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Joel Leonard Sheveloff (September 26, 1934 - November 8, 2015) was an American musicologist, teacher and author.
Education
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 including Robert Marshall.[2] According to Michael Talbot, Sheveloff is "the doyen of living Scarlatti scholars"[3] 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."[4] Scholars have long assumed Scarlatti's preferred instrument to have been the harpsichord. However, Shevleoff made a case that Scarlatti would have used Bartolomeo Cristofori's newly-invented fortepiano.[5]
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.[6] 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.”[7]
Selected works
- J. S. Bach's Musical Offering: An Eighteenth-Century Conundrum.(Edwin Mellen Press Ltd. published Feb., 2014) ISBN 978-0-77-342913-0
- “Domenico Scarlatti: Tercentenary Frustrations” The Musical Quarterly Vol. 71, No. 4, 1985
- "Domenico Scarlatti," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1980, edited Stanley Sadie. ISBN 978-0-33-323111-1
- "A Masterpiece from an Inhibition : Quashing the 'Inquisitive Savage'" by Joel Sheveloff. 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; "Quaerendo invenietis." Master's Thesis, Brandeis University (1964)
References
- ^ 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
- ^ Marshall, Robert (2004). The Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music. Routledge Studies. ISBN 978-0-41-596642-9
- ^ Talbot, Michael. "The Review of The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style". Retrieved 2017-02-17.
- ^ Sutcliffe, W. (2008). The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-52-107122-2
- ^ Kirby, F.E. (2003). Music for Piano : A Short History. Amadeus Press. ISBN 978-0-93-134086-4
- ^ Cornell, Richard. "cfa mourns the passing of beloved professor emeritus joel sheveloff". Retrieved 2017-02-16.
- ^ Seligson, Susan. "sheveloff bids bu farewell". Retrieved 2017-02-16.