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  • Christopher Park

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    Christopher Park

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    Chris Park is a part-time associate teaching professor in the Techniques of Music department at the Mannes School of Music at The New School. Originally trained as a violinist, he later studied Schenkerian analysis with Carl Schachter. He teaches courses ranging from freshman music theory to advanced analysis, as well as seminars on Beethoven, Wagner's Ring, Mahler, and the nineteenth-century tone poem. Drawing on Schenkerian analysis, his research explores the interaction of tonal structure, musical form, and extra-musical meaning in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century repertoire. His current work brings together three longstanding interests: musical form, tonal structure, and drama. Underlying much of his scholarship is a central question: How does tonal structure create or support musical meaning? His recent work on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony traces the long-range preparation of climactic moments in the Finale, including one of particular social and political significance. He completed his dissertation, Mozart’s Harmonization Exercises for Barbary Ployer, in 1999. Park's opera, Phedra and Hippolytus, based on Euripides' Hippolytus, was fully staged in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 2013. He is the reed organist at the New Boston Congregational Church in Sandisfield, Massachusetts, and the drummer for Otto's German Band in Berkshire County.

    Current Courses

    Adv Theory for GR Students 1
    CATM 5605, Fall 2026

    Analysis 2A
    CATM 4255, Fall 2026

    Graduate Analysis
    CATM 5525, Fall 2026

    Mahler Symphonies
    CBMH 6030, Fall 2026

    Theory 1A Intensive
    CATM 1105, Fall 2026

    Theory 3A
    CATM 3205, Fall 2026

    Future Courses

    Adv Theory for GR Students 2
    CATM 5606, Spring 2027

    Analysis 2B
    CATM 4256, Spring 2027

    Beethoven Symphonies
    CBMH 6018, Spring 2027

    Graduate Analysis
    CATM 5525, Spring 2027

    Lessons 2000/3000: 12
    JLES 3012, Spring 2027

    Theory 1B Intensive
    CATM 1106, Spring 2027

    Theory 3B
    CATM 3206, Spring 2027

    Past Courses

    Adv Theory for GR Students 2
    CATM 5606, Spring 2026

    Analysis 2B
    CATM 4256, Spring 2026

    Graduate Analysis
    CATM 5525, Spring 2026

    Independent Study
    COPA 5999, Spring 2026

    Lessons 2000/3000: 12
    JLES 3012, Spring 2026

    The Ring Cycle
    CBMH 6019, Spring 2026

    Theory 1B Intensive
    CATM 1106, Spring 2026

    Theory 3B
    CATM 3206, Spring 2026

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