Michael Cherlin
Michael Cherlin is a Professor of Theory and Composition in the School of Music at the University of Minnesota. His 1983 dissertation, advised by David Lewin, was a study of Arnold Schoenberg’s opera Moses und Aron. Cherlin’s interest in Schoenberg has continued over the years and is reflected in scholarly publications that have appeared in Music Theory Spectrum, The Journal of the American Musicological Society, Perspectives of New Music and The Journal of Musicology and most recently in his book Schoenberg’s Musical Imagination (2007).
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Cherlin teaches courses on the theory and analysis of music from the 18th century until the present. Cherlin’s secondary interests include poetry, philosophy, and literary criticism, and he often integrates ideas from those disciplines into his musical research and teaching. He is an editor and contributor to The Great Tradition and Its Legacy: The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe (2003).