Episode six, in which we chat with Dr. Linda Berna (Roosevelt University) about her "retrograde" path to music theory, her dissertation about Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Sergei Prokofiev's "The Butterfly," and applying the philosophies and theories of non-musicians to expand the way the think about music.
Timestamps:
Dean Berna's background: 1:42
Picking a dissertation topic: 18:25
Barber's Knoxville: 27:40
Discussion of Dean Berna's chapter on Prokofiev: 30:52
Graphic notation: 37:12
Which came first, the music or the text? 41:43
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