Music scholar William Drabkin of University of Southampton to visit HHSOM April 22

William Drabkin, professor of music theory at the University of Southampton, will visit UGA for a presentation and seminar April 22. Drabkin will give a presentation on “Schenker and His Circle: Grappling with Bach’s Two-Part Invention in C Minor” in Room 410 of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music from 12:30-1:10 p.m. and again from 2-2:40 p.m.

Drabkin will give a musicology seminar presentation entitled Reconstruction of Haydn, String Quartet Op. 103 from 4:00 - 5:15 p.m., also in Room 410 of the music school. Drabkin will discuss his completion of Haydn’s Op. 103, examining the problems of “what I like to call ‘historically-informed composition,’ analogous to ‘historically-informed performance’: composing within the parameters of a given style period while still managing to say something ‘new.’”

Drabkin is a scholar of international renown in music theory and is the current editor of the international journal Music Analysis, one of the widest circulating music analysis journals in the field. He is a distinguished scholar of the Common-Practice period, specializing in the study of music by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven.