Gurminder Bhogal
Catherine Mills Davis Professor of 音乐
Scholarly interests focus on the music of French composers including Maurice Ravel, 德彪西一样, 埃里克·萨蒂, 盖伯瑞尔福尔, Maurice Delage; the practice of ornament in French music and the visual arts during the early twentieth century; music and aesthetics; music and orientalism/exoticism/colonialism-decolonialism; and Sikh devotional music (Sikh Kirtan)
My research falls into two areas. The first deals with early twentieth-century French music and culture with a focus on relationships between music and the visual arts. These connections have been explored most recently in 德彪西一样’s Clair de Lune (纽约: Oxford University Press, 2018). Other publications that examine the practice and aesthetics of ornament in music composition and visual art of early twentieth-century Paris include Details of Consequence: Ornament, 音乐, and Art in Paris (AMS Studies in 音乐) (纽约: Oxford University Press, 2013); “Orchestral Tissue, Subordinate Arabesques, and Turning Inward in Maurice Ravel's Boléro,” 音乐理论在线 26/2, 2020; and “Ephemeral Arabesque Timbres and the Exotic Feminine,” in Arabesque Without End: Across 音乐 and the Arts, ed. Anne Leonard (纽约: Routledge, 2021). Other publications are forthcoming on Debussy’s piano music; Debussy’s music in video games; and grotesquerie and the oriental subject in 春之祭.
My second research area is on Sikh devotional music. I won the Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in 音乐 (2017) for my article, “Listening to Female Voices in Sikh Kirtan,” Sikh Formations Religion, Culture, Theory 13/1-2 (2017): 48-77. I am currently completing a monograph about Sikh Kirtan for a University press. A recent article about the halo in Sikh art and its connections to divine sound can be read here: "Anahad Naad and Pictorial Resonance: The Halo and Sonic Vibration in Sikh Art," Sikh Research Journal2023年春季. This recent article explores the history of the harmonium in Punjab with a focus on Sikh kirtan: "Tracking the Harmonium from Christian Missionary Hymns to Sikh Kirtan," Yale Journal of 音乐 and Religion 8/2 (2022).
From March 2019 to June 2022, I served as Review Editor for the Journal of the American 音乐ological Society. I am currently series editor for the American 音乐ological Society's Studies in 音乐 Series.
I teach a variety of courses in music history, 理论, 和分析, some of which have received funding from the Mellon Foundation. Core courses for the music major and minor that I teach include The Symphony in the World (201亩); Looking Backwards, Reaching Forwards: Modernism and 音乐 (202亩); Expressing Race and Gender through New 音乐 (202亩); Opera: Its History, 音乐, and Drama (230亩). My electives focus on a range of topics: The Femme and Her Song; Being Modern in Paris; Virtuosity, Suspicion, Transcendence; Finding France in French Piano 音乐; Nothingness in 音乐, Poetry, and Art; 音乐 and Sound in Video Games; Paris Chic: French 音乐 and the Arts; Sacred Sounds of South Asia.
教育
- B.亩(Hons), Royal College of 音乐
- M.亩., King's College, University of London
- Ph.D., University of Chicago
Current and upcoming courses
This course offers a comprehensive chronological survey of the history and evolution of opera, from 1600 to the present. Lectures will examine historical background, the subgenres of operatic literature (opera seria, 喜歌剧, 音乐戏剧), and complete operas by major composers representing a number of periods and styles (including Monteverdi, 莫扎特, 威尔第, 和Berg). We will also study librettos, 相关的小说, and other source materials in order to establish connections between musical structure and dramatic expression. Two class meetings, with additional sessions required for viewing operas in their entirety.
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Topic for Fall 2024: The Symphony in the World. The Austrian composer, 古斯塔夫•马勒, argued that “a Symphony must be like the world; it must embrace everything.” This course takes Mahler’s statement as a springboard for examining the rich and varied sounds of the Symphony in the Western European classical tradition. Students will build on their skills in music analysis and criticism through close listening to famous symphonies by Haydn, 莫扎特, 贝多芬, 舒伯特, 布拉姆斯, 李斯特, 柴可夫斯基, 和马勒. We will learn about the cultural, 文体, and aesthetic nuances of these works from a variety of intellectual standpoints (including feminist 理论, 酷儿理论, 和声音研究). A highlight of this course will be a field trip to a performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. All students are welcome.