Michael Weinstein-Reiman is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his PhD in Music Theory from Columbia University in 2021. His research is in the history of music theory, specifically the relationships among musical learning, performance, and perception in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Additional areas of interest include the history of philosophy, critical theory, gender and sexuality studies. His writing appears in Nineteenth-Century Music Review and Theory and Practice among other publications. His current book project, The Art of Touch: Musical Learning, Keyboards, and the Modern Self develops an intellectual history of touch in keyboard pedagogy manuals published between 1700 and 1930.
Vol. 15 no. 2 (2025)
In a watershed essay on the difference between music analysis and musical hermeneutics, Kofi Agawu expounds the difficulty we face in treating music as a text.