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Dr.
Tom Pankhurst
Tom is a
senior lecturer at Liverpool
Hope University.
Tom's research interests are in theory and analysis, particularly with
regard to tonality at the beginning of the twentieth century and the music
of Carl Nielsen. He has lectured on Schenkerian analysis at Liverpool University,
Manchester University,
the Royal Northern College of Music and Helsinki University.
He has just completed a textbook for Routledge entitled Schenkerian
Analysis: A Basic Introduction. He also has a particular interest in
teaching the basics of tonal music; his www.tonalityguide.com website is
the outcome of a PALATINE funded project in this area.
Books and Journal
Articles
Desiring closure, yearning for freedom: a semiotic study
of tonality in three symphonies by Carl Nielsen, PhD. Thesis, submitted to
University of Manchester 2004. (link to PDFs of thesis)
'Different names for the same thing: Nielsen's forces,
Schenker's striving, Tarasti's modalities and Simpson's narratives', Carl Nielsen Studies (Vol. 1), Copenhagen: Statens
Humanistiske Forskningsråd, 2003 .
'A semiotic approach to tonal closure in Carl Nielsen's
Fourth Symphony', Musical Semiotics
Revisited, Helsinki:
Acta Semiotica Fennica, 2003.
"We never know where we’ll end up":
Nielsen's alternative endings to the Flute concerto', Carl Nielsen Studies (Vol. 2), Copenhagen: Statens Humanistiske
Forskningsr, 2005.
'Existential Semiotics and Schenkerian Analysis' , Res Facta Nova, forthcoming 2008
SchenkerGUIDE: a handbook and website for Schenkerian analysis, New York: Routledge,
forthcoming, April 2008
Conference Papers
Recent and forthcoming papers read at:
Anglo-American Carl Nielsen Symposium, Birmingham 2001.
Ninth International Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Seminar
in Musical Semiotics, Helsinki 2002.
Society for Music Analysis conference (HUMAC), Hull
2003.
International Congress on Musical Signification, Paris
2004.
SMA Spring Study
Day (Music Analysis and Teaching) Lancaster 2006
International Society of Musicology, Zurich 2007.
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