)

"Elsa Screams or the Birth of Music Drama.” Cambridge Opera Journal (1997)