Mozart.Brahms.Berg (Seda Röder, piano), 2009. The debut album of Turkish pianist Seda Röder.
Listening to Istanbul (Seda Röder, piano), 2010. A CD with contemporary Turkish music.
Eliette und Herbert von Karajan Institut (November 2011 – today)
Geschäftsführer / Managing Director
Packard Humanities Institute (June 2011 – October 2011)
Editor-in-Residence
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (2009-June 2011)
Harvard College Fellow
ZEITSCHICHTEN.COM (2005-today)
Founder and Editor-in-Chief
1. “Zwischen Repräsentation und Populärer Unterhaltung: Musik und Bürgertum im Berlin des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts,” in: Musik, Bürger, Stadt. 200 Jahre Frankfurter Museums-Gesellschaft. Frankfurt am Main, 2011 (forthcoming)
2. “Öffentliche Musikkultur in Berlin an der Schwelle zum 19. Jahrhundert.” in: Leipziger Beiträge zur Bachforschung, ed. Michael Maul. Leipzig, 2011 (forthcoming)
3. “Berliner Musikgeschmack um 1800 im Spiegel von Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstabs Musikalienkatalogen,” in: Urbane Musikkultur von der Spätfriderizianischen Zeit bis ins frühe 19. Jahrhundert. (=Reihe Berliner Klassik. Eine Großstadtkultur um 1800, vol. 12). Berlin, 2011
4. “Milanese Chant in the Monastery? Notes on a Reunited Ambrosian Manuscript,” (Co-authored) in: Ambrosiana at Harvard. New Sources of Milanese Chant (=Houghton Library Studies, vol. 3), ed. by Thomas F. Kelly and Matthew Mugmon, Cambridge, 2010. Download Article Now [4 MB]
5. “Manfred Hermann Schmid: Mozart in Salzburg: Ein Ort für sein Talent. Salzburg: Pustet, 2006,” in: Mozart-Jahrbuch 2007 (review)
6. “Jessica Waldoff: Recognition in Mozart’s Operas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006,” in: Mozart-Jahrbuch 2007 (review)
7. “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasie und Sonate c-Moll, die Originalhandschrift an Mozarts Clavier interaktiv zum Klingen gebracht (Fantasy and Sonata in C Minor, Interactive Recording from the Autograph on Mozart’s own Fortepiano),” in: Notes 63, no. 2 (2006): 395-98 (review)
8. The Century of Bach and Mozart: Perspectives on Historiography, Composition, Theory & Performance. Cambridge, 2005. Catalogue of exhibition at Houghton Library in honor of Christoph Wolff
9. “Manfred Hermann Schmid (ed.): Mozart Studien. Band 13,” in: Mozart Jahrbuch 2005: 327-29 (review)
10. “Maria Bieler: Binärer Satz, Sonate, Konzert,” in: Mozart Jahrbuch 2003/4: 278-79 (review)
Zeitschichten.com — A Web Magazine on Music and History. I founded this magazine in 2006 and currently serve as its principal editor.
The SCRIBE Project — A collaborative research project that focuses on computer-aided scribe identification in music manuscripts. To participate, please email me at roeder@fas.harvard.edu.
Matthias Röder is a music executive, digital marketing consultant and musicologist. Before taking on the position of Managing Director of the Karajan Institute in Salzburg he taught musicology and music history at Harvard University where he received a PhD on “Music, Politics, and the Public Sphere in Late Eighteenth-Century Berlin” in 2010. Matthias is also the founder and editor of the zeitschichten.com web magazine.
Computers have altered so many aspects of musician’s lives, from digital performance, to electronic composition, to how we acquire and share new music, but only recently have they had the potential to transform how we study and analyze music. Michael Scott Cuthbert (MIT) and Matthias Röder (Harvard) introduce the new world of Digital Musicology by showing the techniques and tools that allow scholars to “listen faster”: to examine and analyze large repertories of pieces in the time that a human musicologist could only look at and hear a single work. Through computational analysis, clustering techniques, visualization tools, and data-mining of musical works, the landscape of our understanding of music is being shaken and new ground created for the wired music scholar.
Hör’ ich das Liedchen klingen (Robert Schumann)
“Guitar and Friends”
in collaboration with the
New England Conservatory of Music
presents
A Workshop with Matthias Röder
Organized by Zaira Meneses
New England Conservatory of Music
Jordan Hall Building
ROOM 124
May 21, 2011from 6-8pm
Free Admission
This workshop addresses the fundamental challenges that every young performer faces at the beginning of their career. In this two-hour long seminar participants will learn how to build a successful career in the classical music industry using simple marketing tools and web technologies. The course focuses on management issues and marketing strategies that help independent musicians achieve their goals step by step. The workshop content includes the following topics:
Prerequisites: No background in music management is needed.
What to bring: pen and a notebook. No computer is needed.
Matthias Röder is a music consultant, artist manager and artistic advisor who has worked with musicians, orchestras and non-profit organizations in the US, Germany, Austria and Turkey. Having produced several CD recordings, concerts, video, and educational events, Matthias currently teaches at Harvard University where he earned his PhD in 2010. He is also the founder and editor of zeitschichten.com, a web magazine for music, history and the music business. For his pedagogical achievements Matthias received multiple “Certificates of Teaching Excellence” from Harvard University as well as the Oscar S. Schafer Fellowship awarded for excellence in undergraduate, non-major teaching. Before coming to Harvard, Matthias studied Classical Guitar with Eliot Fisk at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.
I am pleased to invite you to the next talk in the Digital Musicology Study Group at Harvard. Please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested. Thank you!
Trevor Bača
Wednesday, April 6, 5-7pm
Davison Room
Music Department
Harvard University
ABSTRACT: Abjad is open-source software designed to help composers build up complex pieces of music notation in an iterative and incremental way. You can use Abjad to create a symbolic representation of all the notes, rests, staves, nested rhythms, beams, slurs and other notational elements in any score. Abjad is a command-line utility implemented in the Python programming language. In this talk composer and Abjad systems architect Trevor Bača will introduce the system and show Abjad at work in score preparation.
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American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Vancouver, March 18, 2011
Dear colleagues:
I am pleased to invite you to the next talk in the Digital Musicology Study Group at Harvard. Please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested. Thank you!
SASHA: Saxophone Audio Search and Heuristic Analysis
Wednesday, March 9, 5-7pm
Davison Room, Music Department
Harvard University
open to everyone
Back in October I helped out American rockband Incubus to put together a Youth Orchestra for a benefit concert in Santiago de Chile. Here is some video footage from the evening as well as an exclusive look behind the scences of that memorable event. The part about the fabulous Youth Orchestra starts at around 8:35 min. Enjoy!
Mike Einziger from Incubus and I are going to teach a course on inspiration and creativity for amateur musicians at Harvard’s January Term (J-Term). We look at a lot of contemporary music and have students apply the inspiration that comes from studying those works to their songs and arrangements. Here is our course description:
During this 4 day seminar (Jan 18 – 21), students will be examining a variety of compositional methodologies, discussing their historical contexts (with respect to related movements in the history of Classical Music) and utilizing them to create their own recordings using the GarageBand software on their own computers. Materials for this course will be based on a series of interviews, conducted by Grammy-nominated songwriter/Incubus guitarist Michael Einziger, with members of: The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, and Film Composers Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman. Lessons will include musical examples from the artists who were interviewed, and will also feature a special guest lecture by the Senior Program Manager of Presentations at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Johanna Reese.
Enrollment to this course is limited to ten students. All interested students should apply by submitting a short statement of their motivation as well as a short bio/resume. These materials should be sent via email to Matthias Röder (roeder@fas.harvard.edu) before January 5, 2011
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to invite you to the third talk in the Digital Musicology Study Group at Harvard. Please feel free to send this invitation to our colleagues in the Boston area who might be interested. Thank you!
Inventoriana: Annotation and Sharing of Marked-Up Manuscripts and Digital Images (Drew Massey)
Wednesday, December 8, 5-7pm
Davison Room, Music Department
Harvard University
“Milanese Chant in the Monastery? Notes on a Reunited Ambrosian Manuscript,” (Co-authored) in: Ambrosiana at Harvard. New Sources of Milanese Chant (=Houghton Library Studies, vol. 3), ed. by Thomas F. Kelly and Matthew Mugmon, Cambridge, 2010
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I am delighted to announce the second talk of the Digital Musicology Study Group at Harvard University. I hope that many of you will be able to attend. Please forward this invitation widely.
I am delighted to announce the first talk of the Digital Musicology Study Group at Harvard University. I hope that many of you will be able to attend. Please forward this invitation widely.
Shoehorns in Db: Problems of Database Modeling in Musical Source Studies (Mark Knoll)
October 20, 5pm, Kresge Room (Room 114) in the Barker Center, Harvard University
“The Permutation Fugue and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Compositional Development”
Paper held at the
The 14th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music
Queens University Belfast, July 1, 2010
PowerPoint Presentation available here:
Biennial Baroque Conference – Presentation Version 2
In February 2010 I had the great pleasure to introduce Kent Nagano and Jürgen Partenheimer to a large crowd at the German Conference at Harvard 2010. The two spoke about the relation of artist and state, a multi-faceted topic that proved to be a fitting closing for a conference on diverse matters such as renewable energy, peaceful revolutions and health care reform to name just a few. For those of you who had to miss the event, here is the conference report which includes a thoughtful essay by Jürgen Partenheimer and a synopsis of Kent Nagano’s remarks.
In 2001, while I was an intern at the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig I developed a prototype of a Scribe Database which holds information about scribes and copyists of Bach manuscripts. Read the full post
In March 2010 I will participate in a panel at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) on The “Wirtshaus”. Comparative perspectives on the hotel in the Eighteenth Century.
