Dr. Ildar Khannanov
Associate Professor of Music Theory, Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University
MY TEACHERS
Professor Pieter C. Van den Toorn, UCSB, Music Theory
Professors Valery Podoroga (Institute of Philosophy, Moscow) and Jacques Derrida (UC, Irvine), Philosophy
Professor Yuri Kholopov, Moscow Conservatory, Music Theory
Professor Alexander Frank, a student of Konstantin Igumnov, piano, Ufa State Institute of Arts
Professor Igor Lavrov, a student of Theodor Gutman, piano, Universidad Nacional des Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Professor Vadim Monastyrski, a student of Theodor Gutman, winner of 1976 Liszt-Bartok International competition, piano. Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
Professor Konstantin Batashov, composition, a student of Evgeny Golubev, Moscow Conservatory
Dr. Valentina Kholopova, Moscow Conservatory; my teacher in forms and analysis, mentor and a continuous source of inspiration
TEACHING & STUDENTS
I am teaching music theory using old traditional conservatory methods, information technology, and some philosophical ideas.
For more, see my Teaching page:
RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
Some research ideas, questions and my answers:
What do we analyze, musical form or musical work? Ph.D. Dissertation Russian Methodology of Musical Form and Analysis, UCSB 2003. Revised text: Form vs. Work: A Major Antinomy of Music Analysis. Singapore: Jenny Stanford, 2023. Distributed by Routledge, Taylor and Francis.
How music is non-verbal while the whole universe in controlled by logos? Candidate dissertation Non-Verbal Specificity of Music: Beyond Logos, Moscow Conservatory 1993, published as a book, Moscow: Logos, 2019 (in Russian).
How do they do it? Nomadic cultures do not line up and measure the space! "Line, Surface and Space in Nomadic Music", in: Sounding the Virtual. Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy and Theory of Music. London: Ashgate, 2011.
How to analyze music of Sergei Rachmaninoff? Book: Music of Sergei Rachmaninoff: Seven Musical-Theoretical Etudes. Moscow: Kompozitor, 2011.
Musical semeiosis: “Existential Signification: The Abyss between Chopin’s Op. 6 No. 1 and Op. 68 No. 4.” In: Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Music Signification, Krakow. Acta Semiotica Fennica XXXIII, 2013.
Semiotics of emotional truth in music: “Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Aspects of Emotional Truth in Piano Music of Rachmaninov.” In: Music, Senses, Body. Proceedings from the 9th International Congress on Music Signification. In: Acta Semiotica Fennica, XXIX. Rome: International Semiotic Institute, 2008.
What would be a musical mathematics beyond counting on fingers and with sets? Perhaps, topology in the style of Burbaki? Keynote speech Belgrade.
Why some music tends to rise, while other goes down? Article "Ascending Motion in Music of Scriabin," in: Bulletin of Scriabin's Museum, Moscow, also, web site of Scriabin Association.
What is Asafiev's intonatsia and how can we compare it to other similar terms and categories? “Boris Asafiev's intonatsia in the context of music theory of the 21st century.” In: Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Vol. 44 No. 2, 2018.
Formal functions by WIlliam Caplin-Erwin Ratz-Schoenberg: are we forgetting Boris Asafiev-Igor Sposobin-Viktor Bobrovski? Article "Revisiting Russian Theory Bobrovsky." Theoreia 16, UNT.
Some roots of Hollywood film music in Ukrainian Jewish song culture: “High Noon Dmitri Tiomkin’s Award Winning Ballade and its Russian Sources”. In: The Journal of Film Music. Winter 2009, Volume 2, Numbers 2-4.
Was there a discussion of hierarchy before graphic analysis? “Hierarchical Structure in Music Theory before Schenker.” The Sixth International Conference on Music Theory. In: Res Musica, No. 3, 2011. Tallinn: Academy of Music and Theater, 2011.
How it is possible to incorporate interpretation and performance into music analysis? “Interpretation and Performance as Constituents of Methodology of Analysis at the Moscow Conservatory in the 1970s and 80s.” In: Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie, Amsterdam 2004.
Form vs. Work: A Major Antinomy of Music Analysis. Jenny Stanford, 2023, distributed by Routledge, Taylor and Francis
The DESIGN OF MUSICAL SPEECH
Book: my translation and editing of the primary source in Russian music theory, the text of Boleslav Leopol'dovich Yavorsky Stroyeniye Muzykal'noi Rechi--The Design of Musical Speech of 1908. Bilingual publication: texts of the original in Russian and my translation into English go in parallel. The text of the 1908 book is published together with 200 pages from the Yavorsky's archive, transcribed by me from the handwritten materials. The book includes the Preface, Vocabulary of the terms in two languages, and foot notes. Contains numerous musical examples, schemes, figures and tables.
The sales and distribution rights are delegated to me: license No. ЛД-21/11/22 is signed by Kompozitor publishing house on November 21, 2022. Unless otherwise stated, I am the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights on this website, and in the material published on it, including, without limitation, text, graphics, and images. Those works are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
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Music of Sergey Rachmaninoff: Seven Musical-Theoretical Etudes. Moscow: Kompozitor, 2011.
My book, Non-Verbal Specificity of Music; Beyond Logos (my Russian Candidate Dissertation Text), Moscow: Logos, 2019. In Russian language.
Lince, Surface and Speed: Nomadic Aspects of Melody
My chapter in this exciting volume on Gilles Deleuze and his influence on music theory, by Ashgate
A watershed in analytical tradition: Valentina Kholopova's theory of musical content
My chapter in this magnificent French collection on music analysis, by Delatour
Scriabin and Classical Tradition
My latest chapter on Scriabin's Moscow Conservatory training and tradition in harmony and form, by Boydell and Brewer
PERFORMANCE and COMPOSITION
AN INTER-SPECIE DUET
20190404_200627.mp4Three Piano Preludes: Mo(u)rning Prelude
Spiritual "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" (with Joint Choir of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Luke's Episcopal Churches, Maryland)
MUSIC THEORY CONFERENCING
EUROMAC10, Moscow 09/21-25/2021--DONE!
Conferencing is healthy fun! Click here to see the places where I read my papers:
27th Annual Meeting of The International Shakespeare Association, San Francisco, April 1999
International Conference « Subjectivité comme procédé : formes de la subjectivation humaine dans la culture russe », Université de Fribourg, Switzerland , March 2000
Annual Meeting of American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2001
Annual Meeting of the Society of Ethnomusicology, Estes Park, Colorado, October 2002
International Musicological Colloquium “New Music in the “New” Europe 1918–1938: Ideology, Theory, and Practice,” Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 2003
International Meeting of the College Music Society, San Jose, Costa Rica, July 2003
6th Conference of the Dutch Society for Music Theory, Utrecht, Netherlands, February 2004.
International Symposium “Music in France,” Melbourne, Australia, summer 2004
8th International Congress on Musical Signification, Université de Paris 1–Panthéon Sorbonne, France, October 2004
International Symposium “Music in France,” Melbourne, Australia, summer 2004
Dublin International Conference on Music Analysis, Ireland, July 2005
9th International Congress on Musical Signification, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy, September 2006
Musicological Colloquium “Darmstadt, Du Stadt meiner Träume": the international reception of post-war Darmstadt as the Shangri-La of musical modernism,” Brno, Czech Republic, 2006
World Congress of Semiotics organized by International Association for Semiotic Studies / Association International de Sémiotique, University of Helsinki, Finland. Summer 2007.
4th International Conference S. Rachmaninoff: On the Watershed of Centuries. Kharkiv Ukraine, 2007.
6th European Music Analysis Conference (EUROMAC) and the 7th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Music Theory. University of Freiburg, Germany. October 2007
International Conference on Byzantine Hymnology, Athens, Greece, June 2009
International Conference on Music and Emotion, Durham, UK, September 2009
9th International Conference in Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM), Paris, l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie, October 2009
International Conference Analysis Today, Strasbourg, France, November 2009
International Conference “1948 and All That,” University of Cambridge, UK, November 2009
International Conference “Modernization of Higher Music Education and Implementation of the Bologna Process Principles in Russia, Countries of CIS and Europe”. St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Conservatory, September 2010
11th International Congress on Music Signification. Krakow Academy of Music, September 2010.
6th International Conference on Music Theory. Estonian Academy of Music and Theater, Tallinn, October 2010
The Inauguration Meeting of the Russian Society for Theory of Music. Moscow Conservatory, April 2011
International Conference “Music Theory and Criticism.” BASEES/REEM. Oxford University, UK. October 2011
International Conference “Music in Russia and in the Former Soviet Union. Reappraisal and Rediscovery.” Durham University, UK. July 2011
7th European Music Analysis Conference (EUROMAC). Rome, Conservatorio di Musica, Santa Cecilia. September 2011
International Conference “(M)other Russia: Evolution or Revolution.” University of London-Goldsmith College in association with the Institute of Musical Research and BBC Symphony Orchestra. University of London, UK. April 2012
International Conference “Music of Scriabin in Light of History and Style of the 21st Century.” Moscow Conservatory. April 2012
“Reassessing the Rite: A Centennial Conference.” Invited Paper. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 2012
International Conference, dedicated to 140th anniversary of Rachmaninoff “Music of Rachmaninoff and the 21st Century: The Past and Present.” Moscow Conservatory, April 2013
1st Congress of the Russian Society for Theory of Music (OTM). St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory and St. Petersburg University, Fall 2013
8th European Music Analysis Conference (EUROMAC), Leuven, October 2014
“A Path to Scriabin.” International Conference, Moscow, Memorial Museum of Scriabin and Memorial Museum of Goldenveizer, April 2015
2nd Congress of the Russian Society for Theory of Music (OTM). Moscow Conservatory, October 2015
Annual Meeting of American Society for Music Theory (SMT). St. Louis, October 2015
9th European Music Analysis Conference (EUROMAC). Strasbourg, Strasbourg University, June 2017
3rd International Congress of Russian Society for Theory of Music (OTM) “Revolutions in Musical Art.” Moscow, Moscow Conservatory, September 2017
International Conference « Analyse et création musicales pour l’image. » Journées d’Analyse Musicale by the Société Française d’Analyse Musicale. Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse, Paris et Conservatoire Hector Berlioz, Paris, November 2017
International Conference “Terminology research in musicology and the humanities.” Music Academy, Zagreb, May 2018
The International Conference “Sharing Ideas in Music Theory: A Continuous Colloqui.” Beijing, China Conservatory, March 2018
International Conference « C. Debussy, F. Couperin et la musique française : analyses, théories, interprétations. » Journées d’Analyse Musicale by the Société Française d’Analyse Musicale. Conservatoire Darius-Milhaud d'Aix-en-Provence, France, November 2018
International Conference “Simpósio Música Analítica.” Catholic University of Porto, Portugal, March 2019
International Conference of the French Society for Music Analysis, Anniversary of the SFAM, Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional, November 2019
Making an announcement about EUROMAC10 in Moscow at EUROMAC9 in Strasbourg
2nd Congress of Russian Society of Music Theory, with Giorgio Sanguinetti, Willam Caplin, Philip Ewell, Tatiana Tzaregradskaya, Roman Nassonov and Konstantin Zenkin
Conference at Cambridge University, with Marina Frolova-Walker and Richard Taruskin
Invited paper and a masterclass at China Conservatory, Beijing
professional LIedership
My presentation of the idea of the Russian Society for Music Theory. The Inauguration Meeting of the OTM, Moscow Conservatory, April 2011