Faculty Member, Music History
Professor
Thesis Title: Chromatic Completion in the Late Vocal Music of Haydn and Mozart--A Technical, Philosophic, and Historical Study
About
Edward Green, Ph.D., is an active scholar in the field of musicology, and also a prizewinning composer. A Fulbright Senior Specialist in the field of American Music, his own music has been performed by orchestras across the United States as well as in several countries overseas, including Russia, the Czech Republic, Argentina, and England. He received first place in the International Kodály Composers Competition for his Brass Quintet and a Delius award for his Genesis Variations. In 2004, he was awarded a Music Alive! grant jointly sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra League and Meet the Composer. Through that grant, he was composer in residence for the InterSchool Orchestras of New York for the 2004-5 season.
His compositions include works for various chamber ensembles, chorus, and symphony orchestra, as well as much solo music for piano, guitar, and other instruments. He is also an active composer for theater and film and is staff composer for Imagery Films, whose director is the Emmy award–winning filmmaker Ken Kimmelman. Among their recent films is What Does a Person Deserve? It received a Silver CINDY award and was sponsored by the National Coalition for the Homeless. In 2005 Imagery Films released Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana, which is based on Eli Siegel’s Nation prize-winning poem and has a score by Dr. Green. It has garnered several prestigious awards, including the "Grand Festival Award in the Arts" from the Berkeley Film and Video Festival.
His music is available on several labels. Among these are Albany Records, which released his Concerto in C for Trumpet and Orchestra, Arizona University Recordings, his Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Strings and Sextet for Alto Saxophone and Brass, and the North/South Consonance Records CD which contains his Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra garnered two Grammy nominations: for the work itself (Best Classical Contmporary Composition), and for Helen Lin's performance as the piano soloist.)
Dr. Green has been a professor at Manhattan School of Music since 1984, teaching courses in ethnomusicology, jazz history, composition, and the humanities. He received his Ph.D. in 2008 from New York University, with a thesis on the subject of chromatic completion in the late vocal music of Haydn and Mozart. In 2009 he was also named a Fulbright Senior Specialist by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, and will do his first overseas posting at the Pontifical University of Argentina (Buenos Aires) in the summer of 2010, giving doctoral seminars in the music of John Cage and of Duke Ellington.
For his work both as scholar and composer, Edward Green is included in Who’s Who among America’s Teachers and in the International Who’s Who in Music in both their classical and popular volumes. Prior to Manhattan School of Music, he taught at St. John’s University, Pace University, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and the School of Visual Arts. Since 1980, he has also been on the faculty of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, where he teaches an ongoing course in musical aesthetics. From 1972-1978, he had the honor to study with Eli Siegel, the great American poet and scholar who founded the philosophy of Aesthetic Realism in 1941. The biography of Eli Siegel which appears at the Google-Knol website is by Dr. Green.
Edward Green has been a guest composer and lecturer at Tanglewood, the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), the University of Montreal, Baltimore’s Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute, Ithaca College, Dartmouth University, and other important educational institutions here and abroad, including the Pontifical Catholic University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, where he gave talks on the music of Zhou Long and Giancinto Scelsi.
As a musicologist, Dr. Green has also addressed conventions of the American Society of University Composers, the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the Society for American Music, and the College Music Society—among others. Internationally, he has given scholarly papers at conferences in England, France, Austria, Canada, and Ireland on subjects ranging from the life of Felix Mendelssohn to the music of the medieval troubadour Marcabru.
In 2003, Edward Green gave a convocation address at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, and in 2004 he participated in the first International Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, held at the University of Graz, Austria. His presentation in Graz, coauthored with anthropologist Arnold Perey, was entitled “Aesthetic Realism: A New Foundation for Interdisciplinary Musicology.” The conference was sponsored by the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music.
Dr. Green is also well-known as a scholar of Duke Ellington, and is editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington. (He is also co-editor, with John Howland, of another forthcoming work to be published by Cambridge about this great American musician: Ellington Studies.) And Edward Green has also been a frequent public speaker on the life and work of this great composer— beginning with an address to the 1991 convention of the International Association of Jazz Educators. Recently, he has spoken at the Jazz Roundtable at Rutgers’ Jazz Archives, and at the Duke Ellington Society of the United Kingdom in London.
Edward Green’s scholarly essays have appeared in such journals as Onagakugaku--the journal of the Musicological Society of Japan, the International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, the British Journal of Aesthetics, Jazz Perspectives, School Music News, the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Music Educator’s Journal, Ars Lyrica, 1/1—the journal of the Just Intonation Network, Music and Meaning, the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, Three Oranges—the journal of the Sergei Prokofiev Foundation, Choral Journal, the Journal of the Elgar Society, and Composer: USA.
He was also guest editor of a special double edition of Contemporary Music Review in 2007 entitled “China and the West: the Birth of a New Music,” to which he contributed both an introduction and an essay on the music of Zhou Long. This volume has appeared in Chinese translation, published by Shanghai Conservatory Press. In 2009, also, a double issue of the Journal of Musicological Research appeared honoring the life and work of Franz Joseph Haydn, and Edward Green was its guest editor.
Contact Information
208 East Broadway
J 1007
New York, NY 10002
(212) 529-7745