Music History
Faculty Publication
Dr. April Prince published an article entitled, “"The Technological Priestess: The Piano Recital, Photography, and Clara Schumann,” in Nineteenth-Century Music Review.
Faculty Award
Dr. Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden received two nationally competitive awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities. An NEH Summer Stipend will support her research for a project entitled Stories of Music, Luxury, and Loss in the Age of Revolutions (1760s–1820s). The NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society will allow Dr. Geoffroy-Schwinden to carry out eight months of archival research at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. This research will culminate in a book about the musical and sonic world of the du Pont women's community from the French Revolution to the American Civil War.
Alumni Achievement
Jessica Stearns (PhD, Musicology, 2022) accepted a position as tenure-track assistant professor of music at Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 12:30pm
Union 332
Dr. Brian Wright will host an interview and Q&A with famed session bassist Chuck Rainey.
MHTE Lecture
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 4:00pm
Union 339
Dr. Tammy L. Kernodle, the University Distinguished Professor of Music at Miami University (Oxford, OH) will deliver a lecture entitled, "This Music is Black Music: Mary Lou Williams and the Re-framing of Jazz’s History in Civil Rights Era America." Dr. Kernodle's lecture is co-sponsored by the Division of Jazz Studies, the Graduate Association of Musicologists und Theorists, the UNT Music Library, and the UNT Women's & Gender Studies. It will take place in Union 339 with a reception to follow in the Spec's Charitable Courtyard.
Faculty Award
Dr. April Prince (Principal Lecturer, Music History) was awarded the 2022-23 UNT Foundation Distinguished Lecturer Award, which recognizes outstanding accomplishments in teaching and service, commitment to pedagogical innovation, support of student success; and the promotion of teaching excellence across campus.
Alumni Achievement
Kimary Fick (PhD, Musicology, 2015) published an article, “Systems of Power, Privilege, and Oppression: Towards a Social Justice Education Pedagogy for the Music History Curriculum,” in the Journal of Music History Pedagogy 12/1 (2022).
Alumni Achievement
Clare Carrasco (PhD, Musicology, 2016) published an articled entitled “Performing ‘Art for the People’: Politics, Spectatorship, and Schoenberg’s Music at the Berlin Volksbühne,” in Music & Letters.
Faculty Achievement
Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden collaborated on the research for and design of "Revolution à la Mode: Music and Fashion in Revolutionary France," an exhibition that opened on September 10th at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. It runs until March 5, 2023.
Faculty Achievement
Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden has been awarded a Hagley Museum & Library Exploratory Research Grant to support archival work for a project about women's musical collecting and collectivities in Atlantic Revolution.
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