Roger Mathew Grant is a music theorist specializing in the eighteenth century. He also works as a dramaturge, for example with Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce on a film version of Arnold Schoenberg's " Pierrot Lunaire." Grant teaches at

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Work

According to a recent interview, Grant believes that "during the eighteenth century, debates within musical aesthetics re-scripted the role that performing musicians play in the creation and communication of affect."

Publications

Books

*Grant, Roger Mathew (2014).
Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era
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*Grant, Roger Mathew (2020)''
Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical
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Articles

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Music Theory Online ''Music Theory Online'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access academic journal covering music theory and musical analysis, analysis. It was established in 1993 and is published by the Society for Music Theory. The initial issues were designat ...

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Ad infinitum: Numbers and Series in Early Modern Music Theory
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Peculiar Attunements: Comic Opera and Enlightenment Mimesis
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Awards

Emerging Scholar Award
(Book), Society for Music Theory (2016), for Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era
Stanford Humanities Center
External Faculty Fellowship (2016–2017)

Projects

In 2015 and 2016, Grant collaborated on a "radical reinterpretation" of

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'' in an installation at

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, Susanne Sachsse, Vaginal Davis, and Jamie Stewart. Grant served as musical producer for ''Pierrot Lunaire'' (2014), a film by Bruce LaBruce and winner of the Teddy Jury Award, Berlinale International Film Festival.

References

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