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'''Joel Leonard Sheveloff''' (September 26, 1934 - November 8, 2015) was an [[United States|American]] [[musicologist]], teacher and author.
'''Joel Leonard Sheveloff''' (September 26, 1934 - November 8, 2015) was an American [[musicologist]], teacher and author.


==Reception==
==Reception==
Sheveloff graduated from the City University of New York, [[Queens College]], majoring in clarinet then earned a master’s and a doctorate from [[Brandeis University]]. His 1970 dissertation on the [[keyboard instrument]] music of [[Domenico Scarlatti]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sheveloff|first1=Joel|title= The keyboard music of Domenico Scarlatti : a re-evaluation of the present state of knowledge in the light of the sources.|date=1970|publisher= Ann Arbor, University Microfilms}} OCLC Number:
Sheveloff graduated from the City University of New York, [[Queens College]], majoring in clarinet then earned a master's and a doctorate from [[Brandeis University]]. His 1970 dissertation on the [[keyboard instrument]] music of [[Domenico Scarlatti]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sheveloff|first1=Joel|title= The keyboard music of Domenico Scarlatti : a re-evaluation of the present state of knowledge in the light of the sources.|date=1970|publisher= Ann Arbor, University Microfilms}} OCLC Number:
832477</ref> attracted attention by scholars. According to Robert Marshall<ref>{{cite book|last1=Marshall|first1=Robert|title=The Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music|date=2004|publisher=Routledge Studies}} ISBN 978-0-41-596642-9</ref> and [[Carlo Grante]],<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Grante|first1=Carlo|title=project programmes scarlatti|url=http://hhpromotionslondon.com/project-programmes/scarlatti/|access-date=2017-03-08}}</ref> [[Ralph Kirkpatrick]]'s iconic, exemplary work was eventually challenged by Joel Sheveloff. Sheveloff's Scarlatti scholarship(1970-1985), based on a close analysis and comparison of the [[manuscript]] and printed [[historical editions]] of the [[sonata]]s, contradicted Kirkpatrick's claim to have established a chronological order for Scarlatti's keyboard works. Although Scholars have long assumed Scarlatti's preferred instrument to have been the [[harpsichord]], Shevleoff again made a case that Scarlatti would have used [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]]'s newly invented [[fortepiano]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kirby|first1=F.E.|title=Music for Piano : A Short History|date=2003|publisher= Amadeus Press}} ISBN 978-0-93-134086-4</ref> According to [[Michael Talbot (musicologist)|Michael Talbot]], Sheveloff is "the doyen of living Scarlatti scholars"<ref>{{cite web|last1=Talbot|first1=Michael|title=The Review of The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style|url=http://www.echo.ucla.edu/Volume6-issue1/reviews/talbot.html|accessdate=2017-02-17}}</ref> while W. D. Sutcliffe said that Sheveloff's doctoral dissertation represents the most important detailed work on the sources, providing "the most considered commentary on Scarlatti's syntactical habits." Sutcliffe takes seriously Sheveloff's claim that Scarlatti's Style is composed of 'an abundance of tiny, special details'.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sutcliffe|first1=W.|title=The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style|date=2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press}} ISBN 978-0-52-107122-2</ref>
832477</ref> attracted attention by scholars. According to Robert Marshall<ref>{{cite book|last1=Marshall|first1=Robert|title=The Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music|date=2004|publisher=Routledge Studies}} {{ISBN|978-0-41-596642-9}}</ref> and [[Carlo Grante]],<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Grante|first1=Carlo|title=project programmes scarlatti|url=http://hhpromotionslondon.com/project-programmes/scarlatti/|access-date=2017-03-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312031102/http://hhpromotionslondon.com/project-programmes/scarlatti/|archive-date=2017-03-12|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Ralph Kirkpatrick]]'s iconic, exemplary work was eventually challenged by Joel Sheveloff. Sheveloff's Scarlatti scholarship(1970-1985), based on a close analysis and comparison of the [[manuscript]] and printed [[historical editions]] of the [[sonata]]s, contradicted Kirkpatrick's claim to have established a chronological order for Scarlatti's keyboard works. Although Scholars have long assumed Scarlatti's preferred instrument to have been the [[harpsichord]], Shevleoff again made a case that Scarlatti would have used [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]]'s newly invented [[fortepiano]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kirby|first1=F.E.|title=Music for Piano : A Short History|date=2003|publisher= Amadeus Press}} {{ISBN|978-0-93-134086-4}}</ref> According to [[Michael Talbot (musicologist)|Michael Talbot]], Sheveloff is "the doyen of living Scarlatti scholars"<ref>{{cite web|last1=Talbot|first1=Michael|title=The Review of The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style|url=http://www.echo.ucla.edu/Volume6-issue1/reviews/talbot.html|accessdate=2017-02-17}}</ref> while W. D. Sutcliffe said that Sheveloff's doctoral dissertation represents the most important detailed work on the sources, providing "the most considered commentary on Scarlatti's syntactical habits." Sutcliffe takes seriously Sheveloff's claim that Scarlatti's Style is composed of 'an abundance of tiny, special details'.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sutcliffe|first1=W.|title=The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style|date=2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press}} {{ISBN|978-0-52-107122-2}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
As a professor of music at [[Boston University]], Sheveloff received the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, the University’s highest teaching honor, in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Cornell|first1=Richard|title=cfa mourns the passing of beloved professor emeritus joel sheveloff |url=https://www.bu.edu/cfa/cfa-mourns-the-passing-of-beloved-professor-emeritus-joel-sheveloff/|access-date=2017-02-16}}</ref> Although he lectured on diverse musical subjects covering [[medieval]] keyboard compositions, Baroque composers, [[Purcell]], [[Mozart]], [[Haydn]], Music under the Tsar and the Soviet Union, [[Ravel]], [[Brahms]], [[Schubert]], [[20th-century music]], his scholarly focus was the work of Domenico Scarlatti, [[Modest Mussorgsky]], and [[Igor Stravinsky]]. He was also interested in specialist areas of [[meter]], methods of [[musical analysis]], and text setting as well as interpretation of the complex ''[[Musical Offering]]'', a piece he referred to as “ [[J. S. Bach]]’s [[DaVinci Code]].”<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Seligson |first1=Susan|title=sheveloff bids bu farewell|url=https://www.bu.edu/today/2010/sheveloff-bids-bu-farewell/|access-date=2017-02-16}}</ref>
As a professor of music at [[Boston University]], Sheveloff received the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, the University's highest teaching honor, in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Cornell|first1=Richard|title=cfa mourns the passing of beloved professor emeritus joel sheveloff|url=https://www.bu.edu/cfa/cfa-mourns-the-passing-of-beloved-professor-emeritus-joel-sheveloff/|access-date=2017-02-16|archive-date=2017-02-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216222005/https://www.bu.edu/cfa/cfa-mourns-the-passing-of-beloved-professor-emeritus-joel-sheveloff/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Although he lectured on diverse musical subjects covering [[medieval]] keyboard compositions, Baroque composers, [[Purcell]], [[Mozart]], [[Haydn]], Music under the Tsar and the Soviet Union, [[Ravel]], [[Brahms]], [[Schubert]], [[20th-century music]], his scholarly focus was the work of Domenico Scarlatti, [[Modest Mussorgsky]], and [[Igor Stravinsky]]. He was also interested in specialist areas of [[meter]], methods of [[musical analysis]], and text setting as well as interpretation of the complex ''[[Musical Offering]]'', a piece he referred to as " [[J. S. Bach]]'s [[The Da Vinci Code|DaVinci Code]]."<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Seligson |first1=Susan|title=sheveloff bids bu farewell|url=https://www.bu.edu/today/2010/sheveloff-bids-bu-farewell/|access-date=2017-02-16}}</ref>


==Selected works==
==Selected works==
* ''J. S. Bach's Musical Offering: An Eighteenth-Century Conundrum.''(Edwin Mellen Press Ltd., 2014) ISBN 978-0-77-342913-0
* ''J. S. Bach's Musical Offering: An Eighteenth-Century Conundrum.''(Edwin Mellen Press Ltd., 2014) {{ISBN|978-0-77-342913-0}}
*“Domenico Scarlatti: Tercentenary Frustrations, Part I” ''[[The Musical Quarterly]]'' Vol. 71, No. 4, 1985
*"Domenico Scarlatti: Tercentenary Frustrations, Part I" ''[[The Musical Quarterly]]'' Vol. 71, No. 4, 1985
*“Domenico Scarlatti: Tercentenary Frustrations, Part II” ''[[The Musical Quarterly]]'' Vol. 72, No. 1, 1986
*"Domenico Scarlatti: Tercentenary Frustrations, Part II" ''[[The Musical Quarterly]]'' Vol. 72, No. 1, 1986
*“Uncertainties in Domenico Scarlatti’s musical language.” "Chigiana" Vol. 40, no. 20, proceedings of conference in Siena, 1985
*"Uncertainties in Domenico Scarlatti's musical language." ''Chigiana'' Vol. 40, no. 20, proceedings of conference in Siena, 1985
*"Domenico Scarlatti," ''[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]'', 1980, edited by [[Stanley Sadie]]. ISBN 978-0-33-323111-1
*"Domenico Scarlatti," ''[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]'', 1980, edited by [[Stanley Sadie]]. {{ISBN|978-0-33-323111-1}}
*"A Masterpiece from an Inhibition : Quashing the 'Inquisitive Savage'" in ''Nineteenth-Century Piano Music : Essays in Performance and Analysis.'' edited by David Witten (New York : Garland Publishing, 1997) ISBN 978-0-81-531502-5
*"A Masterpiece from an Inhibition : Quashing the 'Inquisitive Savage'" in ''Nineteenth-Century Piano Music : Essays in Performance and Analysis.'' edited by David Witten (New York : Garland Publishing, 1997) {{ISBN|978-0-81-531502-5}}
*"When Sources Seem to Fail: The Clarinet Parts in Mozart’s K. 581([[Clarinet Quintet (Mozart)]]) and K. 622([[Clarinet Concerto (Mozart)]])."
*"When Sources Seem to Fail: The Clarinet Parts in Mozart's K. 581([[Clarinet Quintet (Mozart)]]) and K. 622([[Clarinet Concerto (Mozart)]])." ''Critica Musica'': Essays in Honor of Paul Brainard: 379-401
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*"The [[Canon (music)|Canon]] a 2 'Quaerendo invenietis' from Bach's ''Musical Offering'' " Master's Thesis, Brandeis University (1964)
* ''Critica Musica'': Essays in Honor of Paul Brainard: 379-401
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*“The [[Canon]] a 2 'Quaerendo invenietis' from Bach's ''Musical Offering'' ” Master's Thesis, Brandeis University (1964)


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 18:19, 18 March 2023

Joel Leonard Sheveloff (September 26, 1934 - November 8, 2015) was an American musicologist, teacher and author.

Reception[edit]

Sheveloff graduated from the City University of New York, Queens College, majoring in clarinet then earned a master's and a doctorate from Brandeis University. His 1970 dissertation on the keyboard instrument music of Domenico Scarlatti[1] attracted attention by scholars. According to Robert Marshall[2] and Carlo Grante,[3] Ralph Kirkpatrick's iconic, exemplary work was eventually challenged by Joel Sheveloff. Sheveloff's Scarlatti scholarship(1970-1985), based on a close analysis and comparison of the manuscript and printed historical editions of the sonatas, contradicted Kirkpatrick's claim to have established a chronological order for Scarlatti's keyboard works. Although Scholars have long assumed Scarlatti's preferred instrument to have been the harpsichord, Shevleoff again made a case that Scarlatti would have used Bartolomeo Cristofori's newly invented fortepiano.[4] According to Michael Talbot, Sheveloff is "the doyen of living Scarlatti scholars"[5] while W. D. Sutcliffe said that Sheveloff's doctoral dissertation represents the most important detailed work on the sources, providing "the most considered commentary on Scarlatti's syntactical habits." Sutcliffe takes seriously Sheveloff's claim that Scarlatti's Style is composed of 'an abundance of tiny, special details'.[6]

Career[edit]

As a professor of music at Boston University, Sheveloff received the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, the University's highest teaching honor, in 2004.[7] Although he lectured on diverse musical subjects covering medieval keyboard compositions, Baroque composers, Purcell, Mozart, Haydn, Music under the Tsar and the Soviet Union, Ravel, Brahms, Schubert, 20th-century music, his scholarly focus was the work of Domenico Scarlatti, Modest Mussorgsky, and Igor Stravinsky. He was also interested in specialist areas of meter, methods of musical analysis, and text setting as well as interpretation of the complex Musical Offering, a piece he referred to as " J. S. Bach's DaVinci Code."[8]

Selected works[edit]

  • J. S. Bach's Musical Offering: An Eighteenth-Century Conundrum.(Edwin Mellen Press Ltd., 2014) ISBN 978-0-77-342913-0
  • "Domenico Scarlatti: Tercentenary Frustrations, Part I" The Musical Quarterly Vol. 71, No. 4, 1985
  • "Domenico Scarlatti: Tercentenary Frustrations, Part II" The Musical Quarterly Vol. 72, No. 1, 1986
  • "Uncertainties in Domenico Scarlatti's musical language." Chigiana Vol. 40, no. 20, proceedings of conference in Siena, 1985
  • "Domenico Scarlatti," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1980, edited by Stanley Sadie. ISBN 978-0-33-323111-1
  • "A Masterpiece from an Inhibition : Quashing the 'Inquisitive Savage'" in Nineteenth-Century Piano Music : Essays in Performance and Analysis. edited by David Witten (New York : Garland Publishing, 1997) ISBN 978-0-81-531502-5
  • "When Sources Seem to Fail: The Clarinet Parts in Mozart's K. 581(Clarinet Quintet (Mozart)) and K. 622(Clarinet Concerto (Mozart))." Critica Musica: Essays in Honor of Paul Brainard: 379-401
  • "The Canon a 2 'Quaerendo invenietis' from Bach's Musical Offering " Master's Thesis, Brandeis University (1964)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Sheveloff, Joel (1970). The keyboard music of Domenico Scarlatti : a re-evaluation of the present state of knowledge in the light of the sources. Ann Arbor, University Microfilms. OCLC Number: 832477
  2. ^ Marshall, Robert (2004). The Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music. Routledge Studies. ISBN 978-0-41-596642-9
  3. ^ Grante, Carlo. "project programmes scarlatti". Archived from the original on 2017-03-12. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  4. ^ Kirby, F.E. (2003). Music for Piano : A Short History. Amadeus Press. ISBN 978-0-93-134086-4
  5. ^ Talbot, Michael. "The Review of The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style". Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  6. ^ Sutcliffe, W. (2008). The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-52-107122-2
  7. ^ Cornell, Richard. "cfa mourns the passing of beloved professor emeritus joel sheveloff". Archived from the original on 2017-02-16. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  8. ^ Seligson, Susan. "sheveloff bids bu farewell". Retrieved 2017-02-16.
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