Peter H. Smith

Associate Professor
Department of Music

Degrees

B.M., M.M., The Juilliard School; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

Research Profile

Smith's research interests include the instrumental music of Brahms, Schenkerian approaches to analysis, and theories of form. He has published articles on these topics in Music Theory Spectrum, 19th-Century Music, Journal of Music Theory, Music Analysis, Integral, and Brahms Studies, and has written a book, Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet (Indiana University Press, 2005). Smith regularly presents papers at Annual Meetings of the Society for Music Theory and spoke at both the Third and Fourth International Schenker Symposiums at the Mannes College of Music (1999 and 2006). He has twice participated in the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory and has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. Smith is Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Brahms Society and serves on the Editorial Boards of Music Theory Spectrum and Theory and Practice.

Contact Information

102 Crowley Hall of Music
631-8038
Peter.H.Smith.80@nd.edu