Michael Spitzer

Michael Spitzer is a British musicologist and academic. He completed his undergraduate studies at Merton College, Oxford, and his doctorate at the University of Southampton (awarded in 1993). He taught at Durham University, where he was appointed to a readership in the 2005; he then moved to the University of Liverpool after the 2009–10 academic year, and remains a professor of music there as of 2018. He is a past president of the Society for Music Analysis.[1][2][3][4] According to his university profile, he is a specialist in Beethoven "with interests in aesthetics and critical theory, cognitive metaphor, and music and affect."[1] Spitzer's book Metaphor and Musical Thought (2004) is among the first two book-length music theory publications on metaphor and music music analysis, and distinguishes itself by synthesizing literary metaphor with cognitive-science approaches to metaphor.

Selected publications

Metaphor and Musical Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
Music as Philosophy: Adorno and Beethoven's Late Style (Indiana University Press, 2006).
(Editor) Beethoven (Ashgate, 2015).
A History of Emotion in Western Music: A Thousand Years from Chant to Pop (Oxford University Press, 2020).
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth, (Bloomsbury, 2021)

References

"Michael Spitzer", University of Liverpool. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
For his promotion to a readership, compare Durham University Calendar, vol. 1 (2004–05), p. 204, and Durham University Calendar, vol. 1 (2005–06), p. 206. For his movement to Liverpool, compare Durham University Calendar, vol. 1 (2009–10), p. 208, with "Durham University Calendar 2010–11: Board of Studies in Music", Durham University. All retrieved 29 December 2018.
"Professor Michael Spitzer", University of Liverpool, as archived on 3 February 2012.
"Ambiguity and paradox in Beethoven's late style", EThOS (British Library). Retrieved 29 December 2018.

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[liv-1] "Michael Spitzer", University of Liverpool. Retrieved 29 December 2018.

[2] For his promotion to a readership, compare Durham University Calendar, vol. 1 (2004–05), p. 204, and Durham University Calendar, vol. 1 (2005–06), p. 206. For his movement to Liverpool, compare Durham University Calendar, vol. 1 (2009–10), p. 208, with "Durham University Calendar 2010–11: Board of Studies in Music", Durham University. All retrieved 29 December 2018.

[3] "Professor Michael Spitzer", University of Liverpool, as archived on 3 February 2012.

[4] "Ambiguity and paradox in Beethoven's late style", EThOS (British Library). Retrieved 29 December 2018.