Jonathan Kramer

Jonathan Kramer
Født		7. des. 1942 Hartford
Død		3. juni 2004 (61 år)
Beskjeftigelse		Komponist, musikkforsker, musikkpedagog, universitetslærer
Utdannet ved		Harvard University University of California, Berkeley
Nasjonalitet		USA

Jonathan Donald Kramer (født 7. desember 1942 i Hartford, Connecticut, død 3. juni 2004 i New York City) var en amerikansk komponist og musikkteoretiker.

Kramer tok doktorgrad i musikkvitenskap ved University of California, Berkeley i 1969; han var bl.a. student av Karlheinz Stockhausen. Han var professor i komposisjon og musikkteori ved Columbia University fra 1988 til sin død i 2004. Han arbeidet mye med temporalitet i musikk og med postmoderne musikk, og er særlig kjent for boken The Time of Music. Han rakk akkurat å skrive ferdig boken Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening før han døde, men den ble først utgitt i 2016. Ved Columbia University er to stipender oppkalt etter ham.

Bibliografi

• The Time of Music (New York: Schirmer Books, 1988)
• Listen to the Music (New York: Schirmer Book, 1988); spansk oversettelse Invitacion a la musica (Buenos Aires: Vergara, 1993)
• Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening (Bloomsbury Press, 2016)
• ed. Time in Contemporary Musical Thought, special issue of Contemporary Music Review (1989–93)
• "The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism," Current Musicology 66 (Spring 1999). Også publisert i Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, red. Judy Lochhead and Joseph Auner (New York: Routledge, 2002)
• "Postmodern Concepts of Musical Time," Indiana Theory Review 17 (1997)
• "Durations from Nested Ratios and Summation Series: Toward an Approach to Rhythm Appropriate to Computer Composition," in Proceedings of the ACMA 1995 Conference (Melbourne: ACMA, 1995)
• "Beyond Unity: Toward an Understanding of Postmodernism in Music and Music Theory," i Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies (Rochester: U. of Rochester Press, 1995)
• "Unity and Disunity in Carl Nielsen's Sixth Symphony," i A Nielsen Companion (Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1994)
• "Discontinuity and Proportion in the Music of Stravinsky," i Confronting Stravinsky (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1986)

Musikkverk

• About Face, orchestra (1989), pub. MMB
• Another Sunrise, mixed septet (1990), pub. MMB
• Atlanta Licks, mixed sextet (1984), pub. MMB
• Cincy in C, orchestra (1994), pub. MMB
• Licks, double bass trio with voice (1981), pub. MMB
• Moments in and out of Time, orchestra (1983), pub. G. Schirmer
• Music for Piano, Number 5 (1980), pub. G. Schirmer
• Musica Pro Musica, orchestra (1987), pub. MMB
• No Beginning, No End, chorus with orchestra (1983), pub. MMB
• Notta Sonata, 2 pianos with 2–3 percussion (1993), pub. MMB
• Obsessions, symphonic wind ensemble (2001), pub. MMB
• One for Five in Seven, Mostly, woodwind quintet (1971), pub. MMB
• Remembrance of a People, string orchestra with piano and optional narrator (1996), pub. MMB
• Renascence, clarinet with electronics (1974), pub. G. Schirmer
• Rewind: A Semi-Suite, orchestra (2000/2003), pub. MMB
• Serbelloni Serenade, clarinet, violin and piano (1995), pub. MMB