Music Department Faculty

Mark Evan Bonds
Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor

Office: 213 Hill Hall
Email: mebonds@email.unc.edu
Phone: 919-962-1039

Mark Evan Bonds (Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor) received a B.A. in music and German from Duke University in 1975; an M.A. in musicology from the Universität Kiel (West Germany) in 1977; and a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard University in 1988. He taught at Boston University before joining the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. His research interests include music of the Classic and Romantic eras, particularly instrumental music and aesthetic theory. He is currently on leave, supported by grants from UNC-Chapel Hill, the NEH, and the ACLS, working on a book about the concept of absolute music from the eighteenth century to the present.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Scholarly Books

Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Spanish translation (Barcelona: Acantilado) in press.

After Beethoven: Imperatives of Originality in the Symphony.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Wordless Rhetoric: Musical Form and the Metaphor of the Oration.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Textbooks

Listen to This.  A music appreciation textbook for general undergraduates, with an accompanying set of five CDs. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2009.

A History of Music in Western Culture.  3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2009. Textbook with an accompanying two-volume anthology of scores and a set of 14 CDs. 1st ed. 2003; 2nd ed. 2006; 3rd ed. 2009.

A Brief History of Music in Western Culture.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2004. Chinese translation: Beijing: Pearson Education Asia and Peking University Press, 2006.

Book Chapters

“Aufführungen: Die Musikfeste als Multiplikatoren.” In Beethoven-Handbuch, vol. 1: Orchestermusik. Ed. Rainer Cadenbach and Albrecht Riethmüller. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, forthcoming.

“Listening to Listeners.” In Communication in Eighteenth-Century Music, pp. 34-52. Ed. Danuta Mirka and Kofi Agawu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

“Rhetoric versus Truth: Listening to Haydn in the Age of Beethoven.” In Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric, pp. 109-28. Ed. Sander Goldberg and Tom Beghin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

“Ästhetische Prämissen der musikalischen Analyse im ersten Viertel des 19. Jahrhunderts, anhand von Friedrich August Kannes ‘Versuch einer Analyse der Mozart’schen Clavierwerke’.” In Mozartanalyse im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert. Ed. Gernot Gruber. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1999.

“Haydn’s ‘Cours complet de la composition’ and the ‘Sturm und Drang’.” In Haydn Studies, pp. 152-176. Ed. W. Dean Sutcliffe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

“The Symphony as Pindaric Ode.” In Haydn and his World, pp.131-153. Ed. Elaine Sisman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Essays in Journals

“Replacing Haydn: Mozart’s ‘Pleyel’ Quartets.” Music & Letters 88 (2007): 201-25.

“Idealism and the Aesthetics of Instrumental Music at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 50/2-3 (1997): 387-420.

“The Sincerest Form of Flattery? Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets and the Question of Influence.” Studi musicali 22 (1993): 365-409.

“Sinfonia anti-eroica: Berlioz’s Harold en Italie and the Anxiety of Beethoven’s Influence.” Journal of Musicology 10 (1992): 417-63.

“Haydn, Laurence Sterne, and the Origins of Musical Irony.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 44 (1991): 57-91.

“The Albert Schatz Opera Collections in the Library of Congress: A Guide and a Supplemental Catalogue.” Notes 44 (1988): 655-95.

“Gregorian Chant in the Works of Mozart.” Mozart-Jahrbuch 1980-83, pp. 305-10.

“Die Funktion des ‘Hamlet’-Motivs in ‘Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre’.” Goethe-Jahrbuch 1979, pp. 101-10.

Entries in Reference Sources

“Sonata Form,” “Monothematicism,” and “Fausse Reprise.” The Oxford Companion to Haydn, ed. David Wyn Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

“Symphony: 19th Century.” The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. London: Grove, 2000.

Editorial Work

Editor-in-Chief, Beethoven Forum (University of Nebraska Press, Univesity of Illinois Press), vols. 7-9 (1996-2002).

Recent Courses

Undergraduate: Studies in Music History, 1650-1850; Music and Politics (Honors Seminar); The Orchestra and its Music; The String Quartet from Haydn to Bartok; Music and Drama (Freshman Honors Seminar); The Music of Beethoven; The Music of Haydn and Mozart; Survey of Western Music History; Great Musical Works

Graduate: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony; The Aesthetics of Absolute Music; The American Symphony in the Nineteenth Century; The Fugal Finale; The String Quartets of Haydn; Theories of the Symphony, 1720- 1900; The String Chamber Music of Mozart; Wagner’s Theory of Music Drama; Resources and Methods in Musicology