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Deborah Burton<\/strong> is currently Associate Professor of Music at Boston University. Her research concerns opera analysis, counterpoint, and the history of music theory, emphasizing Italian sources.\u00a0 She has taught at Harvard University; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Florida International University, Fordham, University of Michigan and Adrian College. In Spring 2016, she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, and gave a two-day seminar on opera analysis sponsored by the Societ\u00e0 Italiana di Musicologia (SIdM) and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, entitled,\u201cSi pu\u00f2, si deve analizzare l\u2019opera?\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Burton was president of the New England Conference for Music Theory from 2006-2008. Her monograph, entitled Recondite Harmony: Essays on Puccini\u2019s Operas, was published by Pendragon Press in Autumn 2012. Dr. Burton collaborated with Gregory Harwood to write a prize-winning annotated translation of Francesco Galeazzi\u2019s 1796 Elementi Teorico-Practici, volume II, entitled The Theoretical-Practical Elements of Music, Parts III and IV as volume 5 of the Studies in the History of Music Theory and Literature of the University of Illinois Press (2012).\u00a0 She wrote an introduction to Brepol\u2019s facsimile edition of Giorgio Antoniotto. L\u2019arte armonica (1760), and presented on that author\u2019s work at the national meeting of the Society of Music Theory in Fall 2017.<\/p>\n

In October 2013, Dr. Burton organized a series of events celebrating the 200th anniversary of Wagner\u2019s birth, collectively entitled Wagner in Context. These included lectures by Gottfried Wagner, Donald Palumbo and William Berger of the Met Opera, the filmmaker\/documentarian Hilan Warshaw, and an interdisciplinary round-table with BU faculty members. The Facebook page for the festival is www.facebook.com\/wagnerincontext. In December 2010, in honor of the centenary of Puccini\u2019s La Fanciulla del West, she created a website www.fanciulla100.org, moderated a special panel discussion on the opera at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, and organized a symposium and exhibition in conjunction with Boston University\u2019s Howard Gotlieb Archival Center, videos of which can be seen at: http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse. In Spring 2008, she organized and presented at the interdisciplinary conference Opera and Society at Boston University.\u00a0 She has been a guest lecturer at the University of Rome, at the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Program, and at the Hartt School of Music. Dr. Burton presented a paper on operatic Formenlehre at the national meeting of the Society for Music Theory in November 2015. She gave two research presentations at the 2008 AMS-SMT national meeting in Nashville, and presented at the 2006 Fourth International Schenker Symposium, and the 2005 meeting of the New England Conference of Music Theorists. Dr. Burton was an originator of and participant in the interdisciplinary conference \u201cTosca 2000\u201d in Rome, honoring the centennial of Puccini\u2019s opera and the bicentennial of the events that inspired it. Co-editor of Tosca\u2019s Prism: Three Moments of Western Cultural History (Northeastern University Press, 2004), which won an AMS subvention prize, she has published articles and reviews in journals including Music Theory Spectrum Music Theory and Analysis, Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale, Studi Musicali, Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana, and Opera Quarterly.<\/p>\n

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