Historical Musicology at Columbia University

Historical Musicology Faculty

Susan L. Boynton

Professor of Music
Chair of the Historical Musicology Area Committee, 2012-13

Walter M. Frisch
H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert Von Tilzer Professor of Music
Director of Undergraduate Studies

 
Giuseppe Gerbino
Associate Professor of Music
Chair, Department of Music
 
Karen A. Henson
Assistant Professor of Music
 
Ellie M. Hisama
Professor of Music
On leave, 2012-13

George E. Lewis
Edwin H. Case Professor of Music
Vice-Chair, Department of Music

On leave, Spring 2013
  
Elaine R. Sisman
Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music
Past President, American Musicological Society
On leave, 2012-13
 

Post-doctoral Fellows in the Department with Historical Musicology Affiliation

Davide Ceriani
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Music

 

Programs offered:

MA, PhD

Online Resources
Music Humanities Online

More information on the Historical Musicology Area is coming soon.

 

News & Events in Historical Musicology

Giuseppe Gerbino wins Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

Congratulations to Giuseppe Gerbino, Associate Professor of Historical Musicology and Chair of the Department, on winning the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award. Established on a  donation from trustee Gerry Lenfest (Law '58), the Lenfest award recognizes faculty who demonstrate unusual merit in scholarship, university citizenship, and professional involvement. Professor Gerbino will receive an award of $25,000 per year for a three-year period.

Andrew Eggert Appointed Director of Opera Studies at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University

The Department of Music congratulates historical musicology PhD candidate Andrew Eggert, who has been appointed Director of Opera Studies at the Chicago College of Performing Arts.
 
Andrew's PhD dissertation, sponsored by Prof. Gerbino,  investigates the staging of the operas of Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676). Research in the archives of Venice has been funded by a grant from the Delmas Foundation.
 
Andrew has worked as opera director with such companies as Chicago Opera Theater, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Omaha, and Gotham Chamber Opera, as well as dramaturg with New York City Opera.  He was selected as a winner of Opera America's Director-Designer Showcase and has worked with the young artist programs of Glimmerglass Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera.

Prof. Kevin Fellezs Co-Winner of 2012 Woody Guthrie Book Award from IASPM (US)

The Department of Music warmly congratulates Professor Kevin Fellezs, whose book, Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk and the Creation of Fusion, is this year's Co-Winner of the International Association For Popular Music's Woody Guthrie Book Award. In making the award, The awards committee observed, in making the award,  it considers Birds of Fire "the most accomplished monograph of the contenders. It is an engaging, well researched and argued interdisciplinary study of a long vilified musical movement . . . [and] a crucial contribution to jazz studies and rock studies, but most importantly it de-stablilizes the concept of genre itself."

 

Prof. Boynton wins Stevenson Award from the AMS for Silent Music (OUP, 2011)

Professor Susan Boynton was presented with the 2012 Robert M. Stevenson award from the American Musicological Society for her book Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain (Oxford University Press, 2011). The Stevenson Award recognizes outstanding scholarship on music composed, performed, created, collected, belonging to, or descended from the musical cultures of Spain, Portugal, and all Latin American areas in which Spanish and Portuguese are spoken.

http://www.ams-net.org/neworleans/awards.php

Daniel Callahan Appointed Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at U. Chicago!

The Department of Music congratulates Daniel Callahan, a  PhD candidate in Historical Musicology at Columbia, who has been appointed as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Music at The University of Chicago.  Mr. Callahan will defend his dissertation, entitled  "The Dancer from the Music: Men, Modern Dance, and Choreomusicalities on the U.S. Stage, 1910-2010," this summer.  The dissertation, advised by Prof. Karen Henson,  combines  work in dance, film, music, and  gesture that functions at the disciplinary interstices of musicology, cinema and media studies, theater and performance studies, and gender studies.  In the dissertation, Mr. Callahan engages in choreomusical analysis, sound reconstruction for dance film, and archival and oral history, among other methods. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Selma Jeanne Cohen Award from the Society of Dance History (2011).

Mr. Callahan has worked on Merce Cunningham, Ted Shawn, and Mark Morris, and has also written about Arnold Schoenberg, Tina Turner, and Leonard Bernstein (the subject of his most current research).

As a  Mellon Fellow in Music at Chicago, Mr. Callahan will devote himself to intensive research and writing and will teach two courses per year.  His primary appointment will be in Music,  but he will also be teaching courses cross-listed in such other units as Theater and Performance Studies and will be collaborating at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry and teaching at the Logan Center for the Arts.

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