Allan Keiler

Professor Emeritus of Music

Departments/Programs

Music

Degrees

Harvard University, Ph.D.
University of Michigan, B.A.

Expertise

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

Profile

Both as scholar and teacher, on the undergraduate as well as graduate level, my interests center around theory and analysis and the history of theory, and 19th century musicology, especially Franz Liszt. I also have an interest in African-American studies that relate to the subject of my biography, Marian Anderson.

Courses Taught

MUS

195a

Seminar: Music and Meaning

Awards and Honors

Juliius Silberger Award for interdisciplinary work in psychoanalysis (2014)

interrview on NPR with Susan Stampberg on 75th anniversary of Lincoln Memorial concert (2014)

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)

Scholarship

Keiler, Allan R. ""Liszt on Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella: Translation and Commentary"." The World of Schubert. Ed. Christopher Gibbs and Morten Solvik. Princeton University Press, 2014 (forthcoming)

Keiler, Allan R, ed. "The Problem of the Retrieval of Musical Knowledge: the Thoroughbass Tradition and its Relationship to Rameau". Journal of Music Theory (Duke University Press), 57 2014.

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.