Background
Boykan, Martin was born on April 12, 1931 in New York City.
(Time is of the essence in music because the ear can only ...)
Time is of the essence in music because the ear can only perceive sequentially-one thing at a time-unlike the eye, which is capable of panoramic view. Silence and Slow Time proposes a way of thinking about music that is faithful to the experience of playing or listening during a real performance. Boykan argues against the common assumption that thematic relationships automatically insure musical coherence, because the repetition or the transformation of a theme is only meaningful if we consider when it occurs. This argument is developed through a close reading of passages from the full range of Western music. Analyses of dramatic narratives in Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin reveal a richness that can only be captured if thematic or voice-leading relationships are placed within a temporal context. Other kinds of narrative are explored in a Renaissance motet, and in the music of Wolf and Debussy at the end of the 19th Century. The book devotes several chapters to the great innovators of the 20th Century, and concludes with a detailed study of the Schoenberg Trio that traces its thematic and harmonic process to suggest a somewhat oblique relation to the apocalyptic moment when it was composed.
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Boykan, Martin was born on April 12, 1931 in New York City.
AB summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1951. Student, University Zurich, Switzerland, 1951—1952. Master of Music, Yale, 1953.
Assistant professor music Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1964-1967, associate professor music, 1967-1976, professor, since 1976, Irving G. Fine professor, 1986—2009, Irving G. Fine emeritus professor, since 2009. Composer-in-residence Composer's Conference, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1987. Visiting professor composition Columbia University, 1988-1989, New York University, 1993, 2000.
Senior Fulbright lecturer Bar Ilan University, Israel, 1994.
(Time is of the essence in music because the ear can only ...)
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Member American Music Center, Phi Betta Kappa.
Married Susan Schwalb, 1983.