Antonia L. Banducci, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Music History and Chair of the Music History Department teaches both lower- and upper-division courses for music majors and participates in the University of Denver's General Education program.
Focus: Specializing in French Baroque opera, she spent a year in doctoral research in Paris as a Fulbright Scholar.
Publications:
Professor Banducci has published in Early Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, the Journal for Seventeenth-Century Music, and Notes. She has presented papers at both national and international musicology meetings and has written CD jacket notes for Harmonia Mundi. A facsimile edition of Andre Campra's Tancrede, for which she provided the introduction and appendices, is currently in press.
Her dissertation, "Tancrede by Antoine Danchet and Andre Campra: Performance History and Reception (1702-1764)," (Washington University, St. Louis, 1990) received the National Opera Association's First Biennial Award for Best Dissertation on an operatic topic.
Suzanne Moulton- Gertig
Suzanne Moulton-Gertig received a bachelor of music education magna cum laude from James Madison University, a master of library science, and a master of arts in musicology, both from Kent State University. Professor Gertig joined the faculty of the University of Denver in 1985. She is the head of the music library, teaches Introduction to Graduate Studies, topics in music history and studio harp. Moulton-Gertig has served as editor of Ars Musica Denver and The American Harp Journal.
Office: Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Room 440A
Sarah Morelli, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, specializes in North Indian classical music and dance. Active as both a scholar and performer, she teaches courses on music-cultures from around the world and leads a North Indian classical performance ensemble. Prof. Morelli has studied the performing arts of India since 1992; she is a student of the legendary Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (vocal music and the sarod) and a disciple of the renowned Kathak dance master, Pandit Chitresh Das. Since 2000 she has performed as a Kathak dancer and as a musical accompanist for Pandit Das and the Chitresh Das Dance Company throughout India, Europe and the United States.
Office: Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Room 301
Her doctoral dissertation, "From Calcutta to California: Negotiations of Movement and Meaning in Kathak Dance" (Harvard University, 2007), focuses on Pandit Das's contributions to Kathak dance, examining processes of culture-change in artistic diasporas. These issues also inform her earlier work on hip hop and youth culture in South Korea. Prof. Morelli regularly presents her work at national and international scholarly meetings and is currently the ethnomusicology representative for the Rocky Mountain chapter of the College Music Society.
Jack Sheinbaum Ph. D.
Jack Sheinbaum, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music History, teaches courses for undergraduate and graduate music majors, as well as courses on musical topics for non-majors.
Office: Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Room 314
Before joining the faculty of the Lamont School of Music in 2000, he taught at Cornell University and the University of Rochester.
Interests:
His primary research interests include Western art music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, popular music, and historiography. Professor Sheinbaum is currently co-chair of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the American Musicological Society, and the musicology representative of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the College Music Society.
Publications:
Recent publications include "The Artifice of the 'Natural': Mahler's Orchestration at Cadences," Journal of Musicological Research 24/2 (2005); "Adorno's Mahler and the Timbral Outsider," Journal of the Royal Musical Association (in press, 2006); and essays in Progressive Rock Reconsidered, ed. Kevin Holm-Husdon (Routledge, 2002), and Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture, ed. Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, and Ben Saunders (Duke, 2002).
