Education  1983  Ph. D., Northwestern University, Music  1975  M.A., University of Illinois, Music  1973  B.A., Butler University, Music  American Conservatory of Music (1966-69)
Teaching, Research Interests  Piano  Music Theory  Beethoven  Wagner  John Cage  Mozart  Avant-Garde Music History Opera
Courses Taught  Music Theory  Piano  Mozart & Beethoven  Wagner & Wagnerism  Wagner's Ring Cycle  Revolutionary Music of the 20th Century  Rock Music  Opera Music History Music Listening and Understanding

 
Performances

Professor Martin has given close to 200 public piano performances in his career, which include solo recitals, lecture recitals, chamber music performances, and concerto soloist appearances with orchestra.

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Publications

Martin, James. "Opera Meets Video: The Tristan Project" Wagner News. Summer/Fall 2007
Martin, James. ""Wagner's Tristan und Isolde: Its Place in Artistic and Analytical History." Wagner News, January 2006.
Martin, James. "The Distress of An Injury." Clavier, December 2005.
Martin, James. "Wagner's Anti-Semitic Orientation: Historical Context, Influences, and Pecularities." Wagner News. December 2004.
Martin, James. "The Question of Misogyny in Parsifal" Wagner News, December 2003.
Martin, James. "Wagner's Leads as Leaders." Wagner News, June 2003.
Martin, James. "Wolfram and Wagner meet in Chicago in 2002: Commentary and Brief Analysis of the 2002 Lyric Opera Production of Richard Wagner's Parsifal." Wagner News, July 2002.
Martin, James. "Reflections on Bayreuth 2001: W./R.Wagner Redeemed." Wagner News, October 2001.
Martin, James. "Richard's Wagner's Influences on James Joyce." Wagner News cover article, June 2000.
Martin, James.  "The Structure of the Diabelli Variations of Beethoven." The Beethoven Journal, Spring 1997.
Martin, James.  "The Importance of Beginnings in Beethoven's Fourth Fortepiano Concerto." The Beethoven Journal, Spring 1996.
Martin, James.  "The Status of the Piano in Duo Chamber Music." Clavier, January 1994.
Martin, James.  "Practicing Scales." Clavier, September 1993.
Martin, James.  "Schumann, Hoffman, and Kreisleriana." Clavier, July/August 1991.
Martin, James.  "Beethoven and the Importance of Difficulty." Piano Quarterly, Summer 1991.

Recordings

CD Solo Piano: Beethoven: Sonata in C minor Op. 111; Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit; Chopin: Scherzo in E Major, three Etudes, two Mazurkas (1998)

There are also other CDs in the Cornell Library.

Papers and Lectures Presented

Early Atonality	Beethoven and the French Revolution
Kurt Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper	Rock Music and Racism
John Cage:  Music and Ideas	Teaching Piano
Being a Pianist	Rock Music and Sexism
Mozart Operas	Music and Education in our Schools
The Fine Arts within the Liberal Arts	Beginnings in Wagner's Ring Cycle
Mozart and the Dramatic	Wagner and Joyce:  A Study of Influence
Chopin's Nocturne in B Major, Op. 62, No. 1	The Place of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in History
Religion and Art: Wolfram, Wagner, and the Grail	Orality and Hunger: Metaphors of Kwakiutl Culture and Cosmology
The Opera Diva as Locus of Gendered Contention	Wagner and Anti-Semitism
Parsifal and Misogyny	Verdi's Otello
Brahms Symphony No. 4: Brahms the Intellectual	Dishonorable Honor: Seeing Wagner's Tristan und Isolde Through Honor and Custom
Wagner and Modernism	The Tristan Project

  Awards, Honors

2002 summer, Faculty Fellow Princeton University (NEH)
1999-2000,  Director and Fellow for Newberry Library Humanities Program in the Humanities.
1996-97, fall semester  Guest Professor for Chicago Arts Program.
1994 summer, Faculty Fellow Columbia University. (NEH)

Employment

1981-present  Professor of Music, Cornell College.
1979-81  Assistant Professor of Music, Austin Peay State University.
1977-79  Choral Accompanying Graduate Assistantship, Northwestern University
1973-76  Piano Instructor (Graduate Assistantship), University of Illinois

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