Deborah Burton

Deborah Burton

burtond@bu.edu

Assistant Professor of Music, Composition and Theory

Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory. Piano Diploma, Mannes College of Music; MM, Yale; PhD, University of Michigan. Dr. Burton has served on the faculties of Harvard; University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Florida International University; Fordham; Michigan; Adrian College; and Yale. Her research concerns opera analysis, counterpoint, and the history of theory, emphasizing Italian sources. Professor Burton has presented recent research at the 2006 Fourth International Schenker Symposium, and the 2005 meeting of the New England Conference of Music Theorists. Co-editor of Tosca’s Prism: Three Moments of Western Cultural History (Northeastern University Press, 2004), she has published articles in Theoria, Studi Musicali, Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana, Opera Quarterly, and others. Dr. Burton was an originator of and participant in the interdisciplinary conference “Tosca 2000” in Rome, honoring the centennial of Puccini’s opera, and the bicentennial of the events that inspired it.