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Penn Ph.D.s in History, Theory,

& Ethnomusicology

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degree date name dissertation current affiliation
2012

Lauren Jennings
laurenje@sas.upenn.edu

Tracing Voices: Song as Literature in
Late Medieval Italy
University of Southern California, Post-doctoral fellow.
2012

Ian MacMillen
imacmill@oberlin.edu

Tambura Music Across Geographic and
Ethnic Divides in Croatia and Its Intimates
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Studies and OCREECAS Postdoctoral Fellow at Oberlin College.
2012 Matthew Valnes
valnes@sas.upenn.edu
"We Getting Funky on the Scene":
Improvisation and Live Performance in Funk Music
Independent Scholar
2012 Emily Zazulia
ecz6@pitt.edu
Verbal Canons and Notational Complexity
in Fifteenth-Century Music
Assistant Professor, Universiyt of Pittsburgh
2011 Jennifer Kyker
Jennifer.kyker@rochester.edu
A Person Among Others: Music, Morality,
and Postcolonial Politics in the Songs of Oliver Mtukudzi
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, joint appointment at Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester.
2011

Darien Lamen
darien.lamen@gmail.com

Mobilizing Regionalism at Land's End:
Popular Electric Guitar Music and the Caribbeanization of
the Brazilian Amazon
University of Wisconsin Madison, Mellon New Faculty Fellow Assistant Professor
2011 Diedre Loughridge
dloughridge@berkeley.edu
Technologies of the Invisible: Optical
Instruments and Musical Romanticism
Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow of the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley
2011

John Meyers
johnpaulmeyers@gmail.com

 

"Rock and Roll Never Forgets": Memory,
History, and Performance in the Tribute Band Scene
Independent Scholar
2011

Elizabeth Mellon
elizabeth-mellon@uiowa.edu

Inscribing Sound: Medieval Remakings of
Boethius's De Institutione Musica
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa
2011 Peter Mondelli
mondelli@sas.upenn.edu
From Voice to Text: Parisian Opera and
Material Culture, 1790-1870
University of North Texas, Assistant Professor
2011

Andayai Qaasim
qaasim@gmail.com

We Come from Mars: Negotiating Metis
Identity in Marseillais Hip-Hop
independent Scholar
2010 Hilary Baker
hxb17@psu.edu
Stage(d) Communities: Representations of New York, Sexuality, and (Auto)Biography in Contemporary, American Musical Theater .
Lecturer, Penn State Erie
2010 Roger Grant
grantrm@umich.edu
Four Hundred Years of Meter: Theories, Ideologies, and Technologies of Musical Periodicity Since
1611.
Assistant Professor of Music and Fellow, Society of Fellows, University of Michigan
2010 Anna Grau
annagrau@sas.upenn.edu
Representation and Resistance: Female Vocality in Thireenth-Century France. Lecturer,
DePaul University
2010 Gavin Steingo
gsteingo@gmail.com
After Apartheid: Kwaito Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom. University of Pittsburgh, Assistant Professor
2008 Charles Carson
ccarson@udel.edu
"Broad and Market: At the Crossroads of Race and Class in Philadelphia jazz, 1956-1980 Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin
2008 Catherine Chamblee
"Cognitive processes of Improvisation: Performers and Listeners in the Organ Tradition and Contemporary Gospel Styles Independent Scholar
2008

Monique Ingalls
mmi23@cam.ac.uk

" Awesome in this Place": Sound, Space, and Identity in Contemporary North American Evangelical Worship

Postdoctoral Fellow in Popular Music & Culture, University of Cambridge


 

2008 Michael Masci
masci@geneseo.edu
"The Deduction of the Voice: toward a Non-cognitive Account of Music Judgment

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
SUNY Geneseo

2008 Jennifer Noakes
jennie.noakes@gmail.com
"From the Top of the Mountain": Traditional Music and the Politics of Place in the Central Appalachian Coalfields University of Pennsylvania
Critical Writing Fellow
2008 Gregory Robinson
grobins8@gmu.edu
"Entre Gauchos No Hay Fronteras": Traditional Music and the Post-Frontier in Chilean Patagonia George Mason University
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
2008 Jennifer Ryan
jryan6@indstate.edu
"Can I Get a Witness?: Soul and Salvation in Memphis Music Indiana State Univeristy,
Assistant Professor,
Department of African and African American Studies
2008 Katherine Thomas
Hollywood Blackface and its Descendents: Negotiating Race and Difference through Performance of the Other in Hollywood Musicals Independent Scholar
2007 Laura Silverberg
lsilverberg@wisc.edu
"The East German Sonderweg to Modern Music, 1956-1971." Associate Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2007

Jennifer Saltzstein
jennifersaltzstein@ou.edu

"Wandering voices: Refrain Citation in Thirteenth-Century French Music and Poetry." Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma
2007 Lucy Shanno
lucyminettshanno@hotmail.com
Dissertation Title: Composing with Recording in Mind: An
Analytic Approach
Independent Scholar
2006 Marie Jorritsma
marie.jorritsma@wits.ac.az
"Sonic Spaces: Inscribing “Coloured” Voices in the Karoo, South Africa" Senior Lecturer, University of Witwatersrand
2006 Ruth Rosenberg
rrose76@uic.edu
"Eloquence and Encounter: Corsican Female Lament in Performance and Imagination"

Assistant Professor,
College of Architecture and the Arts

 

2006 Party, Daniel
dparty@uc.cl
"Bolero and Balada As The Guilty Pleasures Of Latin American Pop" Associate Professor, Universidad Católica de Chile
2005 Patricia Schmidt
schmidtpl@hotmail.com
"Thinking Inside the Box: In Search of Music-Video Culture" Assistant Professor, University of Surrey
2004
"To Bebop or to Be Pop: Sarah Vaughan and the Politics of Crossover" Editor, Earshot Jazz ,
Seattle, WA
2004
Richard Mook
richard.mook@asu.edu
"The Sounds of Liberty: Nostalgia, Masculinity, and Whiteness in Philadelphia Barbershop, 1900-2003" Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
2004
Hilary Moore
hilarym@sas.upenn.edu
"British Jazz Voices: Crossing Borders of Race, Nation, and Class" Assistant Professor, Royal College of Music
2004
Cha, Jee-Weon
chajee@grinnell.edu
"Music, Language, and the Tone Poem: Interpreting Richard Strauss's Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24" Associate Professor, Grinnell College
2004

Whang, Carol

"Re-Defining Relationships: Modeling in Four Imitation Masses by Palestrina" Independent Scholar
2003 Macklem, Mary
macklem@gwu.edu
"Reforming Opera and Its Public in Early Modern Venice" Adjunct Professor,George Washington University
2003
Perella, Lisa
"Mythologies of Musical Persuasion: The Power and Politics of Song in France, 1653-1673" Independent Scholar
2002
Morgan, Mary Kathleen
tommo@mindspring.com
"The Three-Voice Chansons of Johannes Ockeghem and Antoine Busnoys: Approaches to Form, Process, and Musical Structure in the Chanson ca. 1470"
Independent Scholar
2002
Bloechl, Olivia
bloechl@humnet.ucla.edu
"Sounding Savagery: Native American Song and the Frontiers of Early Modern Music"
Assistant Professor, UCLA
2001
Carter Vosen, Elyse
evosen@css.edu
"Seventh-Fire Children: Gender, Embodiment, and Musical Performances of Decolonization by Anishinaabe Youth"
Associate Professor, The College of St. Scholastica
2001
Kemler, Deanna
"Music and Embodied Imagining: Metaphor and Metonymy in Western Art Music"
Independent Scholar
2001
Lohman, Laura
l.a.lohman@att.net
"Orchestral Extraliteracy and the Foundations of American Musicology"

Associate Professor, California State University Fullerton. Laura Lohman's book forthcoming http://www.upne.com/0-8195-7071-0.html


2001
Montague, Eugene
eugene_m@gwu.edu
"Moving to Music: A Theory of Sound and Physical Action" Assistant Professor, George Washington University

2000

Theresa, Rose
rose.theresa@title9music.org

"Spectacle and Enchantment: Envisioning Opera in Late Nineteenth-century Paris"

Visiting Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Professor of Music History, San Francisco Conservatory of Music

2000

Rozin, Alexander
arozin@wcupa.edu

"The Intensity of Musical Affect: A Model of Experience and Memory"

Associate Professor, West Chester University

2000

Zukowski, Sheryl

"Creating the Modernist Self: Gustav Mahler and Fin-de-siècle Performance"

Independent Scholar

2000

Butterfield, Matthew
matthew.butterfield@fandm.edu

"Jazz analysis and the production of musical community: a situational perspective "

Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall College

1999

Buenconsejo, José

"Songs and gifts at the colonial frontier: the aesthetics of Agusan Manobo spirit-possession ritual, Philippines"

Dean of the College of Music, University of the Philippines, Diliman

1999

Hoyt, Peter

"The 'False Recapitulation' and the Conventions of Sonata Form"

Assistant Professor,University of South Carolina, Columbia

1999

Kang, YouYoung
ykang@scrippscollege.edu

"The Art of Counterpoint in Stile nuovo Sacred Polyphony in seventeenth-century Italy"

Associate Professor, Scripps College

1999

Lee-De Amici, Beth
blee1891@yahoo.com

"Ad sustentacionem fidei christiani: sacred music and ceremony in medieval Oxford"

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

1998

Clark, Maribeth
mclark@ncf.edu

"Understanding French Grand Opera Through Dance "

Associate Professor and Associate Provost, New College of Florida

1998

Gordon, Bonnie
bsg6v@virginia.edu

"Singing the female body: Monteverdi, subjectivity, sensuality"

Associate Professor,
University of Virginia

1997

Cramer, Alfred
acramer@pomona.edu

"Music for the future : sounds of early-twentieth-century psychology and language in works of Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg, 1908 to the first world war"

Associate Professor, Pomona College

1996

Buhler, James
jbuhler@mail.utexas.edu
http://www.utexas.edu/

"Informal Music Analysis: A Critique of Formalism, Semiology, and Narratology as Discourses on Music"

Associate Professor, University of Texas

1996

Caballero, Carlo
carlo.caballero@colorado.edu

"Fauré and French Musical Aesthetics"

Associate Professor, University of Colorado

1996

Taggart, Bruce
taggartb@msu.edu

"Rhythmic Perception and Conception: A Study of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Interaction in Rhythm and Meter"

Associate Director, Michigan State University Community Music School

1996

Whitehead, Paul
whitehead@itu.edu.tr

"Austro-German Printed Sources of Instrumental Ensemble Music, 1630 to 1700"

Assistant Professor, Istanbul Technical University

1995

Korstvedt, Benjamin
bkorstvedt@clarku.edu

"The First Edition of Anton Bruckner's Fourth Symphony: Authorship, Production and Reception"

Assistant Professor, Clark College

1995

Pederson, Sanna
spederson@ou.edu

"Enlightened and Romantic German Music Criticism, 1800-1850"

Marvin C. Pitman Professo of Music, University of Oklahoma, Norman

1992

Sipe, Thomas

"Interpreting Beethoven: History, Aesthetics, and Critical Reception"

Independent Scholar

1992

Solvik, Morten

"Culture and the Creative Imagination: The Genesis of Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony"

Hochschule Fuer Musik, Vienna

1991

Brobeck, John
brobeck@u.arizona.edu

"The Motet at the Court of Francis I"

Professor, University of California, Irvine

1991

Eitan, Zohar
zeitan@post.tau.ac.il

"Style and Gesture: A Study of Melodic Peaks"

Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University

1990

Holzer, Robert
robert.holzer@yale.edu

"Music and Poetry in seventeenth-century Rome: Settings of the Canzonetta and Cantata texts of Francesco Balducci, Domenico Benigni, Francesco Melosio, and Antonio Abati"

Associate Professor, Yale University

1990

London, Justin M.
jlondon@carleton.edu
http://www.acad.carleton.edu/

"The Interaction Between Meter and Phrase Beginnings and Endings in the Mature Instrumental Music of Haydn and Mozart"

Professor, Carleton College

1989

Adams, Nancy

"Elektra as Opera and Drama"

Librarian, Eastern Baptist Seminary

1989

Frigyesi, Judit
frigyesi@mail.biu.ac.il

"Béla Bartók and Hungarian Nationalism: The Development of Bartok's Social and Political Ideas at the turn of the Century (1899-1903)"

Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University

1989

Laki, Peter
plaki@clevelandorchestra.com

"Madrigals of Giambattista Marino and their Settings for Solo Voice (1602-1640)"

Program Annotator, Cleveland Orchestra

1988

Carpenter, Ellon
ellon.carpenter@asu.Edu

"Theory of Music in Russia and the Soviet Union, ca. 1650-1950"

Associate Professor, Arizona State University

1988

Fromson, Michele Yvonne

"Imitation and Innovation in the North-Italian motet, 1560-1605"

Independent Scholar

1988

Girdham, Jane
jgirdham@svsu.edu

"Stephen Storace and the English Opera Tradition of the late eighteenth century"

Associate Professor, Saginaw Valley State University

1987

Bullard, Beth
bbullard@gmu.edu
bullardb@dickinson.edu

"Musical Instruments in the early sixteenth century: A Translation and Historical Study of Sebastian Virdung's Musica Getutscht (Basel, 1511)"

Assistant Professor, George Mason University

1987

Feldman, Martha
rore@uchicago.edu

"Venice and the Madrigal in the mid-sixteenth century"

Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Music
and the Humanities in the College Chair, Department of Music

1987

Freedman, Richard
rfreedma@haverford.edu
http://www.haverford.edu/

"Music, Musicians, and the House of Lorraine during the first half of the sixteenth century "

Professor, Haverford College

1986

Taricani, JoAnn
taricani@u.washington.edu

"Chansonnier from a Library in Renaissance Augsburg: Munich, Bayerische, Staatsbibliothek, Mus. Ms. 1508"

Associate Professor, University of Washington

1986

Winters, Thomas
twinters@wcupa.edu

"Additive and Repetitive Techniques in the Experimental Works of Charles Ives"

Associate Professor, West Chester University

1985

Balthazar, Scott
sbalthazar@wcupa.edu

"Evolving Conventions in Italian Serious Opera: Scene Structure in the Works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi, 1810-1850"

Associate Professor, West Chester University

1985

Fisher, Stephen
DocSFisher@aol.com

"Haydn's Overtures and their Adaptations as Concert Orchestral Works"

Independent Scholar

1984

Brodbeck, David
dbrod@uci.edu

"Brahms as Editor and Composer: His Two Editions of Landler by Schubert and His First Two Cycles of Waltzes, Opera 39 and 52"

Professor, University of California Irvine

1984

Gjerdingen, Robert
r-gjerdingen@northwestern.edu

"Musical Schema: Structure and Style Change, 1720-1900"

Associate Professor, Northwestern University

1984

Platoff, John
john.platoff@trincoll.edu

"Music and Drama in the Opera Buffa Finale: Mozart and his Contemporaries in Vienna, 1781-1790"

Professor, Trinity College

1983

Hopkins, Robert
rhopkins@hamilton.edu

"Secondary parameters and closure in the symphonies of Gustav Mahler"

Associate Professor, Hamilton College

1980

Ayyangar, Ranganayaki

"Gamaka and Vadanabheda, a study of Somanatha's ragavibodha in historical and practical context"

Reader in Musicology (Retired), Banaras Hindu University

1979

Hoyt, Reed
rhoyt@sarah.albany.edu

"Bassline in tonal music: its relationship to melodic and harmonic structure"

Associate Professor, State University of New York at Albany

1979

Stempel, Larry

"Diabolus-in-symmetry: rotational uniformity in the harmony of 19th- and 20th-century music"

Professor, Fordham University

1979

Stern, Marion Goertzel

"Keyboard quartets and quintets published in London, 1756-75: a contribution to the history of chamber music with obbligato keyboard"

 

1978

Langford, Jeffrey
jlangford@msmnyc.edu
msmberlioz@aol.com

"Operas of Hector Berlioz: Their Relationship to the French Operatic Tradition of the Early Nineteenth Century"

Professor, Manhattan School of Music

1977

Murphy, Joseph

"Communions of the Old Roman Chant"

 

1976

Bellak, Richard Charles

"Compositional technique in the transcriptions of Franz Liszt"

 

1976

Leininger, George W.

"Odes of Henry Purcell: A Stylistic study"

 

1974

Adams, Courtney S.

"Three-part chanson during the sixteenth century: Changes in its style and importance"

deceased

1974

Diehl, George K.

"Partbooks of a renaissance merchant: Cambrai: Bibliotheque municipale, MSS125-128"

Emeritus Professor, LaSalle University

1972

Bloom, Peter
pbloom@smith.edu

"Francois-Joseph Fetis and the Revue musicale (1827-1835)"

Professor, Smith College

1971

Hirshberg, Jehoash
msmus@panda.mscc.huji.ac.il

"Music of the Late Fourteenth-Century: A Study in Musical Style"

Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1968

Brennan, Allen John.

"Music in the Catholic Church in Philadelphia, 1800-1835"

 

1966

McDermott, Joseph Vincent

"Articulation of musical space in the twentieth century"

 

1966

Suderburg, Robert

"Tonal cohesion in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music"

 

1963

Meyer, Eve Rose

"Florian Gassmann and the Viennese divertimento"

Emeritus Professor, Temple University

1959

Flindell, Edwin Frederick

"Achievements of the Notre Dame school"

 

1959

Rotondi, Joseph

"Literary and musical aspects of Roman opera, 1600-1650"

 

1958

Eldridge, Muriel Tilden

"Thomas Campion, 1567-1620: his poetry and music, a study in relationships"

 

1958

Morgan, Catharine

"Bach fugue, a study in antecedents"

 

1957

Colucci, Matthew

"Comparative study of contemporary musical theories in selected writings of Piston, Krenek and Hindemith"

Emeritus Professor, Temple University

1955

Klitenic, Zelik

"Clavecin works of Jean-Philippe Rameau"

 

1950

Bethel, Walter LeRoy

"Burgundian chanson (1400-1477), A study in musical style"

 

1948

Scott, Jesse Lewis

"Developing a high school program of music"

 

1944

Michell, Joyce

"Symbolism in music and poetry "

 

1940

Gerson, Robert A.

"Music in Philadelphia"

 
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