| BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Steven Whiting (University of Michigan) teaches courses in 18th-century
music and the history of musical theatre. He received a M.Mus. and Ph.D.
from The University of Illinois, where he also taught before joining
the Michigan faculty in 1991. Following his undergraduate education
at Macalester College, he studied at Christian-Albrechts Universität
in Kiel, Germany.
Mr. Whiting has published a dozen articles about Beethoven,
Satie, French cabaret music, and E.T.A. Hoffmann, and has co-edited
A.L. Ringer's Musik als Geschichte. His book Satie
the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall, for
which he received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant,
was published by Oxford University Press in 1999.
Mr. Whiting was recently appointed Director of the University's
Center for European Studies in its International Center.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Musicology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
May 1991.
Dissertation: "To the 'New Manner' Born: A Study of Beethoven's
Early Variations." Advisor: Professor Alexander Ringer.
M.M. in Musicology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
1984. Thesis: "Erik Satie and Parisian Musical Entertainment,
18881909." Advisor: Professor Lawrence Gushee.
Fulbright Study Grant, Christian-Albrechts-Universität,
Kiel, Germany, 197577.
B.A. in Music, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1975.
Concentrations: voice, piano,
German. Magna cum laude graduation, Phi Beta Kappa.
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Associate Director, International Institute, The University
of Michigan, 2000.
Associate Professor of Musicology, The University of Michigan,
1999.
Director, Center for European Studies, International Institute,
The University of Michigan, 1998.
Assistant Professor of Music History/Musicology, The University
of Michigan, 199299.
Hunting Family Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Humanities,
199798.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology, Indiana University,
summer 1992.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History/Musicology,
The University of Michigan, 199192.
Visiting Lecturer in Musicology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
1985, 198991.
Editor, A-R Editions, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, 198589.
TEACHING
Courses Taught at the University of Illinois
Music 130, Introduction to Music (for non-music majors); Music
131, Masterworks of Music (for non-music majors); Music 132,
Twentieth-Century Music (for non-music majors); Music 213, History
of Western Music I (survey for music majors); Music 214, History
of Western Music II (survey for music majors); Music 314, Nineteenth-Century
Music (for upper-level and graduate music students); Music 315,
Twentieth-Century Music (for upper-level and graduate music students)
Courses Taught at Indiana University
Music 410, The Music of Beethoven (for undergraduate music
students); Music 539, Introduction to Music Bibliography (for
graduate music students)
Courses Taught at the University of Michigan
MHM 341, Introduction to the Art of Music (for non-music majors);
MHM 345, History of Music I (for non-music majors); MHM 405/505,
Music of Beethoven; MHM 406/506, The Music of Cole Porter (last
semester, The Songs of Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hart); MHM
407/507, HUM 411, Music and Narrativity (interdisciplinary course
developed during Institute for the Humanities fellowship); MHM
421/521, Music of the Classic Era; MHM 509, Teaching Introductory
Music; MHM 605, Mysticism, Mystification, Modernism: The Career
of Erik Satie (graduate seminar); Musicology 645, Topic and Narrative
in the Classical Keyboard Sonata (graduate seminar).
MUTT 441, History of Musical Theatre I.
Dissertations Chaired
Denise Pilmer Taylor, "La Musique pour tout le monde:
Jean Wiéner and the Dawn of French Jazz," Ph.D. Music:
Musicology, 1998.
Mark W. Knoll, "Which Bach Wrote What?: A Cumulative
Approach to Clarification of Three Disputed Works," Ph.D.
Music: Musicology, 1998.
Christine Cochrane Moraal, "The Life and Afterlife of
Johannes Kreisler: Affinities between
E. T. A. Hoffmann and Carl Maria von Weber, Hector Berlioz, and
Robert Schumann," Ph.D. Music: Musicology, 1994.
PUBLICATIONS
(including those in press; * = juried publication)
"From Opera to Instrumental Work." Forthcoming in
Rainer Cadenbach and Sieghard
Brandenburg, eds., Biographie und Schaffensprozess bei Beethoven
(Laaber: Laaber-Verlag and Beethovenhaus-Bonn).
"Satie's 'Vexations': Some Queries and Connections."
Forthcoming in a dossier of articles to be published by the Archives
de la Fondation Erik Satie, Paris.
"From Signor Contino to Falstaff: Operatic Connotations
in Beethoven's Early Variations,"
American Journal of Semiotics 13 (1996 [1998]): 14763.
* Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1999), 578 pp. Erik Satie, Neuf chansons de
cabaret et de caf'conç, pour chant et piano. Edition établie
et préfacée par Steven Moore Whiting (Paris: Editions
Salabert, 1996, pl. nos. E.A.S. 1934049 [for individual
sheet music], 19350 [for anthology]), 47 pp.
* "Symmetry and Process in Two Variation Works by Beethoven."
In Katachi U Symmetry, edited by T. Ogawa et al., 3015.
Tokyo: Springer-Verlag, 1996.
"Music on Montmartre." In The Spirit of Montmartre:
Cabarets, Humor, and the Avant-Garde, 18751905, edited by
Phillip Dennis Cate and Mary Shaw, 15997. New Brunswick,
NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996.
* "Erik Satie and Vincent Hyspa: Notes on a Collaboration."
Music & Letters 77 (1996): 6491.
* "Three Märchen-Medieval, Musical, and Modern:
Fouqué's Undine, Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, and Hoffmann's
Der goldne Topf." Symmetry: Culture and Science 7 (1996):
36176.
* "Musical Parody and Two 'uvres posthumes' of Erik Satie:
The 'Rêverie du pauvre' and the 'Petite musique de clown
triste.'" Revue de Musicologie 81 (1995): 21534.
Carl Dahlhaus, Albrecht Riethmüller, and Alexander L.
Ringer, eds., Beethoven: Interpretationen seiner Werke, 2 vols.
Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1994, 1:600603, 2:4048, 44364.
(Articles on seven of Beethoven's variation works.)
Alexander L. Ringer, Musik als Geschichte: Gesammelte Aufsätze.
Herausgegeben von Albrecht Riethmüller und Steven Moore
Whiting. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1993. I wrote the introduction
(3 pp.), translated one of the articles from English into German
(13 pp.), and edited the rest of the translations (239 pp.).
Review of Bernd Sponheuer, Musik als Kunst und Nicht-Kunst
(Kassel, 1987). In Notes 49 (1992): 14952.
"Computers and Scholarly Publication." In Modern
Music Librarianship: In Honor of Ruth Watanabe, edited by Alfred
Mann, 13336. New York: Pendragon, 1989.
* "'Hört ihr wohl': Zu Funktion und Programm von
Beethovens Chorfantasie." Archiv für Musik-wissenschaft
45 (1988): 13247.
Review of William Kinderman, Beethoven's Diabelli Variations
(Oxford University Press, 1987).In Notes 45 (1988): 5761.
Review of Robin Wallace, Beethoven's Critics (Cambridge University
Press, 1986). In Notes 44 (1988): 7079.
"Pianos" [piano and santur in Persian classical
music]. In Bruno Nettl, The Western Impact on World Music, 5154.
New York: Schirmer, 1985.
GRANTS
Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities,
1989, funded three-week research trip to Paris.
Faculty Fellowships, University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham
School of Graduate Studies, summer 1993 and summer 1994, funded
research in Paris.
Travel grants, University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School
of Graduate Studies (Dean's Discretionary Fund) and International
Institute, November 1994, supported travel to read scholarly
paper in Japan.
Hunting Family Faculty Fellow, University of Michigan, Institute
for the Humanities, 199798.
INVITED PAPERS, SESSION CHAIRMANSHIPS
"Freude auf der Mauer: On the Political Use and Misuse of
Beethoven's Ninth." Paper for the German Department graduate
colloquium, 22 November 1999.
"Musical Olympics 1936." Lecture in connection with
a screening of Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia for the symposium "Body/Bildung:
An Interdisciplinary Look at the Disciplines," 8 October
1999.
"From Opera to Instrumental Work." Paper delivered
at the international symposium "Biographie und Schaffensprozess
bei Beethoven," Berlin, Hochschule der Künste, 2 July
1999.
"Satie bohémien: An Avant-Garde Musician on Montmartre."
Lecture-recital for the colloquium Avant-Garde Communities, 18801980,
Rutgers University, 13 April 1996.
"From Signor Contino to Falstaff: Operatic Connotation in
Beethoven's Early Variations." Lecture delivered at the
annual meeting of the Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society,
School of Music, University of Michigan, 19 May 1995.
"Symmetry and Process in Two Variation Works by Beethoven."
Paper delivered at the International Katachi U Symmetry Symposium,
23 November 1994, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Chair of session "Modern and Postmodern Representations,"
annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, Minneapolis,
30 October 1994.
Session chair, Midwest Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological
Society, Ohio State University, 3 April 1993.
Session chair, Midwest Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological
Society, Chicago, 7 October 1992.
"The Righini Variations: Beethoven Learning from Mozart."
Colloquium for the Department of Music History/Musicology, University
of Michigan, 6 February 1992.
"Erik Satie and Vincent Hyspa: Notes on a Collaboration,"
annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, Baltimore,
6 November 1988. An expanded version was read at the Symposium
of the Institute for Gounod Studies, Pittsburgh, 12 March 1993.
"Critical Editions and Oral Traditions," annual meeting
of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Ann Arbor, 5 November 1987.
"'Hört ihr wohl': Beethoven's Choral Fantasy as Summons
and Sermon," annual meeting of the American Musicological
Society, Cleveland, 7 November 1986.
"Technology and the Printing of Scholarly Music Editions,"
Maryland Handel Festival, College Park, 30 October 1986.
SERVICE- Public Lectures
"Concerted Efforts: Bach's Brandenburgs." Pre-concert
lecture for the University Musical Society, 11 March 2000.
"The Miniature and the Monster" [Opp. 95, 130]. Pre-concert
lecture for the series Beethoven the Contemporary, University
Musical Society, 28 March 1999.
"From Romeo to Leonore: The Operatic Quartet" [Opp.
18/1, 59/2]. Pre-concert lecture for the series Beethoven the
Contemporary, University Musical Society, 7 February 1999.
"Erik Satie: From Cabaret to Concert Hall." Lecture-recital
for Art Fair Song Fest, 17 July 1998.
"Setting the Word: The Songs of Cole Porter." Lecture-recital
for Humanities Camp (Institute for the Humanities), 15 May 1998.
"Mozart's Homage to Haydn." Pre-concert lecture for
Chamber Music Ann Arbor, 13 May 1998.
"Motivic Comedies, Moonlit Fantasies, and 'Passionate Intensity'
[Beethoven's Sonatas Opp. 2/2, 10/2, 27/2, and 57]." Pre-concert
lecture for the series Beethoven the Contemporary, University
Musical Society, 27 March 1998.
"When Two Movements Are Enough: Lyricism, Subversion, Synthesis"
[Opp. 78, 90, 101. 31/2]. Pre-concert lecture for the series
Beethoven the Contemporary, University Musical Society, 31 January
1998.
"Compliments and Caricatures, or Beethoven Pays His Respects"
[Opp. 18/2 and 135]. Pre concert lecture for the series Beethoven
the Contemporary, University Musical Society, 30 January 1998.
"Telling Stories at the Keyboard: A Narrative Construction
of Beethoven's Op. 13." Learning in Retirement Distinguished
Lecturer Series, 9 December 1997.
"A Dance of Melancholy and 'Feeling New Strength': Beethoven's
Opp. 18/6 and 132." Pre concert lecture for the series Beethoven
the Contemporary, University Musical Society, 16 November 1997.
"Turns and Thirds: The Ties that Bind." Pre-concert
lecture on Opp. 22 and 106 for the series Beethoven the Contemporary,
University Musical Society, 14 November 1997.
"Beethoven Fundamentals." General introduction for
the series Beethoven the Contemporary, University Musical Society,
9 November 1997.
"An Hour and a Quarter with Cole Porter." Lecture-recital
for Art Fair Song Fest, 17 July 1997.
"Brahms's 'Love Songs' and Shostakovich's 'Jewish Songs':
The Folksong Connection." Pre concert lecture for Chamber
Music Ann Arbor, 1314 May 1997.
"From Beaumarchais to Da Ponte to Mozart." Lecture
for Continuing Education Program, Alumni Association, 27 March
1997.
"Mahler's Eighth Symphony." Pre-concert lecture for
Grand Rapids Symphony, 2122 March 1997.
"A Prodigy Comes of Age: Mozart's A-major Symphony (KV 201)
and 'Jeunehomme' Concerto (KV 270)." Pre-concert lecture
for the University Musical Society, 14 February 1997.
"The Music of Porgy and Bess." Seminar for the Michigan
Journalism Fellows, 6 February 1997.
"When Haste Doesn't Make Waste: Mozart's 'Haffner' and 'Linz'
Symphonies." Pre-concert lecture for the Ann Arbor Symphony
Orchestra, 25 January 1997.
"Schubertiade I. Chamber Music" and "Schubertiade
II. The Last Piano Sonatas." Pre-concert lectures for the
University Musical Society, 8 and 23 January 1997.
"Donizetti's Elisir d'amore." Lecture for University
of Michigan Alumni Associatio#Ä6n996.
"BeethoÓõês Choral Fantasy: A Contextual
Apologia." Colloquium for MELOS (organization of graduate
students in musicology), 5 November 1996.
"Schubert's Songs of Spring." Pre-concert lecture for
"An Early Tribute to Late Schubert," Chamber Music
Ann Arbor, 15 May 1996.
"Purcell's Dido and Æneas." Pre-concert lecture
for the University Musical Society, University of Michigan, 19
April 1996.
"Strauss's Retelling of Don Quixote." Pre-concert lecture
for the University Musical Society, University of Michigan, 18
April 1996.
"Cabaret, Musical Parody & Erik Satie." Colloquium
for MELOS (organization of graduate students in musicology),
17 April 1996.
"The Classical Pattern of Musical Thought." Learning
in Retirement Distinguished Lecturer Series, 9 April 1996.
"Chamber Works by Beethoven and Bartók." Pre-concert
lecture for the University Musical Society, University of Michigan,
26 February 1996.
"Bruch's Violin Concerto and Mahler's First Symphony."
Pre-concert lecture for the University Musical Society, University
of Michigan, 26 January 1997.
"Elgar as Symphonist." Pre-concert lecture for the
University Musical Society, University of Michigan, 18 January
1996.
"Bach's Brandenburg Concertos." Two lectures delivered
at chamber concerts in the Museum of Art, University of Michigan,
18/19 March and 1/2 April 1995.
"Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel in Historical Context."
Lecture given for the Alumni Continuing Education Program, University
of Michigan, 10 November 1994.
"From Alpha to Omega: The Consistency of Beethoven's Technique."
Philips pre-concert lecture for the University Musical Society,
University of Michigan, 25 March 1994.
"Mozart's Symbols: The Magic Flute." Lecture for the
Learning in Retirement program, University of Michigan, 24 February
1994.
"Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites: Final Maturity of an
Enfant terrible." Lecture for the Alumni Continuing Education
Program, University of Michigan, 13 November 1993.
"Listening with Eighteenth-Century Ears, or The Impossibility
of Authenticity." Philips pre-concert lecture for the University
Musical Society, University of Michigan, 10 April 1993.
"Pergolesi's Servant and Argento's Boor." Lecture for
the Alumni Continuing Education Program, University of Michigan,
27 March 1993.
"Milieu and Metaphor in Strauss's Die Fledermaus."
Lecture for the Alumni Continuing Education Program, University
of Michigan, 21 November 1992.
"Rossini's Barber of Seville." Lecture for the Alumni
Continuing Education Program, University of Michigan, 28 March
1992.
Committee Work and Other Service for the School of Music
Secretary, Department of MHM, 199195.
Member, Prelim Committee, Department of MHM, 199195; Chair,
199597.
Graduate Committee, 199596, 19982000; Chair (and Director
of Graduate Studies), 199899.
Reader, French Proficiency Examination, 1991present.
Examiner, German Proficiency Examination, 1995present.
Member of doctoral committee for Tara Browner, Paul Munson, and
Amanda Eubanks (historical musicology); Kyra Gaunt, H. K. Chae,
and Tracey Laird (ethnomusicology); and Patricia Holland, Robert
Utterback, Timothy Cheek, Deborah Ash, Gabriela Cohen, Peter
Santogade, Soon Young Oh, Armando Bayolo, and Thomas Schnauber
(DMA).
Search Committee, Musical Theatre, spring 1994.
Advisor, LSA Concentration in Music, spring 1993.
Secretary, Pi Kappa Lambda (Chi chapter), 1994present.
BFA Review Committee (charged with drafting final report), 199596.
School of Music representative, Faculty Senate Assembly, 199596.
Advisor, BM and BMA Music History majors, 199697.
Search Committee, joint appointment in musicology and European
literature/cultural studies, 199798.
Service to the University Community
Musical advisor for the Residential College Players' production
of Slawomir Mrozek, The Slaughterhouse, 1993.
Judge, Sing and Variety competition, Greek Week, 1994, 1995.
Member, Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Arts Partners Steering Committee,
University Musical Society, 199697.
Member, Planning Committee, Year of the Humanities and Arts (YoHA),
OVPR, 199697.
Member, Campus Committee, IIE Fulbright Awards, 1996present.
Guest speaker on music appreciation at Michigan, UROP, February
1997; Chi Epsilon (honorary engineering society), March 1997.
Member, Advisory Committee, Center for European Studies, International
Institute, 199697.
Director, Center for European Studies, International Institute,
1998. In this capacity I have supervised the organization
and execution of six international conferences, delivering introductory
remarks at four of them.
Service to Professional Organization
Member, Program Committee, American Musicological Society, Midwest
Chapter, 199293.
Secretary, American Musicological Society, Midwest Chapter, 1999.
External Reviewer, Canada Council, January 2000., pour chant
et piano. Edition établie et préfacée par
Steven Moore Whiting (Paris: Editions Salabert, 1996, pl. nos.
E.A.S. 1934049 [for individual sheet music], 19350 [for
anthology]), 47 pp.
* "Symmetry and Process in Two Variation Works by Beethoven."
In Katachi U Symmetry, edited by T. Ogawa et al.,
3015. Tokyo: Springer-Verlag, 1996.
"Music on Montmartre." In The Spirit of Montmartre:
Cabarets, Humor, and the Avant-Garde, 18751905,
edited by Phillip Dennis Cate and Mary Shaw, 15997. New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996.
* "Erik Satie and Vincent Hyspa: Notes on a Collaboration."
Music & Letters 77 (1996): 6491.
* "Three Märchen-Medieval, Musical,
and Modern: Fouqué's Undine, Mozart's Die
Zauberflöte, and Hoffmann's Der goldne Topf."
Symmetry: Culture and Science 7 (1996): 36176.
* "Musical Parody and Two 'uvres posthumes' of Erik Satie:
The 'Rêverie du pauvre' and the 'Petite musique de clown
triste.'" Revue de Musicologie 81 (1995):
21534.
Carl Dahlhaus, Albrecht Riethmüller, and Alexander L.
Ringer, eds., Beethoven: Interpretationen seiner Werke,
2 vols. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1994, 1:600603, 2:4048,
44364. (Articles on seven of Beethoven's variation works.)
Alexander L. Ringer, Musik als Geschichte: Gesammelte
Aufsätze. Herausgegeben von Albrecht Riethmüller
und Steven Moore Whiting. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1993. I wrote
the introduction (3 pp.), translated one of the articles from
English into German (13 pp.), and edited the rest of the translations
(239 pp.).
Review of Bernd Sponheuer, Musik als Kunst und Nicht-Kunst
(Kassel, 1987). In Notes 49 (1992): 14952.
"Computers and Scholarly Publication." In Modern
Music Librarianship: In Honor of Ruth Watanabe, edited
by Alfred Mann, 13336. New York: Pendragon, 1989.
* "'Hört ihr wohl': Zu Funktion und Programm von
Beethovens Chorfantasie." Archiv für Musik-wissenschaft
45 (1988): 13247.
Review of William Kinderman, Beethoven's Diabelli Variations
(Oxford University Press, 1987).In Notes 45 (1988):
5761.
Review of Robin Wallace, Beethoven's Critics
(Cambridge University Press, 1986). In Notes 44(1988):
7079.
"Pianos" [piano and santur in Persian classical
music]. In Bruno Nettl, The Western Impact on World Music,
5154. New York: Schirmer, 1985.
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