Robert Hatten

Ph.D. (Indiana University), Professor

rohatten @ indiana.edu

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
1201 East Third Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7006

Office: Simon 225E
Phone: (812) 855-1757
Fax:: (812) 855-4936

Dr. Hatten taught at SUNY at Buffalo, The University of Michigan, and Penn State University, and he held a Mellon Fellowship for the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Musical Meaning in Beethoven (Indiana University Press), which was co-recipient of the Wallace Berry Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory in 1997. His articles and reviews have been published in music theory, musicology, and semiotic journals and volumes here and abroad, and has given guest lecture series at universities in Helsinki and Mexico City. His research interests include speculative theories of musical gesture, semiotic and hermeneutic approaches to the interpretation of musical expressive meaning, and twentieth-century opera. His recent theories of musical gesture may be found online in a series of lectures for the Cybersemiotic Institute. He is a member of the Executive Board and the Awards Committee of the Society for Music Theory. Dr. Hatten is also active as a pianist and librettist.