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Janet Levy Fund supporting travel and research for independent scholars |
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Ellen Rosand writes: Janet Levy (1938–2004) was an independent scholar whose research interests covered the theory and analysis, criticism, and aesthetics of music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Educated at Vassar College (B.A., 1960) and Stanford University (Ph.D., 1971), she was the recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She taught briefly at Cornell University (1965–66) and the University of Virginia (1966–67), and for eleven years at the City College of the City University of New York (1967–78). Stints followed at the New School for Social Research (1982–83), the Eastman School of Music (1990), and Rutgers University (1991), but she spent the last decade of her life as an independent scholar. Trained as a violinist, Levy was particularly interested in the string quartet, an interest first explored in her dissertation on the Quatuor concertant in Paris and subsequently in her monograph Beethoven's Compositional Choices (1982). Her penetrating intelligence, sharpened by her study of philosophy at Vassar, marked all of her varied and original publications. In addition to her monograph, these include several beautifully crafted, oft-cited articles: "Texture as a Sign" (1982), a pioneering study in musical semiotics; "Covert and Casual Values" (1987), in which she challenged the establishment by questioning the unexamined assumptions of critical language about music; "Something Mechanical Encrusted on the Living: A Source of Musical Wit and Humor" (1992); as well as her elegant biographical sketch of her husband, Leonard B. Meyer, for his Festschrift, Explorations in Music (1988).
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