The Lamont School of Music history faculty is
committed to training critical thinkers and writers in all aspects of music
history. The music history program offers courses for undergraduate students as
well as a master of arts in music history. Providing a full range of study in
Western music, our history courses include History of Opera, Orchestral
Literature, Historiography, History of Chamber Music, Approaches to Popular
Music, and Topics in World Music as well as composer-based courses from Bach to
Bartók. Courses in jazz history,
taught by our director of jazz studies, Malcolm Lynn Baker, are an optional
component of our program. Depending on a student's career goals, he or she may
choose to pursue a double major, combining performance and music history.
Antonia L. Banducci,
Ph. D., Associate Professor of Music History, teaches
both lower- and upper-division courses for music majors and participates in the
University of Denver's Core Curriculum program. Before Prof. Banducci joined the
Lamont faculty in 1994, she taught at Kenyon College, the University of Iowa,
the University of Southern California, and the St. Louis Conservatory of Music.
Specializing in French Baroque opera, she spent a year in doctoral research in
Paris as a Fulbright Scholar. Her dissertation, "Tancrède by
Antoine Danchet and André 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. Prof. Banducci has published [delete an article] in Early
Music and Notes, presented papers at American Musicological Society
meetings and written CD jacket notes for Harmonia Mundi.
A facsimile edition of André Campra's Tancrède, for which she
provided the introduction and appendices, is currently in press.
Jack Sheinbaum,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Music
History, teaches courses for undergraduate and graduate music majors, as well as
Foundations courses on musical topics for non-majors.
His primary research interests include Western art music of the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, popular music, and historiography.
Prof. Sheinbaum's dissertation,
"Timbre, Form, and Fin-de-Siècle Refractions in Mahler's Symphonies"
(Cornell University, 2002), has led to presentations at a number of conferences,
including the national meeting of the American Musicological Society.
His most recent publications are essays in Progressive Rock
Reconsidered, ed. Kevin Holm-Hudson (Routledge, 2002), and Rock Over the
Edge: Transformations in Popular
Music Culture, ed. Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, and Ben Saunders (Duke,
2002). Before joining the faculty
of the Lamont School of Music in 2000, he taught at Cornell University and the
University of Rochester.
Suzanne Moulton-Gertig, associate professor, received a bachelor of music education from James Madison University, and a master of library science and master of arts in musicology from Kent State University. Professor Gertig joined the University of Denver in 1985 and holds a joint faculty appointment with the Lamont School of Music and University Libraries. She is head of the music library at the University of Denver and teaches Introduction to Graduate Studies and harp. Professor Gertig has served as an editor of Ars Musica Denver and is currently editor of The American Harp Journal. She is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society and Beta Phi Mu International Library Science Honor Society. She serves as associate director of the Reznicek Society, which is dedicated to reviving the music of Emil N. von Reznicek and other forgotten late-19th century composers.
Richard Slavich, professor, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in history from Stanford University and received a bachelor and master of music from Indiana University. Director of the Cello and Chamber Music Programs, Professor Slavich teaches three upper divisional music history courses: History of Chamber Music, Beethoven, and Bach
Malcolm Lynn Baker, saxophone, is director of the jazz studies and commercial music department at the Lamont School of Music. Baker directs the Lamont Jazz Ensemble and coordinates the Jazz and Commercial Music program. He also teaches Jazz History and Jazz Improvisation and coaches jazz combos.
Todd Fair,
having earned a degree in piano/music education from Pennsylvania’s West
Chester University in 1974, Todd Fair enrolled at the Netherlands Carillon
School in the area where the carillon originated. In 1977 he was awarded
the Final Diploma and in 1979 he won a competition and became the first
non-Dutch carillonneur for the City of Amsterdam, which has employed
carillonneurs to perform at the prestigious Old Church since 1537. In 1984
he joined the faculty of the Netherlands Carillon school and from 1987-1990 he
taught at the Scandinavian Carillon School in Copenhagen. In 1980 Fair
gained playing awards in France and The Netherlands and in 1988 he received the
Berkeley Medal for distinguished service to the carillon art. He has
presented workshops and guest recitals in nearly all the countries having
carillons, including Australia and Japan. During the 1998-99 academic year
he served as acting carillonneur for the University of Michigan. During
this period the new carillon position at the University of Denver’s Lamont
School of Music was announced, to which Fair was appointed starting September 1,
1999.
Music Library
The Lamont School of Music Library at the University of Denver, located in
the School of Music's Trevorrow Hall, is a branch of the University library
system. In addition to
books, periodicals, and scores, the facility offers multimedia materials in a
variety of formats.
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