Butler School of Music
Marianne Wheeldon

Marianne Wheeldon

Associate Professor of Theory

Office (Primary):
512-471-5489
MRH 3.726

UT Address:
Butler School of Music

2406 Robert Dedman Dr., stop E3100
Austin, TX 78712-1555

Email:
mwheeldon@austin.utexas.edu

Marianne Wheeldon received degrees in music theory from King's College, University of London (B.Mus) and Yale University (Ph.D.). Her research interests include the music of Claude Debussy, musical culture in fin-de-siècle Paris, and Schenkerian analysis. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Musicology, Current Musicology, Integral, Perspectives of New Music, and in several collections of essays. She is the author of Debussy's Late Style (Indiana University Press, 2009) and co-editor, with Elliott Antokoletz, of Rethinking Debussy (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Books:

Debussy's Legacy and the Construction of Reputation (in preparation).

Debussy's Late Style (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009).

Edited Collection:

Rethinking Debussy, ed. Elliott Antokoletz and Marianne Wheeldon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).

Recent Articles:

"Defending Tonality: the Musical Thought of Milhaud and Koechlin," Tonality 1900-1950: Concept and Practice, ed. Felix Wörner, Ullrich Scheideler, and Philip Rupprecht (Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart, 2012).

"Tombeau de Claude Debussy: the Early Reception of the Late Works," Rethinking Debussy, ed. Elliott Antokoletz and Marianne Wheeldon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).

"Debussy's Legacy: the Controversy over the Ode à la France," Journal of Musicology, Vol. 27 no. 3 (Summer 2010).

"The String Quartets of Debussy and Ravel," Intimate Voices: the Twentieth-Century String Quartet, Vol. 1, ed. Evan Jones (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009).

Recent Presentations:

"Five Unknown Early Songs of Debussy: History, Style, Analysis, and Performance," American Musicological Society, New Orleans, 2012.

"Debussysme after Debussy," Symposium: "L'héritage de Claude Debussy: du rêve pour les générations futures," University of Montréal, March 2012.

"Debussy, debussysme et les Chansons de Charles d'Orléans ," Colloque International Claude Debussy, Paris, February 2012.

"Debussy's Reputational Entrepreneurs," Symposium: "Music Criticism in France during the Interwar Period," University of Ottawa, November 2011.

"Defending Tonality: the Musical Thought of Milhaud and Koechlin," Symposium: "Concepts and Practices of Tonality 1900-1950," University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, 2010.

"Debussy, Villon, and the Ode à la France," American Musicological Society, Philadelphia, 2009.