Prof. Eytan Agmon
Theory and Analysis of Tonal Music
Prof. Eytan Agmon has a double BMus in piano and theory from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (1975), and a PhD in music theory from the City University of New York (1986). His Dissertation, “Diatonicism, Chromaticism and Enharmonicism: A Study in Cognition and Perception,” was supervised by Prof. Carl Schachter. Prof. Agmon taught at the Mannes College of Music in New York, 1981–1983, and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, 1983–1989. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, 1997–1998, and SUNY Buffalo, 2003–2004. Prof. Agmon, a faculty member of the Department of Music, Bar-Ilan University, since 1983, is a founding member (1991) of ESCOM—European Society for the Cognitive Science of Music.
Fields of Interest
Schenkerian Theory and Analysis
Formal Models of Tonality and Diatonicism
Musical Narrativity
Influences Among Composers (with and without anxiety...)
Recent Publications
Their Taste, His Structure: Sound, Texture, Voice Leading, and Form in the Slow Movement of Bach’s *Italian Concerto*
A Manual for One User: Review-Article of Dmitri Tymoczko, *Tonality: An Owner’s Manual* (OUP, 2023)
"Aus Mozart gestohlen": Beethoven and *Die Entführung aus dem Serail*
The Webern in Mozart: Systems of Chromatic Harmony and Their Twelve-Tone Content
Equal Division of the Octave in a Scarlatti Sonata
Equal Division of the Octave in a Scarlatti Sonata
Video demonstration by Prof. Sergio Freitas, UDESC, after my 1990 article