John Deathridge

Biography

"John Deathridge has taught undergraduates at King’s in all three years, including courses on the Symphony from Berlioz to Mahler, Issues in Music Historiography (the long 19th century), Wagner, and the Origins of Twentieth Century Music. He has also taught postgraduate courses on Music and Enlightenment, Music Historiography, Wagner’s Ring, and Theories of Modernism and the Avant-garde. John liked to centre his courses around works that are established in various repertories and media, subjecting them to musical and social analysis with several tools ranging from Keynote /Powerpoint to piano to blackboard and pen. He prefers classes to formal lectures, expecting students to engage, wherever they can, in an ongoing conversation about history as a way of understanding music in the present, and how it ‘works’ as composition and performance."   "John Deathridge has taught undergraduates at King’s in all three years, including courses on the Symphony from Berlioz to Mahler, Issues in Music Historiography (the long 19th century), Wagner, and the Origins of Twentieth Century Music. He has also taught postgraduate courses on Music and Enlightenment, Music Historiography, Wagner’s Ring, and Theories of Modernism and the Avant-garde. John liked to centre his courses around works that are established in various repertories and media, subjecting them to musical and social analysis with several tools ranging from Keynote /Powerpoint to piano to blackboard and pen. He prefers classes to formal lectures, expecting students to engage, wherever they can, in an ongoing conversation about history as a way of understanding music in the present, and how it ‘works’ as composition and performance."  

Research Interest

"Wagner New music/philosophy Social theory Music criticism Editing/translating Beethoven"