Dr. David Metzer, B.A. (Dickinson), M.Phil, Ph.D. (Yale)
Professor, Musicology, Jazz Studies
Office: 604.822.2246, Room 403
Email: david.metzer(at)ubc.ca
Bio: Dr. David Metzer
Professional Experience
University of British Columbia, Professor
Georgetown University (1994-95), Lecturer
Academic Background
Yale University, Ph.D. in Music History, 1993
Yale University, M.Phil in Music History, 1990
Dickinson College, BA in Music and Economics, summa cum laude, Departmental
Honors in Music, 1987
Publications
Books
Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Quotation and Cultural Meaning in Twentieth-Century Music (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Articles
“Modern Silence,” Journal of Musicology 23 (2006): 331-74.
“The Paths from and to Abstraction in Stockhausen’s Gesang der Jünglinge,” Modernism/modernity 11 (2004): 695-721.
"Musical Decay: Luciano Berio's Rendering and John Cage's Europera 5," Journal of the Royal Music Association 125 (2000): 93-124.
"Shadow Play: The Spiritual in 'Black and Tan Fantasy'," Black Music Research Journal 17 (1997): 137-58.
"'Spurned Love': Eroticism and Abstraction in the Early Works of Aaron Copland," Journal of Musicology 15 (1997): 417-43.
"'We Boys': Childhood in the Works of Charles Ives," 19th- Century Music 21 (1997): 77-95.
"The League of Composers: The Initial Years," American Music 15 (1997): 45-69.
"Reclaiming Walt: Marc Blitzstein's Whitman Settings," Journal of the AmericanMusicological Society 48 (1995): 240-71.
"'A wall of darkness dividing the world': Whiteness and Blackness in Louis Gruenberg's The Emperor Jones," Cambridge Opera Journal 7 (1995): 55-72.
"The New York Reception of Pierrot lunaire: The 1923 Premiere and Its Aftermath," Musical Quarterly 78 (1994): 669-99.
Selected Areas of Interest for Teaching and Research
Twentieth-Century Music
Opera
Jazz History
Cultural Studies
Popular Music
Modernism and Postmodernism
Gender and Sexuality Studies
