Supplemental Information: Episode 1
Buxtehude Beats Bach? Qualifying a Canonic Claim
Scott Murphy (University of Kansas)
Release Date: Thursday, January 13, 2022
Producers:
David Thurmaier and Jennifer Beavers.
Music Credits:
SMT-Pod Theme music by Zhangcheng Lu;
Closing music "hnna" by David Voss.
Other original compositions by Anthony Esland, Jamie Allen, and Liam Hynes-Tawa.
Bio: Scott Murphy is a professor of music theory at the University of Kansas, where he has taught undergraduate- and graduate-level music theory for twenty years. He has received both the Emerging Scholar Award and the Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award from the Society for Music Theory, both for publications on the music of Brahms. Beyond Brahms, the subjects of his publications range from melodic expectation in the music of Penderecki to stretto in the music of J.S. Bach and Clara Schumann, and particularly include music for mainstream films and television programs of the past half century, about which he has written many essays for journals and books.
Keywords: Bach, Buxtehude, canon, historiography, firsts