Daphne Tan, University of Toronto

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Music Theory and the Humanities in Mid-Century America: The Case of Viktor Zuckerkandl
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$50,376

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Music Theory and the Humanities in Mid-Century America: The Case of Viktor Zuckerkandl

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Tan, Daphne

Keywords: (1) History of music theory; (2) Music analysis; (3) Schenkerian analysis; (4) Public scholarship; (5) Eranos; (6) Carl Jung; (7) Liberal arts

$50,376

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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