Yonatan Malin studies 19th-century music, music-text relations, and theories of rhythm and meter. He has published articles in Music Theory Spectrum and Music Analysis, and his book on rhythm and meter in the German Lied will be published this spring (2010).
Articles and Reviews
Metric Analysis and the Metaphor of Energy: A Way into Selected Songs by Wolf and Schoenberg, Music Theory Spectrum (2008)
This paper provides additions and alternatives to the current practice of metric analysis, drawing on...
Metric Displacement Dissonance and Romantic Longing in the German Lied, Music Analysis (2006)
This article seeks to explore the hermeneutics of metric dissonance by examining the association between...
Review of Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Early Romantic Poetics: Fragmentation of Desire by Beate Julia Perrey, Music Theory Spectrum (2006)
Book
Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied (2010)
This book explores rhythm and meter in the nineteenth-century German Lied. It illustrates the transformation...
Conference Presentations and Works in Progress
From Poetic Meter to Musical Rhythm: Declamatory Schemas in the Lied (pdf of the powerpoint), Society for Music Theory (2008)
Much has been made of the transformation that takes place when poetic rhythms are set...