Gerald
Zaritzky
Music Theory
Gerald Zaritzky brings over 35 years experience on the NEC faculty to applying theoretical studies to the creative and expressive needs of aspiring professional musicians. He has developed and taught significant areas of the undergraduate and graduate music theory curriculums; he pursues interests in the history, methods, and applications of music analysis; and he has taught and presented lecture-demonstrations on approaches, especially Schenkerian, to hearing, analysis, and performance of 18th-20th-century music. Zaritzky participates in regional and national professional organizations, including as 2005 program committee chair for the Pedagogy Interest Group of the Society for Music Theory, and he is past president of the New England Conference of Music Theorists, former managing editor of Sonus, a Journal of Global Musical Possibilities, and former editor pro tem of Ovenbird Press, Arthur J. Komar, founder. For Spring, 2004, Zaritzky enjoyed a sabbatical grant from N.E.C., to explore further relations between music theory and performance.
B.S., MIT; M.M., NEC. Theoretical Studies with Ernst Oster, Robert Cogan. Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship. Former music theory faculty and chair, NEC Preparatory School and School of Continuing Education. Former acting chair, NEC Graduate Theoretical Studies department. Former visiting faculty, Longy School of Music.
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