Arnold Whittall

Arnold Whittall (born 1935) is a British musicologist and academic. Whittall's research areas have primarily been centred around the musical analysis of 20th-century music and aspects of the nineteenth-century, such as the music of Richard Wagner. He is Professor Emeritus of Musical Theory and Analysis at King's College London, having worked as Professor there between 1975 and 1996.^[1] Previously, he has lectured at Cambridge, Nottingham (1964–1969), and Cardiff (1969–1975), and served as visiting professor at Yale University. His students included Australian composer Norma Tyer.^[2]

Since the 1960s, he has contributed extensively to musicology through the publication of books, articles and provided chapters to multi-authored books.^[3] Whittall's initial publications focussed on Benjamin Britten before shifting to 20th-century music more generally. Other publications have addressed key discussions within musicology such as semiotics and modernisms; while others are focussed on the music of specific composers such as Anton Webern, Pierre Boulez, Thomas Adès, and Howard Skempton.

• Whittall, Arnold. Schoenberg Chamber Music. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1972.
• Whittall, Arnold. Music since the First World War. London: Dent, 1977.
• Whittall, Arnold. The Music of Britten and Tippett – Studies in Themes and Techniques. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
• Whittall, Arnold. Romantic Music: a concise history from Schubert to Sibelius. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987.
• Dunsby, Jonathan, and Arnold Whittall. Music Analysis: In Theory and Practice. London: Faber, 1988.
• Whittall, Arnold. Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Whittall, Arnold. Jonathan Harvey. London: Faber, 1999.
• Whittall, Arnold. Exploring Twentieth-Century Music: Tradition and Innovation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• Whittall, Arnold. The Cambridge introduction to serialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Whittall, Arnold. The Wagner Style: Close Readings and Critical Perspectives. London: Plumbago Books, 2015.
• Whittall, Arnold. British Music after Britten. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2020.
• Whittall, Arnold. Schoenberg: 'Night Music' - Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

• Whittall, Arnold. "Boulez at 80: The Path from the New Music". Tempo 59, Issue 233 (2005), 3-15.
• Whittall, Arnold. "Metaphysical Materials: Schoenberg in Our Time". Musical Analysis 35, 3 (2016): 383-406.
• Whittall, Arnold. "Music under the Sign of Modernism: From Wagner to Boulez, and Britten". In The Dawn of Music Semiology: Essays in Honor of Jean-Jacques Nattiez, edited by Jonathan Dunsby, 97-116. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2017.
• Whittall, Arnold. "'Subtle Shifts': Howard Skempton's Twenty-First-Century Modernism". Tempo 72, Issue 284 (2018): 7-19.
• Whittall, Arnold. "Adès at 50: Precarious Poise". Tempo 75, Issue 298 (2021): 10-19.

• Emeritus staff and research fellows at King's College London

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