Faculty:Musicology
Dennis Slavin
Associate Professor, Baruch College and the Graduate Center
(Ph.D., Princeton University)
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Baruch College
55 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10010
(646) 660-6504
Dennis Slavin has authored articles on 15th-century music for
international journals, including the Journal of Musicology, Journal of the
Royal Musical Association, Early Music, Studi Musicali,and Musica
Disciplina,and has contributed to the Journal of the American Musicological
Society, the new MGG (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart), Leading
Notes, Notes,and the Dictionary of the Middle Ages. He was co-organizer of the First
International Conference on Binchois (Fall 1995) and is co-editor of Binchois Studies (Oxford
University Press, 2000). He is also editing the songs of Binchois for a new edition of the
composer’s secular music. He is past-president of the Greater New York Chapter of the
American Musicological Society, and is currently serving as Associate
Provost of Baruch College.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:
Binchois Studies, Andrew Kirkman and Dennis Slavin eds. (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2000).
"The Binchois Game: Style and Tonal Coherence in Some Songs from the Mid-Fifteenth
Century." Chapter in Andrew Kirkman and Dennis Slavin eds., Binchois Studies
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 163-180.
"Some Distinctive Features of Songs by Binchois: Cadential Voice Leading and
the Articulation of Form." Journal of Musicology 10 (University of
California Press: 1992), 342-361.
"Questions of Authority in Some Songs by Binchois." Journal of the Royal
Musical Association 117 (Oxford University Press: 1992), 22-61.
"In Support of Heresy': Manuscript Evidence for the A Cappella Performance of
Early 15th-Century Songs." Early Music19 (Oxford University Press:
May, 1991), 178-190.
"On the Origins of Escorial IV.a.24 (EscB)." Studi Musicali 19
(Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia: 1990), 259-303.
"Genre, Final and Range: Unique Sorting Procedures in a Fifteenth-Century
Chansonnier." Musica Disciplina 43 (American Institute of Musicology:
1989), 115-139.
