Paul Wilson, Professor (Music Theory and Composition), holds a B.A.
degree from Harvard University, an M.A. degree from the University of Hawaii,
and M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. His teaching specialties
include: core curriculum in music theory, counterpoint, analysis of 20th century
music, Schenkerian analysis, and advanced studies in music scholarship. An active
performer on horn, Wilson is the author of The Music of Béla Bartók (Yale
Press, 1992) and a number of essays and reviews in leading journals of music
theory. He has worked at the University of Miami Frost School of Music since
1982. His teaching assignments include the undergraduate core curriculum in
music theory and ear training, tonal and modal counterpoint, graduate-level
musical analysis, Schenkerian theory and analysis, philosophical issues in music
theory, and advanced analysis of twentieth-century music. He is also very actively
involved with composition students through meetings of the Composition Workshop
and Forum, and he plays French horn regularly with the Other Music Ensemble,
a chamber group devoted to performances of students' works and of classics from
the twentieth-century repertoire. His current scholarly project is a study of
the symphonies of of Sergei Prokofiev.
email: pwilson@miami.edu
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