Prof. Dr. Benedict Taylor

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsMusicology
Keywordsphilosophy, musical analysis, music, subjectivity, temporality
Honours and awards

2026: Anthony Pople Award of the Society for Music Analysis

2011: Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical Association

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityCambridge
InstitutionUniversity of Cambridge
InstituteGonville and Caius College

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hermann DanuserMusikwissenschaftliches Seminar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Jan Philipp SprickHochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (HfMT), Hamburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2009

Programme(s)

2008Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2012Benedict Taylor, Albert Gier, Meinhard Saremba Sullivan Perspektiven: Arthur Sullivans Opern, Kantaten, Orchester- und Sakralmusik. Oldib-Verlag, 2012
2011Benedict Taylor: Der Musiker Arthur Sullivan – Ästhetik und Kontext. Arthur Sullivan – Musik-Konzepte 151. Edition Text+Kritik, 2011. 5-21
2011Benedict Taylor: Mendelssohn, Time and Memory: The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form. Cambridge University Press, 2011
2010Benedict Taylor: Cyclic Form, Time and Memory in Mendelssohn’s A minor Quartet, Op. 13. In: The Musical Quarterly, 2010, 45-89
2010Benedict Taylor: Modal four-note pitch collections in the music of Dvořák’s American period. In: Music Theory Spectrum, 2010, 44-59
2010Benedict Taylor: On Time and Eternity in Messiaen. In: Judith Crispin Messiaen: the Centenary Papers. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 222-243
2009Benedict Taylor: 'The Lost Chord': Sentimentality, Sincerity, and the search for 'Emotional Depth' in 19th-Century Music. In: International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, 2009, 207-233
2009Benedict Taylor: Berg and Modernity: Ambivalence, Synthesis, and remaking of tradition in the String Quartet op. 3. In: Studia Musicologica, 2009, 29-48
2009Benedict Taylor: Beyond Good and Programmatic: Mendelssohn’s ‘Reformation’ Symphony. In: Ad Parnassum, 2009, 115-127
2009Benedict Taylor: Resituating Gilbert & Sullivan: The Musical and Aesthetic Context. In: David Eden, Meinhard Saremba, The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 36-49
2009Benedict Taylor: Review of Brian Newbould, Schubert and the Symphony: A New Perspective (Toccata Press, 1992). In: Ad Parnassum, 2009, 11-15
2008Benedict Taylor: Musical History and Self-Consciousness in Mendelssohn’s Octet, Op. 20. In: 19th-Century Music, 2008, 131-159
2008Benedict Taylor: Nostalgia and Cultural Memory in Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915. In: Journal of Musicology, 2008, 211-229