Peter Schmelz
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Mail code: 0405Campus: Tempe
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Peter J. Schmelz is professor of musicology at Arizona State University. His areas of expertise include 20th and 21st century music; Ukrainian, Russian, and Soviet music, particularly Shostakovich, Sylvestrov, and Schnittke; music in the Cold War; popular and experimental music; film music; music and politics; and sound studies. His two recently published books are: Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR (Oxford University Press, 2021), and Alfred Schnittke's Concerto Grosso no. 1 (Oxford, 2019). Professor Schmelz is currently completing two other book projects, one called Intimate Histories of the Musical Cold War: A Ukrainian Composer, Conductor, and Musicologist Struggle for Independence, Recognition, and the Avant-Garde in the 1960s; the other is titled Some Combinations of Freedoms and Passions: Soviet Experimental Music in the 1980s (on the Ganelin Trio, Sergey Kuryokhin and Pop Mekhanika, Valentina Ponomareva, Sainkho Namchylak, and the group Auktsyon).
Professor Schmelz received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2011. He has received three awards from ASCAP: his first book, Such Freedom, If Only Musical: Unofficial Soviet Music during the Thaw (Oxford, 2009), won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award in 2010; his article on Silvestrov's Symphony no. 5, published in Journal of Musicology, received an ASCAP Virgil Thomson/Deems Taylor Award in 2015; and his third book, Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR received an ASCAP Virgil Thomson/Deems Taylor Award in 2022. In Fall 2017 he was Anna-Maria Kellen fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. In 2019 he was named a Guggenheim Fellow. Professor Schmelz is series editor for Indiana University Press's Russian Music Studies; he edited the Journal of Musicology from 2014-18. He previously taught at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also served as chair of the music department.
- Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley
- M.A. University of California-Berkeley
- B.A. George Washington University
Courses
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MHL 590 | Reading and Conference |
MSI 755 | Historical Research in Music |
MHL 441 | Concerts in the 20th Century |
MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MHL 792 | Research |
MHL 799 | Dissertation |
MHL 798 | Research Colloquium |
MHL 684 | Internship |
MHL 599 | Thesis |
MHL 592 | Research |
MHL 532 | Music Bibliography |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MHL 798 | Research Colloquium |
MSI 601 | Cont Topics in Music Research |
MHL 657 | Topics in Symphonic Literature |
MHL 598 | Special Topics |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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MHL 792 | Research |
MHL 592 | Research |
MHL 590 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MHL 599 | Thesis |
MHL 598 | Special Topics |
MHL 441 | Concerts in the 20th Century |
MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MHL 792 | Research |
MHL 799 | Dissertation |
MHL 684 | Internship |
MHL 592 | Research |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MSI 755 | Historical Research in Music |
MHL 657 | Topics in Symphonic Literature |
MHL 440 | Topics in 20th-Century Music |
MHL 792 | Research |
MHL 799 | Dissertation |
MHL 684 | Internship |
MHL 599 | Thesis |
MHL 592 | Research |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MHL 598 | Special Topics |
MHL 691 | Seminar |
2019 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MHL 598 | Special Topics |
MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MHL 590 | Reading and Conference |
MHL 657 | Topics in Symphonic Literature |
2018 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MHL 598 | Special Topics |
MHL 494 | Special Topics |
MHL 363 | Survey of Russian Music |
MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MHL 590 | Reading and Conference |
MHL 798 | Research Colloquium |
MSI 601 | Cont Topics in Music Research |
2018 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MHL 590 | Reading and Conference |
MHL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
MSI 755 | Historical Research in Music |
MHL 598 | Special Topics |