Daniel Walden the Queen’S College, High Street, Oxford UK OX1 4AW +1.510.305.4913 | +44 (0)7934 405653 | [email protected]
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Daniel Walden The Queen’s College, High Street, Oxford UK OX1 4AW +1.510.305.4913 | +44 (0)7934 405653 | [email protected] Academic Experience Current Position: The Queen’s College, Oxford University Oxford, UK Junior Research Fellow in Music. 2019–2022 Education: Harvard University Cambridge, MA - Doctor of Philosophy, Candidate in Music. (expected) November 2019 - Master of Arts, with Distinction. - PhD Dissertation: “The Politics of Tuning and Temperament: Transnational Exchange and the Production of Music Theory in 19th-Century Europe, Asia, and North America” - Supervisors: Alexander Rehding (chair), Carolyn Abbate, Suzannah Clark. University of Cambridge, King’s College Cambridge, UK - Master of Philosophy, Music Studies, Starred First and with Distinction. 2012-2013 - MPhil Thesis: “The Synthesis of Architectural and Musical Theory in 16th-Century Italy: Daniele Barbaro, Nicola Vicentino and Fabio Colonna” - Advisor: Iain Fenlon. Oberlin College and Conservatory Oberlin, OH - Bachelor of Arts, Latin Language and Literature, High Honors. 2007–2012 - Bachelor of Music, Piano Performance, Pi Kappa Lambda. - Minor in Historical Performance on Harpsichord. - BA Honors Thesis: “Frozen Music: The Synthesis of Musical and Architectural Theory in Vitruvius’s ‘De Architectura’” - Advisor: Andrew Wilburn. Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome (2010) Academic Awards, Fellowships, and Scholarships: Harvard Horizons Scholar 2019 Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing Arts 2016-18 Leonore Annenberg Public Policy Center - $100,000 grant for archival studies and fieldwork pertaining to microtonal musics; research into enharmonic keyboard construction; commissions of solo works and concertos in alternate tuning systems; international performances and demonstrations GSAS Dissertation Completion Scholarship 2018-19 Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Presidential Scholarship, Harvard University 2013-19 Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Fellow, Villa I Tatti 2016 The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies 1 Daniel Walden The Queen’s College, High Street, Oxford UK OX1 4AW +1.510.305.4913 | +44 (0)7934 405653 | [email protected] Gates Cambridge Scholarship 2012-13 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and University of Cambridge William Barclay Squire Essay Prize for Best Dissertation 2013 University of Cambridge Friends of the Library Excellence in Research Award 2009-10 Oberlin College Florence A. Frew Scholarship for Excellence in Latin 2012 Oberlin College College Merit Scholarship 2007-11 AT&T Foundation Travel and Research Fellowships: John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship 2019, 2017 Harvard Music Department “Visit and Study Japan” Grant Program 2018 American-Japan Society Harvard Summer School Tuition Fellowship [for intensive Japanese] 2018 Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Grant 2017 Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies Ferdinand Gordon and Elizabeth Morrill Fellowship 2016 Harvard Music Department Wesley Weyman Fund Award 2014, 2015, 2016 Harvard Music Department January Term Travel Award 2015 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Richard F. French Fellowship in Music 2014 Harvard Music Department Bliss Symposium Award 2014 Dumbarton Oaks Faculty of Music Travel Grant 2013 University of Cambridge, Faculty of Music King’s College, University of Cambridge Graduate Travel Grant 2013 King’s College, University of Cambridge Conference Presentations: Harvard Horizons Symposium Cambridge, MA “Inventing a Musical Esperanto” April, 2019 American Musicological Society San Antonio, TX 2 Daniel Walden The Queen’s College, High Street, Oxford UK OX1 4AW +1.510.305.4913 | +44 (0)7934 405653 | [email protected] Annual Meeting November, 2018 “Alexander John Ellis: Pitch Fundamentalist” Society for Music Theory San Antonio, TX Annual Meeting November, 2018 Round-Table Discussion, Women in the History of Music Theory “Johanna Kinkel, Microtonalism and Mother’s Milk” Harvard East Asian Studies Conference Boston, MA Annual Meeting November, 2018 “Tanaka Shōhei’s Musical Instruments as Tools of Reciprocal Transnational Exchange” Deutsches Museum Munich, DE The Keyboard as a Musical Interface: Materiality, Experience, Cognition, Idiom January, 2018 “A Music ‘Freed from Artificial Temperament’: The Science and Politics Of Tanaka Shōhei’s Just-Intonation Instruments” Society for Ethnomusicology Denver, CO Annual Meeting October, 2017 “The Root Cause of Musical Disease: KB Deval, Just-Intonation Research, and the Politics of Early 20th-Century Musical Studies in India” Villa I Tatti Fiesole, IT Fellow Seminar Series November, 2016 “Looking For the Origins of Tuning and Temperament in Early Modern Italy” American Musicological Society Vancouver, BC Annual Meeting November, 2016 Joint Panel: “Comparing Notes: Just Intonation, Japan, and the Origins of Musical Disciplines.” [co-organized with Benjamin Steege, Julia Kursell, and Jonathan Service] “Emancipating Microtones: 19th-Century Experiments with 53-Tone Equal Temperament” Renaissance Society of America Boston, MA Annual Meeting April, 2016 “Music, Nature, and Power in the Gardens of the Villa d'Este” American Musicological Society Louisville, KY Annual Meeting November, 2015 “Schoenberg's Typewriter: The Notenschreibmaschine and Musical Composition” Society for Music Theory St Louis, MO Annual Meeting October, 2015 “An ‘Ideal’ Music: Hugo Riemann and 19th-Century Enharmonic Keyboard Design” American Philological Association New Orleans, LA Annual Meeting January, 2015 “Musica Prisca Caput: Vitruvian Music Theory and Enharmonicism in 16th-Century Italy” Society for Music Theory Madison, WI Annual Meeting November, 2014 3 Daniel Walden The Queen’s College, High Street, Oxford UK OX1 4AW +1.510.305.4913 | +44 (0)7934 405653 | [email protected] “Musica Prisca Caput: Vitruvian Music Theory and Enharmonicism in 16th-Century Ital.” Harvard University, Committee of Medieval Studies Harvard, MA Revisiting the Legacy of Boethius in the Middle Ages March, 2014 “Charting Boethius: Music and the Diagrammatic Tree in the Cambridge University Library De institutione arithmetica, Ms. Ii.III.12” Courtauld Institute of Art London, UK Second Annual Postgraduate Renaissance Symposium January, 2014 Visual Arts and Music in Renaissance Europe c.1400-1650 “Music and Alchemy in the Garden of the Villa Pratolino” Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance Tours, FR Barbaro 500: Architecture/musique/peinture/perspective November, 2013 “Barbaro’s Della Musica and the Mechanics of Vitruvian Music Theory and Practice” International Conference on Historical Keyboard Music Edinburgh, UK Second Annual Meeting July, 2013 “Musica Prisca Caput – The Theory and Repertoire of Experimental Keyboards With More Than 12 Keys Per Octave.” MOISA International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music Agrigento, IT Sixth Annual Meeting July, 2013 “Vitruvius and His Maiores: The Legacy of Music Theory and Magna Graecia on Architecture” Invited Papers: Sounding (Out) 19th-Century Italy Cambridge, UK “The Palm of Priority: Harmoniums, Indian-Italian Transnationalism, January, 2020 and the Provincialization of European Music Theory” Hartt Music Theory Colloquium Series Hartford, CT “Sound Atoms and Mother’s Milk: Johanna Kinkel’s Emancipatory Vision November, 2018 of Music Theory” Parsons Festival / NYCxDESIGN Week New York, NY 2018 Strategic Design Conference: Design x Convergence Round Table May, 2018 “What Will The Future Sound Like?” Lecture-Recitals: Kunitachi College of Music Tokyo, JP The Enharmonium and Tanaka Shōhei [純正調オルガンと田中正平] September, 2018 Bi-lingual Joint Workshop with Dr. Tanaka Tasuku (20-50 participants) Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Basel, CH Studio31 Symposium November, 2017 “A Music ‘Freed from Artificial Temperament': The Science and Politics behind Tanaka Shōhei's Just Intonation Instrument” 4 Daniel Walden The Queen’s College, High Street, Oxford UK OX1 4AW +1.510.305.4913 | +44 (0)7934 405653 | [email protected] Cornell University Cornell, NY Keyboard Networks Conference March, 2016 “Decoding Tristan Perich’s Dual Synthesis” Invitations to Workshops/Collaborative Forums: Workshop on Magnetic Tape [title TBD] University of Cambridge - Focused on media studies, global history, anthropology, computing September, 2020 - Co-organized by Peter McMurray and Andrea F. Bohlman Tanaka Shōhei Translation Project Workshop Wadham College, Oxford - Preparation of translations of theoretical texts of Tanaka Shōhei. March, 2018 - Featuring scholars of Japanese Studies, global history, politics, and music theory Workshop on Law and Music Harvard Kennedy School - Meetings at the Program on Science, Technology and Society December, 2017 - Focused on the intersections of international law, sound, and listening - Featuring scholars of law, music, Classics, sound studies, and history of science Transnational Musical Modernities Observatorio Instituto Cervantes, Cambridge, MA - Brief presentations on topics, followed by group discussions Mar. 2017 - Featuring scholars of musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, and Latin American studies University Teaching Experience: Awards: - Oscar S. Schafer Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard Music Department 2017 - Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching 2016, 2018 Head Teaching Fellowship, Harvard University: - Opera [historical