Biography

Name, Title, & Role(s)
Full Name:
Ian Bent
Position/Title:
Professor Emeritus
Contact Information
Office Address:
TBA

Ian Bent came to Columbia in 1986, having taught previously at the U. of London King's College, Harvard U., and the U. of Nottingham, where he was Professor and Chair of Music. He is general editor of the series Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis, and an area editor for The New Grove Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition. He retired in 2003. His current research interests lie in the field of the history of music theory, especially in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries; but he has interests also in contemporary music, in the Middle Ages, and in Hildegard of Bingen.
Degrees, Publications, and Recordings
Degrees:
BA (Cambridge U. 1961), MusB (1962)
MA 1965
PhD 1969
Selected Publications:

Selected Publications:

"'That Bright New Light': Schenker, Universal Edition, and the Origins of the Erläuterung Series, 1901–1910," Journal of the American Musicological Society 58 (2005), 69–138.

Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century: vol.1 Fugue, Form and Style; vol.2 Hermeneutic Approaches (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1994)

Analysis (New York: Norton, 1987); Italian trans. Analisi musicale (Turin: EDT, 1990)

trans. Heinrich Schenker: Das Meisterwerk in der Musik, as The Masterwork in Music, 3 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1994-97) [with a team of translators]

trans. Heinrich Schenker: Der Tonwille (New York: Oxford U. Press, 2004-05) [with a team of translators]

ed. Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1996)

"Momigny's 'Type de la Musique' and a Treatise in the Making," in Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past (Chicago: Chicago U. Press, 1993)

"History of Theory: Margin or Center?" Theoria 6 (1992)

articles in Music Analysis; Musical Times; Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association; Journal of the American Musicological Association; Music & Letters; Rivista italiana di musicologia; and elsewhere

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