Roger Mathew Grant Explained

Roger Mathew Grant is a music theorist specializing in the eighteenth century. He also works as a dramaturge, for example with Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce on a film version of Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire." Grant teaches at Wesleyan University.^[1]

Work

According to a recent interview, Grant believes that "during the eighteenth century, debates within musical aesthetics re-scripted the role that performing musicians play in the creation and communication of affect."^[2]

Publications

Books

• Grant, Roger Mathew (2014). Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era New York: Oxford University Press. OCLC 1028553445.
• Grant, Roger Mathew (2020). Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical. New York: Fordham University Press. OCLC 1144094031.

Articles

• Grant, Roger Mathew (2008). “Hysteria at the Musical Surface." Music Theory Online 14 (1): n.p.
• Grant, Roger Mathew (2013). “Ad infinitum: Numbers and Series in Early Modern Music Theory.” Music Theory Spectrum 35 (1): 62–76.
• Grant, Roger Mathew (2017). “Peculiar Attunements: Comic Opera and Enlightenment Mimesis.” Critical Inquiry 43 (2): 550–569.

Awards

• Emerging Scholar Award (Book), Society for Music Theory (2016), for Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era
• Stanford Humanities Center, External Faculty Fellowship (2016–2017)

Projects

In 2015 and 2016, Grant collaborated on a "radical reinterpretation" of Mozart's The Magic Flute in an installation at NYU's 80 Washington Square East Gallery with Jonathan Berger, Susanne Sachsse, Vaginal Davis, and Jamie Stewart.^[3]

Grant served as musical producer for Pierrot Lunaire (2014), a film by Bruce LaBruce and winner of the Teddy Jury Award, Berlinale International Film Festival.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Roger Mathew Grant - Faculty, Wesleyan University. www.wesleyan.edu. en. 2017-05-19.
2. News: Wakefield. Tanu. 2017-01-30. Stanford Humanities Center fellow Q&A: Roger Grant on affect theory. Stanford Humanities Center. 2021-02-19.
3. Web site: The Magic Flute - 80 Washington Square East Galleries - NYU Steinhardt. steinhardt.nyu.edu. en. 2017-05-19.