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PhD Music Composition Princeton University
Masters Music Composition Princeton University
Bachelors Music Brown University

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According to Wikipedia, Paul Lansky is an American composer. Biography Paul Lansky is an American composer. He was educated at Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Queens College and Princeton University, studying with George Perle and Milton Babbitt, among others. He received his Ph.D. in music from Princeton in 1973. His doctoral dissertation consisted of an essay titled "Affine music" and a composition of string quartet. Originally intending to pursue a career in performance, during 1965–66 he played the French horn with the Dorian Wind Quintet. He left the group to attend graduate school. From 1969 until his retirement in 2014 he was on the faculty at Princeton University where he retired as the William Shubael Conant Professor of Music. He chaired the Department from 1991–2000. In 2000 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States. In 2009–10 he was the inaugural composer in residence with the Alabama Symphony. In 2016 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fromm Foundation and the Koussevitsky Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and Chamber Music America, among others.

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Paul Lansky's Published Works

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The Importance of Being Digital (2013) (199)
Phrase Rhythm in Tonal Music (1989) (72)
Towards Automatic Musical Instrument Timbre Recognition (2010) (39)
Synthesis of timbral families by warped linear prediction (1981) (29)
A View from the Bus: When Machines Make Music (1990) (19)
Compositional applications of linear predictive coding (1989) (14)
The Architecture and Musical Logic of Cmix (1990) (10)
Possibility of Hypnosis as an Aid in Cancer Therapy (2015) (5)
More Than Idle Chatter (1995) (5)
Fanfares for the Common Tone (1976) (4)
Experimental Music in Schools@@@Sound and Silence (1971) (4)
EIN: A Signal Processing Scratchpad (1995) (3)
An Interview with Paul Lansky (1996) (3)
Interview with Paul Lansky (1983) (2)
Current Directions in Computer Music Research (1991) (1)
It's about Time: Some Next Perspectives (Part One) (1989) (1)
Reflections on Spent Time (2009) (1)
Some Thoughts on a Song or Two (2011) (1)
Reinventing the violin [and] machine language (original composition) (1999) (1)
Dissonance theory of sound objects (2007) (1)
Pitch-Class Consciousness (1975) (1)
Musikmaschinen (1976) (0)
WARPED LINEAR PREDICTIONt (1981) (0)
WARPED LINEAR PREDICTIONt (1981) (0)
Musical Dreams and Musical Reality (1991) (0)
Reflections on Spent Time (abstract; full paper is on page 561) (2009) (0)
Dance Suite for Piano@@@First Piano Sonata, op. 3@@@Fantasies and Impromptus for Solo Piano (1983) (0)
Da Capo Chamber Players (2010) (0)
Mathematical Biosciences - Special Issue on BIOCOMP2005 (2007) (0)
String Quartet No. 4, 1973 (1978) (0)
Inner Voices (CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 5) (1992) (0)
Lessons with George Perle (2016) (0)
Imagination and Linear Prediction (1980) (0)
Piano Works@@@Serenade, no. 3, for Piano and Chamber Orchestra@@@Ballade for Piano@@@Concertino for Piano, Winds, and Timpani (1988) (0)
Modal fantasy : for piano (1975) (0)
Three moves : for marimba (1999) (0)
Idle fancies : six preludes for solo marimba with small percussion set (2008) (0)
Crossing the Divide (2004) (0)
Paul Lansky. Conversation Pieces (2004) (0)
ICMC 2009 Keynote Address (2020) (0)
SYNTHESIS OF TINBRAL FAMILIES BY WARPED LINEAR PREDICTIONt (2002) (0)
Moments Musicaux for Roger Sessions in Celebration of His Plus 80 Years (1978) (0)
The Virtuoso in the Computer Age -- I (CDCM Volume 10) (1993) (0)
The Music of Claudio Spies (1972) (0)
Linear Prediction: The Hard, But Interesting Way to Do Things (1987) (0)
Edward Toner Cone (2007) (0)
My Radiohead Adventure (2012) (0)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: REFLECTIONS ON SPENT TIME (2011) (0)
Biographical memoirs / Edward Torner Cone (2007) (0)

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