Thomas Peattie

Associate Professor of Music

• Faculty
• Instructor

• Email:

  tpeattie@olemiss.edu

• Office Location:

  163 Music Department

• Phone:

  662-915-2168

Research Interests

Romanticism and modernism; Gustav Mahler; the postwar avant-garde; Luciano Berio, landscape and environment; transcription; historiography

Biography

Thomas Peattie is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Mississippi. He holds a B.Mus. in composition and an M.A. in musicology from the University of Calgary, as well as a Ph.D. in historical musicology from Harvard University. His most recent research explores the relationship between Romanticism and modernism with a particular focus on the music of Gustav Mahler and Luciano Berio. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Boston University Society of Fellows, the Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel), the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, and the Northrop Frye Centre at the University of Toronto. In 2018 he was awarded the Dr. Mike L. Edmonds New Scholar Award for Fine and Performing Arts in the College of Liberal Arts. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Gustav Mahler Research Center (Dobbiaco, Italy), as well as on the editorial board of Mahler Dimensions: New Library of the International Gustav Mahler Society and the Gustav Mahler Research Centre (Hollitzer Verlag, Vienna). His essays have appeared in Mahler and his World (Princeton), Music, Modern Culture, and the Critical Ear (Routledge) Giacinto Scelsi: Music Across the Borders (Brepols), Mahler in Context (Cambridge), and The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism. His articles and reviews have appeared in Acta musicologica, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Music and Letters, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and Contemporary Music Review. He is the author of Gustav Mahler’s Symphonic Landscapes (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and is currently preparing a monograph on the transcribing practice of Luciano Berio.

Publications

Gustav Mahler’s Symphonic Landscapes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). , “Music, Romantic Landscape, and the Visual,” in The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism, ed. Benedict Taylor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 56¬–73.

“Luciano Berio’s Nineteenth Century,” Contemporary Music Review 38, nos. 3–4 (2019): 418–40. , “Extraordinary Listening,” with Sherry Lee, in Music, Modern Culture, and the Critical Ear: A Festschrift for Peter Franklin, ed. Nicholas Attfield and Ben Winters (London and New York: Routledge, 2018), 29–50. , “The Expansion of Symphonic Space in Mahler’s First Symphony,” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 136, no. 1 (2011): 73–96.

Courses Taught

• Mus 301 History of Western Music I
• Mus 302 History of Western Music II
• Mus 503 Classical Music
• Mus 504 Romantic Music
• Mus 513 Music after 1900
• Mus 520 Research in Music
• Mus 553 Special Topics in Musicology

• Office, Department or Center

  Department of Music

• School

  College of Liberal Arts

• Campuses

  Oxford