Margaret Notley
Music History
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Margaret Notley received an undergraduate degree from Barnard College (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in junior year) and a doctorate from Yale University. She is the author of Lateness and Brahms: Music and Culture in the Twilight of Viennese Liberalism, AMS Studies in Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). Her work has appeared in Journal of the American Musicological Society, 19th-Century Music, Journal of Musicology, and a number of anthologies. For an article on late nineteenth-century adagios she received the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award in 2000. She has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Musicology since 2001 and an Associate Editor of 19th-Century Music since 2006. Her work has been supported by grants from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society (1995 and 2011).
Since arriving at the University of North Texas in the fall of 1999 Dr. Notley has specialized in teaching courses on music after 1900, and in December 2006 she became the first professor to receive the Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring given by the UNT Graduate Student Council. In recent years she has taught seminars on twentieth-century opera, Alban Berg, and Gustav Mahler, as well as on metaphors of ritual used in reference to the music of Stravinsky, Britten, and Birtwistle. She regularly teaches a master's-level survey of music after 1900.
Most of her current research projects concern twentieth-century topics. Her most recent articles are “Berg’s Propaganda Pieces: The ‘Platonic Idea’ of Lulu,” Journal of Musicology 28/2 (Spring 2008): 95–142; “Brahms and Questions of Lateness,” in Spätphase—Johannes Brahms’ Werke der 1880er und 1890er Jahre: Internationales musikwissenschaftliches Symposium, Meiningen 2008, edited by Maren Goltz, Wolfgang Sandberger, and Christiane Wiesenfeldt, 313–24 (Munich: Henle-Verlag, 2009); and “1934, Alban Berg, and the Shadow of Politics: Documents of a Troubled Year” in Alban Berg and His World, edited by Christopher Hailey, 225-68 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press: 2010).
Dr. Notley also recently edited Opera after 1900, Volume 6 of The Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010). The editor of each volume selected the articles and wrote a substantial original introduction; Roberta Montemorra Marvin is the series editor. Work forthcoming in 2011 includes an essay on Brahms's Gesang der Parzen and a chapter in German on compositional reception of Beethoven's chamber music for a six-volume Beethoven-Handbuch.
