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Edward R. Phillips

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Professor

Johnson Hall Room 108

ephillip@uoguelph.ca

519-824-4120 x58452

Education

  • 1978Ph.D., music theory, Yale University
  • 1976M.Phil., music theory, Yale University
  • 1974M.A., music theory, Yale University
  • 1971B.A., summa cum laude, music, Amherst College
  • 1971-73Private study with Nadia Boulanger
  • Studied organ with Ernest May, Paul Jordan, and Nadia Boulanger; master classes with Andre' Marchal

Areas of Expertise

  • Music theory, especially Analysis
  • Music of late nineteenth and early twentieth century France, especially Gabriel Faur

Selected Publications

  • Gabriel Faur: A Guide to Research. Garland Composer Resource Manuals, vol. 49. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1999. 460pp.
  • "The Organic Nature of Faur's Sonata Form." Chapter 7 of Regarding Faur, edited by Tom Gordon, 145-61. Englewood, N.J.: Gordon & Breach, 1999.
  • "O Lamb of God," translation from the Danish of "O du Guds Lam!" (N. F. S. Grundtvig, 1837), the Agnus Dei of the Danish Mass, in Liturgy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark (Copenhagen: Church of Denmark Council on Inter-Church Relations, 1995), 12.
  • "Smoke, Mirrors and Prisms: Tonal Contradiction in Faur." Music Analysis 12, no. 1 (March 1993): 3-24.
  • "Two Faur Sources in the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, East Berlin." Canadian University Music Review 11, no. 1 (1991): 89-100.
  • "Pitch Structures in a Selected Repertoire of Early German Chorale Melodies." Music Theory Spectrum 3 (1981): 98-116.
  • "The Mary Stuart Songs of Robert Schumann: Key as an Aspect of Cycle." Canadian Association of Schools of Music Journal 9, no.2 (1979): 82-99.

Selected awards

  • Member, Phi Beta Kappa
  • Research grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1989-1990
  • Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.A.), 1983-1984