Background
Treitler, Leo was born on January 26, 1931 in Dortmund, Federal Republic Germany. Son of Ben and Regina (Knoll) Treitler. came to the United States, 1938.
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Leo Theitler is a central figure in American musicology, both for his writings on medieval and Renaissance music and for his influential work on historical analysis. In this elegant book he develops a powerful statement of what music analysis and criticism in relation to historical understanding can be. His aim is an understanding of the music of the past not only in its own historical context but also as we apprehend it now, and as we assimilate it to our current interests and concerns. He elucidates his views through unique new interpretations of major works from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.
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(Leo Theitler is a central figure in American musicology, ...)
Leo Theitler is a central figure in American musicology, both for his writings on medieval and Renaissance music and for his influential work on historical analysis. In this elegant book he develops a powerful statement of what music analysis and criticism in relation to historical understanding can be. His aim is an understanding of the music of the past not only in its own historical context but also as we apprehend it now, and as we assimilate it to our current interests and concerns. He elucidates his views through unique new interpretations of major works from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.
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Treitler, Leo was born on January 26, 1931 in Dortmund, Federal Republic Germany. Son of Ben and Regina (Knoll) Treitler. came to the United States, 1938.
Bachelor, University of Chicago, 1950; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1957; Master of Fine Arts, Princeton University, 1960; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1966.
From 1961 to 1965 he taught at the University of Chicago, and following this at Brandeis University and State University of New York Stony Brook. Treitler"s major work is in Medieval and Renaissance music, particularly in Gregorian chant and the earliest polyphony. He also published a series of essays exploring historiography in music history, which were collected, with other works on music history and theory, in He revised Oliver Strunk"s Source Readings in Music History in 1998.
On the rise of Western plainchant and notation Homer and Gregory: The Transmission of Epic Poetry and Plainchant.
The Musical Quarterly Volume 60, Number. 3 (July, 1974), pp.
333-372 "Centonate" Chant: "Übles Flickwerk" or "East pluribus unus?". Journal of the American Musicological Society Volume
28, Number. 1 (Spring, 1975), pp.
1-23 The Early History of Music Writing in the West. Journal of the American Musicological Society Volume 35, Number. 2 (Summer, 1982), pp.
237-279 Reading and Singing: On the Genesis of Occidental Music-Writing.
Early Music History Volume 4 (1984), pp. 135-208 The "Unwritten" and "Written Transmission" of Medieval Chant and the Start-Up of Musical Notation.
The Journal of Musicology Volume 10, Number. 2 (Spring, 1992), pp.
131-191 On historiography and musical analysis The Present as History.
Perspectives of New Music Volume 7, Number. 2 (Spring, 1969), pp. 1-58 History, Criticism, and Beethoven"s Ninth Symphony.
19th-Century Music Volume
3, Number. 3 (March, 1980), pp. 193-210 "To Worship That Celestial Sound": Motives for Analysis.
The Journal of Musicology Volume 1, Number. 2 (April, 1982), pp.
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Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Musicol. Society, International Musicol.
Married Ruth Elizabeth Wijkman, September 12, 1956 (divorced November 1984). Children: Christopher, Inga, Alexander, Max.