Yonatan Malin
Music • Jewish Studies
Yonatan.Malin@colorado.edu
303.492.6150

Office: Imig Music Building N145
Office Hours: on sabbatical Fall 2024

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Associate Professor of Music Theory and Jewish Studies

Prof. Malin:

Yonatan听Malin鈥檚 research areas include klezmer, Jewish liturgical music, cantillation, and German Lieder. He teaches Music in Jewish Cultures every other year. In the spring of 2018, he participated in the inaugural Archive Transformed Residency together with klezmer fiddler Alicia Svigals, and he has participated in and contributed to workshops at Yiddish New York and KlezKanada. Professor听Malin听was a panelist on the first Embodied Judaism Symposium honoring Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. He also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the College of Music, and his book听Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied听was published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. He served as editor of听Music Theory Online, a journal of the Society for Music Theory, from 2011 to 2014.听

Areas of Research Related to Jewish Studies:

Jewish liturgical music, klezmer music, analytical approaches to world music, music and text, rhythm and meter.

Courses Taught:

  • Music in Jewish Cultures (JWST/MUSC 4122)
  • Music Theory I and II (MUSC 1101-1111)
  • Tonal Analysis (MUSC 4061)
  • Advanced Tonal Analysis (MUSC 5061)
  • Analytical Approaches to World Music (MUSC 5151/6801)
  • Schubert Seminar (MUSC 6801)

Recent Publications:

鈥淧oetic Endings and Song Endings in 鈥楪ute Nacht鈥� and 鈥楧er Leiermann鈥� from Schubert鈥檚 Winterreise.鈥� In听Music, A Connected Art. A Festschrift for J眉rgen Thym on His 80th Birthday, edited by Ulrich J. Blomann, Dabid B. Levy, Ralph P. Locke, and Frieder Reininghaus, 117鈥�26. Baden-Baden: Verlag Valentin Koerner, 2023.

鈥淐ommunity Based Music Information Retrieval: A Case Study of Digitizing Historical Klezmer Manuscripts from Kyiv.鈥� Co-authored with Christina Crowder, Clara Byom, and Daniel Shanahan.听Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval听5/1 (2022): 208鈥�21.听.

鈥淢odulating Couplets in Fanny Hensel鈥檚 Lieder.鈥� In听The Songs of Fanny Hensel, edited by Stephen Rodgers, 171鈥�91. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

鈥淓thnography and Analysis in the Study of Jewish Music.鈥澨�Analytical Approaches to World Music听7/2 (2019).听.

鈥淚ntroduction to Special Issue on Ethnography and Analysis.鈥澨�Analytical Approaches to World Music听7/2 (2019).
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,听Yuval Online听(2016)听

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