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Roger Mathew Grant

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Roger Mathew Grant is a music theorist specializing in the eighteenth century. He also works as a dramaturge, for example with Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce on a film version of Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire."[1] Grant teaches at Wesleyan University.[2]

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According to a recent interview, Grant believes that "during the eighteenth century, debates within musical aesthetics re-scripted the role that performing musicians play in the creation and communication of affect."[3]

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In 2015 and 2016, Grant collaborated on a "radical reinterpretation" of Mozart's The Magic Flute in an installation at NYU's 80 Washington Square East Gallery with Jonathan Berger, Susanne Sachsse, Vaginal Davis, and Jamie Stewart.[4]

Grant served as musical producer for Pierrot Lunaire (2014), a film by Bruce LaBruce and winner of the Teddy Jury Award, Berlinale International Film Festival.[5]

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  1. ^ Sachße, Susanne; Bachmann, Paulina; Vega, Luizo; Ivanenko, Maria (2014-05-24), Pierrot Lunaire, retrieved 2017-05-19
  2. ^ "Roger Mathew Grant - Faculty, Wesleyan University". www.wesleyan.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  3. ^ Wakefield, Tanu (2017-01-30). "Stanford Humanities Center fellow Q&A: Roger Grant on affect theory". Stanford Humanities Center. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  4. ^ "The Magic Flute - 80 Washington Square East Galleries - NYU Steinhardt". steinhardt.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  5. ^ Pierrot Lunaire (2014) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-02-18