Zbigniew Granat
Music History and Musicology

Zbigniew Granat studied musicology at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and at Boston University, where he completed his doctoral dissertation on Open Form and the Work-Concept: Notions of the Musical Work after Serialism. His research interests include the history of twentieth-century music, musical aesthetics, the history of music theory, and jazz. He is the author of a book chapter on Boulez in Music and Literary Modernism: Critical Essays and Comparative Studies (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006), and has published articles on classical music and jazz in RILM Perspectives,Down Beat, Jazz Forum, Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, Jazz Research Papers, and Polish Review. Dr. Granat has delivered papers at conferences held in England, Belgium, Switzerland, and across the U.S. He has taught at Boston University, New England Conservatory of Music, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and the Berkshire Community College.

Artist Diploma in Piano Performance, State Conservatory of Music, Rzeszów, Poland (1986); M. A. in Musicology and Music Education, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland (1991); Ph.D. in Musicology, Boston University (2002).

Selected courses taught:
Music History Surveys; The Music of Miles Davis; Music Research Techniques; Beethoven; World Music; Masterpieces of Opera; The Musical Work and Musical Performance; Voices and Discourses of Modern Jazz; Introduction to Musical Styles; European Jazz; The Miniature and the Monumental in Romantic Music; Orfeo: Metamorphoses of the Operatic Myth; Jazz Fusions; Music Theory; American Popular Music; Issues of Borrowing in Medieval Music; Research and Bibliography, Introduction to Jazz; The Art of Listening