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David B. Schwarz

Title: Professor

Department: Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology

College: College of Music

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • MPS, New York University, 2001
    Major: Interactive Telecommunications
  • PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 1987
    Major: Music Theory
  • Certificate, Universitaet Hamburg, Germany, 1981
    Major: Deutsch als Fremsprache
  • MA, Indiana University, 1980
    Major: Comparative Literature
    Dissertation: Music and Poetry: Le Marteau sans maitre by Pierre Boulez
  • BA, University of Virginia, 1975
    Major: English

Current Scheduled Teaching

MUTH 4920.705Advanced Colloquium in Music TheorySpring 2025
MUTH 5360.001Analytical Techniques IISpring 2025
MUTH 5010.001Graduate Theory ReviewSpring 2025
MUAG 4200.400Video Games: Behind the ScreensSpring 3W1 2025
MUTH 5370.400Analytical Techniques IIIFall 2024
MUGC 6950.705Doctoral DissertationFall 2024
MUTH 3420.001Eighteenth Century CounterpointFall 2024 Syllabus

Previous Scheduled Teaching

MUTH 5360.001Analytical Techniques IISummer 5W1 2024 SPOT
MUAG 4200.501Video Games: Behind the ScreensSummer 3W1 2024 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 4920.705Advanced Colloquium in Music TheorySpring 2024
MUGC 6950.712Doctoral DissertationSpring 2024
MUTH 6680.001Proseminar in Music TheorySpring 2024 SPOT
MUTH 2500.005THEORY IVSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
MUAG 4200.800Video Games: Behind the ScreensSpring 3W1 2024 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIIFall 2023 SPOT
MUGC 6950.705Doctoral DissertationFall 2023
MUTH 3420.001Eighteenth Century CounterpointFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 4910.708Special ProblemsFall 8W2 2023
MUTH 5360.001Analytical Techniques IISummer 5W1 2023 SPOT
MUAG 4200.501Video Games: Behind the ScreensSummer 3W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5420.00118th Century CounterpointSpring 2023 SPOT
MUTH 4920.705Advanced Colloquium in Music TheorySpring 2023
MUGC 6950.712Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
MUTH 3420.001Eighteenth Century CounterpointSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 2500.001THEORY IVSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MUAG 4200.800Video Games: Behind the ScreensSpring 3W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIIFall 2022 SPOT
MUTH 3420.001Eighteenth Century CounterpointFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUAG 4200.501Video Games: Behind the ScreensSummer 3W1 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationSpring 2022
MUGC 5950.706Master's ThesisSpring 2022
MUAG 4200.800Video Games: Behind the ScreensSpring 3W1 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 4920.701Advanced Colloquium in Music TheoryFall 2021
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIIFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationFall 2021
MUTH 3420.001Eighteenth Century CounterpointFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUGC 5950.706Master's ThesisFall 2021
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIISummer 5W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUAG 4200.501Video Games: Behind the ScreensSummer 3W1 2021 Syllabus
MUAG 4200.502Video Games: Behind the ScreensSummer 5W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5360.001Analytical Techniques IISpring 2021 SPOT
MUTH 5360.800Analytical Techniques IISpring 3W1 2021 SPOT
MUTH 5360.801Analytical Techniques IISpring 3W1 2021
MUTH 2500.004THEORY IVSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIIFall 2020 SPOT
MUTH 2500.002THEORY IVFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIISummer 5W1 2020 SPOT
MUGC 6950.711Doctoral DissertationSummer 5W1 2020
MUTH 5010.001Graduate Theory ReviewSummer 5W1 2020 SPOT
MUAG 4200.501Video Games: Behind the ScreensSummer 3W1 2020 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5360.001Analytical Techniques IISpring 2020
MUTH 5360.800Analytical Techniques IISpring 3W1 2020
MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationSpring 2020
MUTH 5900.702Special ProblemsSpring 2020
MUTH 2500.004THEORY IVSpring 2020 Syllabus
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIIFall 2019 SPOT
MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationFall 2019
MUTH 5680.001Proseminar in Music TheoryFall 2019 SPOT
MUTH 6680.001Proseminar in Music TheoryFall 2019 SPOT
MUGC 5930.704Research Problem in Lieu of ThesisFall 2019
MUTH 5360.001Analytical Techniques IISummer 5W1 2019 SPOT
MUTH 5010.001Graduate Theory ReviewSummer 5W1 2019 SPOT
MUAG 4200.501Video Games: Behind the ScreensSummer 3W1 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5360.001Analytical Techniques IISpring 3W1 2019
MUTH 5360.001Analytical Techniques IISpring 2019 SPOT
MUTH 5360.451Analytical Techniques IISpring 3W1 2019 SPOT
MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationSpring 2019
MUTH 4900.702Special ProblemsSpring 2019
MUTH 4900.703Special ProblemsSpring 2019
MUTH 2500.001THEORY IVSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationFall 2018
MUTH 4900.701Special ProblemsFall 2018
MUTH 4900.702Special ProblemsFall 2018
MUTH 2500.002THEORY IVFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 2500.003THEORY IVFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5360.001Analytical Techniques IISummer 5W1 2018 SPOT
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIISummer 5W1 2018 SPOT
MUAG 5900.701SPECIAL PROBLEMSSummer 3W1 2018 SPOT
MUAG 4200.001Video Games: Behind the ScreensSummer 3W1 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 4920.705Advanced Colloquium in Music TheorySpring 2018
MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationSpring 2018
MUTH 5900.703Special ProblemsSpring 2018
MUTH 2500.001THEORY IVSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 2500.003THEORY IVSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 2500.005THEORY IVSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationFall 2017
MUTH 5360.001Analytical Techniques IISummer 5W1 2017 SPOT
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIISummer 5W1 2017 SPOT
MUGC 4980.501Experimental CourseSummer 3W1 2017 SPOT
MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationSpring 2017
MUGC 5950.706Master's ThesisSpring 2017
MUTH 4920.705Senior Colloquium in Music TheorySpring 2017
MUTH 2500.004THEORY IVSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 2500.005THEORY IVSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationFall 2016
MUTH 6900.703Special ProblemsFall 2016
MUTH 2500.002THEORY IVFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 2500.003THEORY IVFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5360.001Analytical Techniques IISummer 5W1 2016 SPOT
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIISummer 5W1 2016 SPOT
MUGC 5930.701Research Problem in Lieu of ThesisSummer 5W2 2016
MUGC 4890.501Studies in MusicSummer 3W1 2016 Syllabus
MUGC 5890.501Studies in MusicSummer 3W1 2016
MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationSpring 2016
MUTH 6900.701Special ProblemsSpring 2016
MUTH 2500.002THEORY IVSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationFall 2015
MUTH 5680.001Proseminar in Music TheoryFall 2015 SPOT
MUTH 6680.001Proseminar in Music TheoryFall 2015 SPOT
MUTH 2500.002THEORY IVFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
MUTH 5360.001Analytical Techniques IISummer 5W1 2015 SPOT
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIISummer 5W1 2015 SPOT
MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationSpring 2015
MUGC 5930.702Research Problem in Lieu of ThesisSpring 2015
MUTH 6900.702Special ProblemsSpring 2015
MUTH 2500.002THEORY IVSpring 2015 Syllabus
MUTH 2500.003THEORY IVSpring 2015 Syllabus
MUTH 2500.005THEORY IVSpring 2015 Syllabus
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIIFall 2014
MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationFall 2014
MUGC 5950.706Master's ThesisFall 2014
MUTH 6900.701Special ProblemsFall 2014
MUTH 2500.002THEORY IVFall 2014 Syllabus
MUTH 2500.003THEORY IVFall 2014 Syllabus
MUTH 5360.001Analytical Techniques IISummer 5W1 2014
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIISummer 5W1 2014
MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationSpring 2014
MUGC 5950.706Master's ThesisSpring 2014
MUTH 5001.001Music Theory PracticumSpring 2014
MUTH 6900.701Special ProblemsSpring 2014
MUTH 2500.004THEORY IVSpring 2014
MUTH 2500.005THEORY IVSpring 2014
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIIFall 2013
MUGC 6950.704Doctoral DissertationFall 2013
MUGC 5950.708Master's ThesisFall 2013
MUTH 6900.701Special ProblemsFall 2013
MUTH 6900.703Special ProblemsFall 2013
MUTH 2500.001THEORY IVFall 2013
MUTH 2500.002THEORY IVFall 2013
MUTH 2500.003THEORY IVFall 2013
MUTH 5360.001Analytical Techniques IISummer 5W1 2013
MUTH 2410.001Aural Skills IIISummer 5W1 2013
MUTH 5360.001Analytical Techniques IISpring 2013
MUGC 6950.706Doctoral DissertationSpring 2013
MUGC 5950.714Master's ThesisSpring 2013
MUTH 5900.701Special ProblemsSpring 2013
MUTH 6900.705Special ProblemsSpring 2013
MUTH 2500.001THEORY IVSpring 2013
MUTH 2500.003THEORY IVSpring 2013
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIIFall 2012
MUGC 6950.703Doctoral DissertationFall 2012
MUGC 5950.702Master's ThesisFall 2012
MUTH 6900.701Special ProblemsFall 2012
MUTH 2500.001THEORY IVFall 2012 Syllabus
MUTH 2500.002THEORY IVFall 2012 Syllabus
MUTH 2500.003THEORY IVFall 2012 Syllabus
MUGC 5950.701Master's ThesisSummer 5W2 2012
MUGC 5950.703Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2012
MUGC 6950.703Doctoral DissertationSpring 2012
MUGC 5950.703Master's ThesisSpring 2012
MUTH 6680.001Proseminar in Music TheorySpring 2012
MUTH 2500.002THEORY IVSpring 2012
MUTH 2500.004THEORY IVSpring 2012
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIIFall 2011
MUGC 6950.703Doctoral DissertationFall 2011
MUGC 5950.702Master's ThesisFall 2011
MUTH 2500.001THEORY IVFall 2011 Syllabus
MUTH 2500.002THEORY IVFall 2011 Syllabus
MUTH 2500.003THEORY IVFall 2011 Syllabus
MUGC 6950.703Doctoral DissertationSummer 5W2 2011
MUGC 5950.701Master's ThesisSummer 5W2 2011
MUTH 2500.001THEORY IVSummer 5W2 2011
MUGC 6950.709Doctoral DissertationSpring 2011
MUTH 2500.002THEORY IVSpring 2011
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIIFall 2010
MUGC 6950.711Doctoral DissertationFall 2010
MUGC 5950.705Master's ThesisFall 2010
MUTH 1500.001Theory IIFall 2010 Syllabus
MUTH 2500.003THEORY IVFall 2010 Syllabus
MUTH 3510.001Form AnalysisSummer 5W1 2010
MUGC 5950.701Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2010
MUTH 4900.701Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2010
MUTH 4900.702Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2010
MUTH 1400.001Theory ISummer 5W1 2010
MUGC 6950.708Doctoral DissertationSpring 2010
MUGC 5950.704Master's ThesisSpring 2010
MUTH 5900.702Special ProblemsSpring 2010
MUTH 1500.001Theory IISpring 2010
MUTH 2500.001THEORY IVSpring 2010
MUTH 2500.004THEORY IVSpring 2010
MUTH 2500.005THEORY IVSpring 2010
MUGC 6950.720Doctoral DissertationFall 2009
MUTH 3510.001Form AnalysisFall 2009
MUGC 5950.708Master's ThesisFall 2009
MUGC 5900.701Special ProblemsFall 2009
MUTH 6910.701Special ProblemsFall 2009
MUTH 1400.001Theory IFall 2009
MUGC 5950.706Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2009
MUGC 6950.707Doctoral DissertationSpring 2009
MUGC 5950.703Master's ThesisSpring 2009
MUTH 1500.001Theory IISpring 2009
MUGC 6950.712Doctoral DissertationFall 2008
MUGC 5950.702Master's ThesisFall 2008
MUTH 1400.001Theory IFall 2008
MUTH 3410.001Sixteenth Century CounterpointSummer 3W1 2008
MUGC 6950.712Doctoral DissertationSpring 2008
MUGC 5950.705Master's ThesisSpring 2008
MUTH 4920.701Senior Colloquium in Music TheorySpring 2008
MUTH 4910.703Special ProblemsSpring 2008
MUTH 5910.702Special ProblemsSpring 2008
MUTH 6900.703Special ProblemsSpring 2008
MUTH 1500.001Theory IISpring 2008
MUTH 2500.001THEORY IVSpring 2008
MUTH 2500.004THEORY IVSpring 2008
MUGC 6950.711Doctoral DissertationFall 2007
MUGC 5950.702Master's ThesisFall 2007
MUTH 4910.707Special ProblemsFall 2007
MUTH 1400.001Theory IFall 2007
MUTH 2500.001THEORY IVFall 2007
MUTH 2500.002THEORY IVFall 2007
MUTH 2500.003THEORY IVFall 2007
MUTH 2410.001Aural Skills IIISummer 5W1 2007
MUTH 1400.001Theory ISummer 5W1 2007
MUTH 2400.001Theory IIISummer 5W1 2007
MUTH 3510.002Form AnalysisSpring 2007
MUGC 5950.711Master's ThesisSpring 2007
MUTH 5910.702Special ProblemsSpring 2007
MUTH 6900.705Special ProblemsSpring 2007
MUTH 1500.001Theory IISpring 2007
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIIFall 2006
MUTH 3510.001Form AnalysisFall 2006
MUGC 5950.701Master's ThesisFall 2006
MUTH 4910.702Special ProblemsFall 2006
MUTH 1400.001Theory IFall 2006
MUGC 5950.701Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2006
MUTH 6680.001Proseminar in Music TheorySummer 5W1 2006
MUTH 2400.001Theory IIISummer 5W1 2006
MUTH 3510.002Form AnalysisSpring 2006
MUGC 5950.706Master's ThesisSpring 2006
MUTH 4910.703Special ProblemsSpring 2006
MUTH 1400.001Theory ISpring 2006
MUTH 5370.001Analytical Techniques IIIFall 2005
MUGC 6950.711Doctoral DissertationFall 2005
MUGC 5950.708Master's ThesisFall 2005
MUTH 6680.001Proseminar in Music TheoryFall 2005
MUTH 1500.001Theory IIFall 2005
MUTH 2410.001Aural Skills IIISummer 5W1 2005
MUTH 1400.001Theory ISummer 5W1 2005
MUTH 2400.001Theory IIISummer 5W1 2005
MUGC 5950.711Master's ThesisSpring 2005
MUTH 4910.703Special ProblemsSpring 2005
MUTH 6900.703Special ProblemsSpring 2005
MUTH 1400.001Theory ISpring 2005
MUTH 2500.002THEORY IVSpring 2005
MUTH 2500.003THEORY IVSpring 2005
MUGC 5950.708Master's ThesisFall 2004
MUTH 1500.001Theory IIFall 2004
MUTH 2500.001THEORY IVFall 2004
MUTH 2500.002THEORY IVFall 2004

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • David Schwarz. (2014). Strangest Thing: An Introduction to Electronic Art through the Teachings of Jacques Lacan.
  • David Schwarz. (2006). Listening Awry: Music and Alterity in German Culture. (The University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Review in Music Theory Spectrum Volume 32, no. 2.
  • Schwarz/Kassabian/Sieget. (1997). Keeping Score: Music, Disciplinarity, Culture. David Schwarz, Anahid Kassabian, Lawrence Siegel. Eds. (Charlottesville and London: The University Press of Virginia, 1997)..
  • David Schwarz. (1997). Listening Subjects: Music, Psychoanalysis, Culture. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997). Review in New Ideas in Psychology Volume 19, no. 1. Review in Women and Performance #18: 9/2, 1997..
  • Book Chapter

  • Schwarz, D.B. (2018). Speaking of the Voice in Psychoanalysis and Music. Music–Psychoanalysis–Musicology. 25-48. London and New York, Routledge Press.
  • Bard-Schwarz, D.B. (2015). Flux: the Art of David Stout and Cory Metcalf. x (2015) Sante Fe, NM, Burning Books.
  • Book Review

  • Bard-Schwarz, D.B. (1996). Review of The Beatles with Lacan by Henry W. Sullivan. vol. 53, no. 2 (December 1996.) Notes.
  • Encyclopedia Article

  • Bard-Schwarz, D.B. (2003). David Schwarz and Dave Laing, Psychoanalysis. Encyclopedia Of Popular Music of the World (Volume I: Media Industry and Society, eds. John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, Paul Oliver and Peter Wicke London: Continuum, 2003) 117-120. Continuum.
  • Journal Article

  • Bard-Schwarz, D.B. (2015). A DOUBLE-TAKE ON THE BODY: A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH TO THE BODY IN ELECTRONIC ART. Other. Real-Fake.org. http://real-fake.org/theory.html
  • Schwarz. (2010). "A (Dis)Pleasure of Influence: George Rochberg's Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin (1973)" in MUZIKOLOŠKI ZBORNIK Musicological Annual XLV/ 2, Ljublana 2009..
  • Bard-Schwarz, D.B. (1995). (In German) Oi! Musik, Politik, Gewalt. Other. 5 Humboldt Universität zu Berlin..
  • Bard-Schwarz, D.B. (1993). "On Disciplinarity and Music." Review-Essay of Joseph Kerman, Contemplating Music; Disciplining Music: Musicology and its Canons. Bergeron and Bohlman, Eds.; Susan McClary, Feminine Endings. Other. 3 (no. 2)
  • Bard-Schwarz, D.B. (1993). Listening Subjects: Semiotics, Psychoanalysis, and the Music of John Adams and Steve Reich. Other. Volume 31, number 2. (Summer 1993)
  • Bard-Schwarz, D.b. (1986). The Ascent and Arpeggiation in 'Die Stadt,' 'Der Doppelgänger,' and 'Der Atlas,' by Franz Schubert. Indiana Review. Spring (1986) Bloomington, IN, Indiana University.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Sponsored Research

  • Schwarz, D.B., "Scholar in Residence," sponsored by Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel Switzerland, International, $2000 Funded. (2024 - 2024).
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