Charles Burkhart

Charles Burkhart is a retired musicologist, theorist, composer, and pianist. He is a scholar in Schenkerian analysis.

Burkhart was a student of Felix Salzer[1] (it is implied at Queens College, where Burkhart is also listed among faculty).[2] His M.A. thesis for Colorado college, written in 1952,[3] concentrated on the musical culture of Old Order Amish and of Old Colony Mennonites.[4]

Burkhart's compositions include some organ preludes[4] and choruses he has composed and arranged.[5]

Notes

  1. Cadwallader, Allan; Gagne, David. "The Spirit and Technique of Schenker Pedagogy". In Poundie Burstein and David Gagné. Structure and Meaning in Tonal Music: Festschrift in Honor of Carl Schachter. p. 45. OCLC 224068728. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  2. "Queens College Faculty". Retrieved August 1, 2012. Burkhart is listed here as a Yale graduate.
  3. Burkhart, Charles (1952). The music of the Old Order Amish and the Old Colony Mennonites : a contemporary monodic practice. Colorado College. OCLC 9250631.
  4. 1 2 "Program from an Organ Concert at Goshen College in which Burkhart's Compositions were played by Bradley Lehman". 30 October 2005. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  5. e.g. The deaf woman's courtship : for women's chorus (S.S.A.) a cappella. New York: Mercury Music Corp. 1962. OCLC 77288417.

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