Ithaca College

 Peter Silberman, associate professor of music theory, recently published a chapter in the Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis:  Expanding Approaches, published by Routledge and edited by Ciro Scotto, Kenneth Smith, and John Brackett.

 Silberman's contribution to this volume, "Form and Time in Trout Mask Replica," discusses several songs from Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band's seminal 1969 album Trout Mask Replica, showing that the songs' forms are more closely related to forms employed by avant-garde classical composers than to standard rock verse-chorus forms.  The resulting disorienting sense of time experienced by listeners also has more in common with classical avant-garde effects than with the single narrative often found in rock. 

Silberman will present on this topic at an upcoming Ithaca Music Form lecture on Friday, Nov. 30, held at 5 pm in the School of Music's McHenry Lounge.