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Professor Savage's areas of specialization include
aesthetics, the philosophy of music, hermeneutics, and critical theory, and he teaches
courses in the Systematic Musicology program. He has participated in national and
international conferences on music theory, music criticism, and ethnomusicology, and has
contributed articles to a number of journals. He is the author of Structure and
Sorcery: The Aesthetics of Post-War Serial Composition and Indeterminancy and is
currently working on a book entitled Aesthetic Reflections: An Applied Study in
Hermeneutics and Music Criticism. He serves as an associate editor for Ex Tempore,
and is a member of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, the
Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought and the Society for
Ethnomusicology. D.Phil., University of Sussex, England; M.Mus., McGill University;
B.Mus., University of Saskatchewan. D.Phil., University of Sussex, England; M.Mus., McGill University; B.Mus., University of Saskatchewan. |
Books
- Structure and Sorcery: The Aesthetics of Post-War Serial Composition and Indeterminacy. New York: Garland, 1989.
Articles
- "Chance as Poeticizing Strategy," ex tempore, 7(2), 1995.
- "Music and the Cultural Imagination," Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology Vol. 10, 1994.
- "Aesthetic Criticism and the Poetics of Modern Music," The British Journal of Aesthetics, 33(2), 1993.
- "The Legacy of the Avant-Garde," ex tempore 6(1), 1992.
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