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Daniel Zimmerman
Lecturer, Music Theory
Music Theory & Composition Division
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Dr. Zimmerman specializes in the analysis of early-twentieth-century neotonal music, especially the music of Prokofiev. At the University of Maryland, he has taught graduate seminars on Russian music and on the literature of the string quartet. Before coming to Maryland, Professor Zimmerman held a visiting appointment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught twentieth-century music theory and a graduate seminar on French and Russian neotonal music.
At the 2001 national meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Professor Zimmerman gave a lecture on rhythmic issues in songs by Joni Mitchell. At an earlier national meeting, he presented a paper entitled "Collections Without Clusters in Prokofiev's Etude, Op. 2, No.1." Professor Zimmerman has also lectured at the New York chapter of the American Musicological Society, the Prokofiev 2003 Symposium in Manchester, England, and at Orchestra Hall in Chicago. He has published work in the Journal of Music Theory and the Reader's Guide to Music. In Chicago, Professor Zimmerman worked as a professional violinist, and as a research assistant to Professor Philip Gossett at the Center for Italian Opera Studies.
