Univ.-Prof.
Sigrun Heinzelmann
PhD
A specialist in music theory with a particular focus on the works of Maurice Ravel and Schenkerian analysis, Sigrun Heinzelmann combines scholarly research with a strong interest in the relationship between analysis and performance practice. Her work encompasses publications, critical editions and international conference presentations, and reflects a wide-ranging engagement with both historical and theoretical aspects of music.
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Music Theory, City University of New York, Graduate Center (2008)
PhD Thesis: Sonata Form in Ravel’s Pre-War Chamber Music
Supervisor: William Rothstein
Master of Music in Music Theory and Chamber Music Performance, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1998)
MA Thesis: Cyclic Pitch-Class Collections in the Music of Maurice Ravel
Supervisor: Gary S. Karpinski
Musikhochschule Stuttgart, Germany (1992–1998)
– Music theory major (1995–1998)
– Chamber music and Lied accompaniment major (1992–1995)
German State Diploma in Piano and Piano Pedagogy (1989)
Piano studies with Fernande Kaeser; minor in cello with Hélène Godefroy and Heinrich Kammerer (1983–1989)
- Analysis of Maurice Ravel’s music
- Motive transformation and processing techniques
- Schenkerian analysis
- Schenker studies (including the study and dissemination of unpublished writings and archival materials)
- Relationships between musical analysis and performance practice
- Solmisation and hexachord mutation in the works of John Hothby
- “Ravel’s Tonal Axis,” Music Theory Online (in preparation, 2017)
“The Problem(s) of Prolongation in Ravel.” In Essays from the Fourth International Schenker Symposium, Vol. 2, ed. Poundie Burstein, Lynne Rogers, Karen M. Bottge (Hildesheim/New York: Gustav Olms, 2013), 209–249 - “John Hothby’s System of Solmization in La Calliopea legale.” Studi Musicali 2012/2, 353–396
- “Playing with Models: Sonata Form in Ravel’s String Quartet and Piano Trio.” In Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music, ed. Peter Kaminsky (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2011), 143–179
- Schenker’s Lessonbooks (2009), Schenker Documents Online
Edited, translated, and annotated facsimile edition of Schenker’s handwritten lessonbooks. See: http://www.schenkerdocumentsonline.org/documents/lessonbooks/saison.html - “North American Music Theory and Its Institutions.” Yearbook of the Society for Music Theory, Vol. 2 (2007), 35–51. See: http://www.gmth.de/magazine/issue-2-2-2005/content.aspx
Since 1997: Numerous lectures at national and international conferences in the USA, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands