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MAK Su Yin
B.A. (Toronto), Cert TEFL (Cambridge), M.A. (Queens, Cuny), Ph.D. (Eastman)

Mak Su Yin holds a B.A. in English literature and Music from the University of Toronto, an M.A. in Musicology from Queens College, City University of New York, and a double Ph.D. in Musicology and Music Theory from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.  Her approach to musical scholarship is interdisciplinary in nature, and explores the relationship between musical structure and expression in tonal music. Research areas include Schenkerian analysis, text-music relations, musical semiotics, and the history of music theory.  Her recent work has focused on the music of Schubert and Schumann, and her articles have been published in top-ranked journals such as the Journal of Musicology and Eighteenth-Century Music, and major academic presses such as Ashgate and Publications de la Sorbonne. She is recipient of the 2008 Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Music Theory.

Research Interests

Schubert; Schumann; Schenkerian analysis; musical semiotics; history of music theory; literature and music

Contact

Email: msy@arts.cuhk.edu.hk

Phone: (852) 2696-1324

Fax: (852) 2603-5273

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