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Dr. Yonatan Bar-Yoshafat

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The open university of Israel Department of Literature, Language and the Arts 1 University Road, P. O. Box 808, Raanana 4353701
Office:09-778-1984 Mobile:972-525-289655 Email:yonatanb@openu.ac.il

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Theory and Analysis, Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music, Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Music History and Historiography, Critical Theory. 

2013-2015
Postdoctoral Research, Cornell University
2005-2012
Ph. D. in Musicology, Tel-Aviv University
2002-2004
Direct Ph. D. track in Musicology (Interim Requirements), Tel-Aviv University
1997-2001
Double Major Degree in Musicology (B. A., Summa Cum Laude) and Composition (B. Mus., Cum Laude), Tel-Aviv University
2024
Research grant, The Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
2024

Research grant, The Open University of Israel's Research Fund. 

2023

Research grant, The Open University of Israel's Research Fund. 

2022

Research grant, The Open University of Israel's Research Fund. 

2017

Research grant, The Open University of Israel's Research Fund. 

2013
Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship (US-Israel Educational Foundation)
2012
Res​earch Stipend, the Research Fund of the Open University of Israel
2022
The Society for Music Theory.
2012
The Israeli Musicological Society.
2022

Member of the departmental teaching committee.

2019

Academic supervisor of undergraduate music courses.

2012
Member of the humanities subcommittee.

Bar-Yoshafat, Yonatan. 2024. “Retracted Tonal Areas and the 'Interrupted SK Exposition': Circular Directionality in Early Nineteenth-Century Music", Music Theory Spectrum (forthcoming).

Bar-Yoshafat, Yonatan. 2021. “On the Musically Melancholic: Temporality and Affects in Western Music History", History of European Ideas 47 (6): 918-938.

Bar-Yoshafat, Yonatan. 2016. “D-Moll at the mall: Defending Criticism against its Critics", Pe'imot, Journal of Music and Culture: https://peimotjournal.co.il/en/issue/1/d-moll-at-the-mall-defending-criticism-against-its-critics/. Revised and expanded version of 2010 (translated to English). 

Bar-Yoshafat, Yonatan. 2013. “Kenner und Liebhaber – Yet another Look", International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 44 (1): 19-47 (shortlisted for the AMS 'Einstein Award', 2014).

Bar-Yoshafat, Yonatan. 2010. “D-Moll at the mall: Defending Criticism against its Critics", Pe'imot, Journal of Music and Culture (1): 49-66 [in Hebrew].

Bar-Yoshafat, Yonatan. 2013. “Ironizing Allegory of Listening – Deconstructing Monelle", in Panos, N., et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Semiotics in Memory of Raymond Monelle (The University of Edinburgh and The International Project on Music and Dance Semiotics), 35-45.

Bar-Yoshafat, Yonatan. 2022. “Conference Report: International Conference on Musical Form, UK, June 2021". Eighteenth-Century Music 19 (1): 104-106.

Bar-Yoshafat, Yonatan. 2015. “Book Review: David Schulenberg, The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Eastman Studies in Music. Ralph P. Locke, General Editor (Rochester, NY: Rochester University Press, 2014), Journal of Musicological Research 34 (3): 266-269.

“Georg Philipp Telemann: The man who composed to the point of oblivion" (Gallery, Haaretz, 12/05/2017 [Interview, in Hebrew]). 

“The (Romantic) Long Way Around: Retracted Tonal Areas and the 'Deferred SK Exposition'", The Society for Music Theory Annual Conference, November 2024, Jacksonville, Florida.

“The (Romantic) Long Way Around: Retracted Tonal Areas and the 'Deferred SK Exposition'", Edinburgh Music Analysis Conference (EdMAC 2024), July 2024, University of Edinburgh , UK.

“Retracted Tonal Areas in Sonata-Form Expositions: Circular Directionality in Early Nineteenth-Century Music", the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory, Denver, Colorado, November 2023.

“Retracted Tonal Areas in Sonata-Form Expositions: Circular Directionality in Early Nineteenth-Century Music", The Israeli Musicological Society summer meeting, The Levinsky-Wingate Academic College, Israel, July 2023.

“Declined MCs, Modulating STs, and RTZs: Wandering Expositions at the Turn of the 19th Century", The Israeli Musicological Society summer meeting, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, June 2022. 

“Hummel's 'Tempest': The F-sharp Minor Piano Sonata and Early Nineteenth-Century Formenlehre", Birmingham Music Analysis Conference (BrumMAC 2021), University of Birmingham, UK (online), July 2021.

“Dussek, Reicha, Hummel and the 'Linear Roundabout': Retracted Tonal Zones (RTZ) in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Three-Key Expositions", International Conference on Musical Form (Under the auspices of the Society for Music Analysis), Newcastle, UK (online), June 2021.

“Deformations or Reformations? “Form-as-Process" in the works of Dussek, Reicha and Hummel", The Israeli Musicological Society winter meeting, Israel (online), February 2021. 

“On the Musically Melancholic", Music Colloquium, the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University, Israel, December 2019. 

“Compositional Ambiguity in an Incredulous Age: C. P. E. Bach and the Darker Sides of Empfindsamkeit", Melancholy and Solitude in the History of Ideas and Art History, workshop sponsored by the Uhl Foundation, Buchnerhof, South Tyrol, October 2016.

“'Skepticism and Anti-Sentimentalism in C. P. E. Bach's Program Trio Wq. 161/1", Mood – Aesthetic, Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives, University of Warwick, UK, May 2016.

“'As obscure and unintelligible as the warbling of larks and linnets': Latent Agendas in C. P. E. Bach's C Minor Program Trio Wq. 161/1 (H.579)", Winter Meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Boston University, US, February 2015.

“The Limits of Subjectivity? Self-Reflexive Manifestations in C. P. E. Bach's E Minor Keyboard Concerto Wq. 15", C. P. E. Bach and Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Culture, University of Oxford, UK, November 2014.

“'As obscure and unintelligible as the warbling of larks and linnets': Latent Agendas in C. P. E. Bach's C Minor Trio Wq. 161/1 (H.579)", Sensation and Sensibility at the Keyboard in the Late 18th Century, Music Conference and Concert Festival Celebrating the Tercentenary of C. P. E. Bach, Cornell University, US, October 2014.

“The Limits of Subjectivity? Self-Reflexive Manifestations in C. P. E. Bach's E Minor Keyboard Concerto Wq. 15", The Royal Musical Association's annual conference, University of Leeds, UK, September 2014.

“The Master of “Surface" and “Small Details"? Further Hermeneutical Challenges in C. P. E. Bach's Music", Keynote Address, The Israeli Music Theory Forum (under the auspices of the Israeli Musicological Society), The Open University of Israel, March 2014.

“Allegory, Irony and Deconstruction – Interpretation and Over-Interpretation of a Fugue", Music Colloquium, the Music Department at Cornell University, US, October 2013.

“Ironizing Allegory of Listening – Deconstructing Monelle", The International Conference on Music Semiotic in Memory of Raymond Monelle (ICMS-MRM), The University of Edinburgh, UK, October 2012.

“Lost in Translation, or fantasia – que me veux-tu?", The Israeli Musicological Society Conference, Israel, The Open University of Israel, July 2011.

“Tonal Expansions in Sonata Forms", Panel Organizer and Presenter. The Israeli Musicological Society summer meeting, The Levinsky-Wingate Academic College, July 2023.

“Theoretical Roundtable: Approaching Mozart's K. 516/I", Panel Co-Organizer and Participant. The Israeli Musicological Society summer meeting, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 2022.

“Revisiting the Foundations of Western Music Canon: History, Aesthetics & Experience", Co-Organizer and Chair (Jointly with Prof. Anne Holzmüller). The German- Israeli Frontiers of Humanities Symposia (GISFOH), November 2021 (Online).

“Corpus Studies and Formenlehre", Chair. “Corpus Research as a Means of Unlocking Musical Grammar – International Research Workshop", Tel-Aviv University, July 2019.

“A symposium honoring Dr. Benny Perl's retirement", Organizer and Chair. The Open University of Israel, May 2019.

  • A History of Western Music 1 (10732).​

  • A History of Western Music 2 (10733).

  • Harmonic Structures 2 (10743).

  • The Music of J. S. Bach (10251).

  • The Classical Style (10626).

  • Beethoven – Rebel and Romanticist (10934).

  • Sounds and Beyond: Critical Discourses of Music (10959)​.

  • 2021: History of Western Music 2.

  • 2017: Academic Writing for Majors in Musicology and Music Theory (0843-1001-01).

  • 2020-2021: Revision of the program in music studies.
  • 2019: “A History of Western Music 2” (10733): update supervisor and writer.

  • 2018: “Sounds and Beyond: Critical Discourses of Music” (10959): developer and writer.

  • 2013: “The Classical Style” (10626): academic reviewer.

  • 2011: “The Classical Style” (10626): update proposal.

  • 2010: “A History of Western Music 2” (10733): assistant advisor.

  • 2008: “A History of Western Music 1” (10732): assistant advisor.