Notley, Margaret
Music History Coordinator
Associate Professor of Music History
AB, Barnard College; MPhil, PhD, Yale University.
Email: Margaret.Notley@unt.edu
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, National Endowment for the Humanities, and American Philosophical Society.
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 U. N. T. Graduate Student Council. In recent years she has taught seminars on twentieth-century opera, Alban Berg, and Gustav Mahler, as well as an 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 article is “Berg’s Propaganda Pieces: The ‘Platonic Idea’ of Lulu,” Journal of Musicology 28/2 (Spring 2008): 95–142. A conference paper will be forthcoming shortly: “Brahms and Questions of Lateness,” in Proceedings of the International Musicological Conference in Meiningen, Germany, 24–26 September 2008: Spätphase(n)?—Johannes Brahms’ Werke der 1880er und 1890er Jahre / Late Phase(s)? —Johannes Brahms’ Works from the 1880’s and 1890’s, edited by Christiane Wiesenfeldt, Maren Goltz, and Wolfgang Sandberger, 116–27 (Munich: Henle-Verlag, 2009).