Faculty Guide

Title

Professor of Music

Music

Expertise

Nineteenth-century music. Theory and analysis. History of theory. Liszt. Music and Meaning

Awards and Honors

Dean of Arts and Sciences Mentoring Award (2010)

Participation in Day of Discovery television documentary on Marian Anderson, on the ION cable network. (2010)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year (2000 - 2001)

President, New England Conference of Music Theorists (1994 - 1995)

Visiting Fellow, Council Humanities, Princeton University (1981)

State Department Travelling Scholar's Grant (summer) (1966)

Fulbright Grant (declined) (1962 - 1963)

Courses Taught

MUS	1a	Introduction to Music
MUS	5a	Fundamentals of Music
MUS	45a	Beethoven
MUS	101a	Theory and Musicianship I: Part 1
MUS	135a	History of Music III: Romantic and 20th Century
MUS	171a	Form and Analysis
MUS	189a	Proseminar in Music of the Nineteenth Century
MUS	190b	Proseminar in Schenkerian Analysis
MUS	195a	Seminar: Music and Meaning
MUS	217b	Topics in Music of the Eighteenth Century
MUS	218b	Seminar in the Music of the Nineteenth Century
MUS	226a	History and Literature of Western Music Theory: Baroque to 1850
MUS	226b	History and Literature of Western Music Theory: 1850 to the Present
USEM	23a	Opera as Drama

Scholarship

Keiler, Allan R. "The Gentle Maestro." Rev. of Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere, by Eric Ryding, Rebecca Pechefsky. New York Review of Books vol. 12/200

Keiler, Allan R. "Ludwig Rellstab's Biographical Sketch of Liszt: Introduced and Translated." Franz Liszt and his World. Ed. Christoper H. Gibbs, Dana Gooley. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. 335-361.

Keiler,Allan R. Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey. Scribner, 2000.

Keiler, Allan R. A Reader in Historical and Comparative Linguistics. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972.

Keiler, Allan R. Translation of Roman Jakobson, Child Language, Aphasia, and Phonological Universals. The Hague: Mouton, 1970.

Keiler, Allan R. A Phonological Description of the Indo-European Laryngeals. The Hague: Mouton, 1968.