Robert Hatten

Ph.D. (Indiana University), Professor

rohatten @ indiana.edu

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
1201 East Third Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7006

Office: Simon 225E
Phone: (812) 855-1757
Fax:: (812) 855-4936

Ph.D., M.M., Indiana University, 1982, 1975; B.M., Baylor University, 1973. Former faculty member, State University of New York at Buffalo, the University of Michigan, and Pennsylvania State University. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, 1985-86. International reputation for stylistic, semiotic, hermeneutic, and gestural approaches to musical expressive meaning. Publications include Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correl-ation, and Interpretation (Indiana, 1994, paperback 2004; co-recipient of the 1997 Wallace Berry Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory); Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (Indiana, 2004); interpretive articles on Bruckner, Henze, and Penderecki, theoretical articles on analogues of intertextuality, narrativity, and linguistic tense, aspect, and voice in music. Current research interests include syntactic tropes; relationships between analysis, interpretation, and performance; music and the poetic text; narrativity and gesture in 20th-century music; and music and emotion.

General editor of the book series, "Musical Meaning and Interpretation," with Indiana University Press. Served as Vice-President and as member of the Executive Board, Program Committee, and Publication Awards Committee of the Society for Music Theory. Former President, Semiotic Society of America. Former President, Music Theory Midwest. Editorial board member of Music Theory Online (2 years), Arietta, and the Journal of Musical Meaning. Member of Scientific Committee for International Congress on Musical Signification (2004 and 2008). Librettist for Brian Boru and Bonhoeffer (Prof. Ann K. Gebuhr, composer) and Lorenzo de' Medici (Prof. P. Q. Phan, composer).