Jonathan Kramer
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Born | December 7, 1942 |
Died | June 3, 2004 | (aged 61)
Era | Contemporary |
Works | Selected publications by Jonathan Kramer |
Jonathan Donald Kramer (December 7, 1942,
Biography
Kramer received his B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University (1965) and his MA and PhD in music from the University of California, Berkeley (1967 and 1969). His composition teachers included Karlheinz Stockhausen, Roger Sessions, Leon Kirchner, Seymour Shifrin, Andrew Imbrie, Richard Felciano, Jean-Claude Éloy, Billy Jim Layton, Edwin Dugger, and Arnold Franchetti. He studied theory with David Lewin, criticism with Joseph Kerman, and computer music with John Chowning.[1]
Kramer was professor of composition and theory at
His notable students include Robert Carl, R. Luke DuBois, Jason Eckardt, Paul Phillips (conductor), Dalit Warshaw, and Duncan Neilson.[2]
Kramer was married to Norma Berson in August, 1966. They had two children, Zachary Charles, born April 1970, and Stephanie Lisa, born November 1972.
He married Deborah Bradley-Kramer on Jan 2, 2004, in
Active as a music theorist, Kramer published primarily on theories of musical time and postmodernism. At the time of his death he had just completed a book, "Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening" and a cello composition for the
Two funds at Columbia University were named in honor of Kramer upon his death: The Jonathan D. Kramer Memorial Fund for Young Composers, and The Jonathan D. Kramer Legacy Fund.[3]
Selected publications (prose)
- The Time of Music (New York: Schirmer Books, 1988)
- Listen to the Music (New York: Schirmer Book, 1988); Spanish trans. Invitacion a la musica (Buenos Aires: Vergara, 1993)
- Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening (Bloomsbury Press, 2016)
- ed. Time in Contemporary Musical Thought, special issue of Contemporary Music Review (1989–93)
- "The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism," Current Musicology 66 (Spring 1999). Republished in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, ed. Judy Lochhead and Joseph Auner (New York: Routledge, 2002)
- "Postmodern Concepts of Musical Time," Indiana Theory Review 17 (1997)
- "Durations from Nested Ratios and Summation Series: Toward an Approach to Rhythm Appropriate to Computer Composition," in Proceedings of the ACMA 1995 Conference (Melbourne: ACMA, 1995)
- "Beyond Unity: Toward an Understanding of Postmodernism in Music and Music Theory," in Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies (Rochester: U. of Rochester Press, 1995)
- "Unity and Disunity in Carl Nielsen's Sixth Symphony," in A Nielsen Companion (Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1994)
- "Discontinuity and Proportion in the Music of Stravinsky," in Confronting Stravinsky (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1986)
Published compositions (music)
- About Face, orchestra (1989), pub. MMB
- Another Sunrise, mixed septet (1990), pub. MMB
- Atlanta Licks, mixed sextet (1984), pub. MMB
- Cincy in C, orchestra (1994), pub. MMB
- Licks, double bass trio with voice (1981), pub. MMB
- Moments in and out of Time, orchestra (1983), pub. G. Schirmer
- Music for Piano, Number 5 (1980), pub. G. Schirmer
- Musica Pro Musica, orchestra (1987), pub. MMB
- No Beginning, No End, chorus with orchestra (1983), pub. MMB
- Notta Sonata, 2 pianos with 2–3 percussion (1993), pub. MMB
- Obsessions, symphonic wind ensemble (2001), pub. MMB
- One for Five in Seven, Mostly, woodwind quintet (1971), pub. MMB
- Remembrance of a People, string orchestra with piano and optional narrator (1996), pub. MMB
- Renascence, clarinet with electronics (1974), pub. G. Schirmer
- Rewind: A Semi-Suite, orchestra (2000/2003), pub. MMB
- Serbelloni Serenade, clarinet, violin and piano (1995), pub. MMB[4]
External links
References
- ^ "Jonathan D. Kramer". April 22, 2016.
- ^ "Planetudes". Planetudes. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
- ^ "The Jonathan D. Kramer Memorial Fund". Columbia University Department of Music. February 22, 2017. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
- ^ "Jonathan D. Kramer". Columbia University Department of Music. April 22, 2016. Retrieved September 12, 2018.