Zeller, Matt
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Bio:
Musicologist, music theorist, organologist, and bow maker: Matthew Zeller was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the ACTOR Partnership at McGill University, Schulich School of Music. His primary research areas include timbre and timbral function in music, Klangfarbenmelodie and the Second Viennese School, music cognition, and musical instruments. Matt’s dissertation, “Planal Analysis and the Emancipation of Timbre: Klangfarbenmelodie and Timbral Function in Mahler, Schoenberg, and Webern,” focuses on timbre’s functional role in musical logic in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century music, formulates analytical language specific to timbre, and develops a new analytical method—planal analysis. In conjunction with auditory scene analysis and music cognition, planal analysis overcomes the stalemate between composer, listener, and analyst by placing musical elements in separate analytical planes, facilitating new ways to study and understand music. Matt is currently working toward the completion of a book on Klangfarbenmelodie in the free atonal (pantonal) music of Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg.
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matt.zeller[at]mcgill.ca
McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
