PETER H. SMITH
Associate Professor of Music
Music Theory
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., Yale University, 1992
M.M., Juilliard, 1986
B.M., Juilliard, 1986
Office: 102 Crowley Hall
Telephone: (574) 631-8038
E-mail: Peter.H.Smith.80@nd.edu
Peter H. Smith, Associate Professor, earned his Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. degrees in music theory from Yale University. He also holds M.M. and B.M. degrees in viola performance from The Juilliard School. His research interests include the instrumental music of Brahms, Schenkerian approaches to analysis, and theories of musical form. Smith has published articles on these topics in Music Theory Spectrum (1994 and 2006), 19th-Century Music (1994), Journal of Music Theory (1995, 2000, and 2006), Music Analysis (1997 and 2001), Brahms Studies, volumes 2 and 3 (1998 and 2001), and Intégral (2007). His book Expressive Forms in Brahms’s Instrumental Music: Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet was published by Indiana University Press in the spring of 2005. He has articles on the instrumental music of Schumann and Brahms forthcoming in Theory and Practice, Music Analysis, and in the essay collection Rethinking Schumann, edited by Laura Tunbridge and
Roe-Min Kok.
Smith regularly presents papers at Annual Meetings of the Society for Music Theory and Music Theory Midwest and spoke at both the Third and Fourth International Schenker Symposiums at the Mannes College of Music (1999 and 2006). He also was a co-organizer for a conference titled Critical Perspectives on Schenker: Toward a New Research Paradigm at Notre Dame (1994) and has twice participated in the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory (2002 Institute on Schenkerian Theory and Analysis and 2004 Institute on Musical Form).
Smith has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Brahms Society since 1996 and was elected vice president of the Society in 2007. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Music Theory Spectrum, Theory and Practice, Journal of Schenkerian Studies, and Indiana Theory Review. He was a member of the Awards Committee for the Society of Music Theory (2000-02) and currently is a member of the Society’s Publications Committee and Subventions Committee. He has served Music Theory Midwest as Chair of the Program Committee for the 1999 Annual Meeting, as an Area Representative (1996-98), and as a member of the Awards Committee (1994). In addition to his work at Notre Dame, Smith has taught graduate seminars as a Visiting Professor in the Music Department of the University of Chicago during the winter and spring of 2004.
