James Wright
Professor
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
College of the Humanities
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School for Studies in Art and Culture
Ottawa, Ontario
James.Wright@carleton.ca
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Wright’s primary research areas encompass music philosophy and aesthetics, music perception, film music, 20th-century music history, post-tonal music theory and analysis, dance and music, and the history of music theory.
His first book, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle rec...
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His first book, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle rec...
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Bio/Research
Wright’s primary research areas encompass music philosophy and aesthetics, music perception, film music, 20th-century music history, post-tonal music theory and analysis, dance and music, and the history of music theory.
His first book, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle received a Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society. His second book, Schoenberg’s Chamber Music, Schoenberg’s World, co-edited by Carleton Emeritus Professor Alan Gillmor, was described by reviewer Frank J. Oteri as “a book that reveals that Schoenberg’s legacy lives on in his chamber music; a substantive volume that fills an important void.” His monograph They Shot, He Scored: The Life and Music of Eldon Rathburn, examines the life and work of a fascinating and prolific Canadian composer who – in addition to producing a large catalog of orchestral and chamber works – wrote more than 275 film scores during a distinguished forty-year career as a staff composer with the National Film Board of Canada.
In 2022, Wright celebrated the launch of his book, co-edited by Alexis Luko: Monstrosity, Identity, and Music: Mediating Uncanny Creatures from Frankenstein to Videogames, and hosted an international conference titled “Music and Antifascism: Reflections on the Past and Possibilities in the Present.”
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His first book, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle received a Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society. His second book, Schoenberg’s Chamber Music, Schoenberg’s World, co-edited by Carleton Emeritus Professor Alan Gillmor, was described by reviewer Frank J. Oteri as “a book that reveals that Schoenberg’s legacy lives on in his chamber music; a substantive volume that fills an important void.” His monograph They Shot, He Scored: The Life and Music of Eldon Rathburn, examines the life and work of a fascinating and prolific Canadian composer who – in addition to producing a large catalog of orchestral and chamber works – wrote more than 275 film scores during a distinguished forty-year career as a staff composer with the National Film Board of Canada.
In 2022, Wright celebrated the launch of his book, co-edited by Alexis Luko: Monstrosity, Identity, and Music: Mediating Uncanny Creatures from Frankenstein to Videogames, and hosted an international conference titled “Music and Antifascism: Reflections on the Past and Possibilities in the Present.”
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