Recent activites of
Divisional Faculty Members
(2003–present)

Musicology

Melinda Boyd
Recent Publications

“Re-Orienting the Vision: Ethnicity and Authenticity from Suzuki to Comrade Chin,” in A Vision of the Orient: Texts, Intertexts and Contexts of Madam Butterfly, edited by Jonathan Wisenthal, Sherrill Grace, Melinda Boyd, Bryan McIlroy and Vera Micznik (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2006).

Recent Presentations

“Have You Met Miss Jones?  The Politics of Color in Oscar Hammerstein’s Carmen Jones,” presented at the Society for American Music national meeting (Mar. 2006).


Norbert Dubowy
Recent Publications
“Identity and Poetic Style: The Case of Rosmene by Giuseppe Domenico de Totis,” in Music as Social and Cultural Practice: Essays in Honour of Reinhard Strohm, ed. Melania Bucciarelli and Berta Joncus (Boydell and Brewer; in press).
“Introduction,” in Italian Opera in Central Europe, vol. 1: "Institutions and Ceremonies," ed. Melania Bucciarelli, Norbert Dubowy, and Reinhard Strohm (Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, 2006), 1-7.
“Joseph Weigl und Johann Simon Mayr: Beobachtungen zur Opernpraxis um 1800,” in Johann Simon Mayr und Wien, edited by Franz Hauk and Iris Winkler (Munich: Katzbichler, 2005), 180-208.
“'un riso bizzaro dell'estro poetico' - Il Flavio Cuniberto (1681) di Matteo Noris e il dramma per musica del secondo Seicento,” Musica e storia 12/2 (2004), 401–24.
“Opernpraxis im Königreich Neapel am Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts, ” in Der Fürst und sein Volk: Herrscherlob und Herrscherkritik in den Habsburger Ländern der frühen Neuzeit, Conference report, Saarbrücken, June 2002, ed. by Pierre Béhar and Herbert Schneider (St. Ingbert, 2004), 465–80.
Recent Presentations
“Alessandro Scarlatti compositore d'opera: il caso di Mitridate Eupatore”. Lecture (University of Milan/Italy, June 2005).
“Pisendels Sinfonia und der Orchestersatz," paper presented at the conference Johann Georg Pisendel und Dresden (University of Dresden, May 2005).
“Die Oboe und das Opernorchester um 1700," lecture at Institut für Musikwissenschaft, University of Bern (Switzerland), May 2005.
“Cesarini-Caldara-Scarlatti: Giunio Bruto," seminar on "Orchestra and Orchestral Practice," University Mozarteum, Salzburg (Austria), Dec. 2004.
“Sullo sviluppo dell'opera a Roma nel XVIII secolo," paper presented at the conference "Rom - Die Ewige Stadt im Brennpunkt der aktuellen musikwissenschaftlichen Forschung," Deutsches Historisches Institut, Rome (Italy), Sept. 2004.
“Identity and Poetic Style," paper presented at the round table “Italian Opera 1640-1710 as an Expression of Regional and Political Identities," Eleventh Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Manchester (UK), July 2004.
“Cosa ci raccontano le partiture? Osservazioni sul rapporto edizione-esecuzione a proposito del repertorio d'opera tra Sei e Settecento," paper presented at the "IV Seminar on Philology in Music," Facoltà di musicologia e filologia musicale, Cremona (Italy), May 2004.
“Ars combinatoria: Von der Kunst des Librettoschreibens im 17. Jahrhundert," lecture, Da Ponte-Institut and Albertina, Vienna (Austria), Jan. 2004.
Jeongwon Joe
Recent Publications
Opera as Soundtrack (monograph in progress).
Wagner and Cinema (a collection-in-progress, co-edited with Sander Gilman).
“Is Cinema's Anxiety Opera's Envy?” essay accepted for Music Theatre: Performance, Experience and Context, ed. Michael Eigtved and Clemens Risi.
“Teaching Film Music: Interdisciplinary Approaches,” essay accepted for Teaching Film, ed. Lucy Fischer and Patrice Petro.
Farinell, Il Castrato: Two Voices, Two Bodies,” The Journal of British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 28/3 (Jan. 2006): 517-30.
“Reconsidering Amadeus: Mozart as Film Music,” in Changing Tunes: The Use of Pre-existing Music in Film, ed. Phil Powie and Robynn Stilwell (Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2006): 57-73.
"The Cocktail Siren in David Lynch's Blue Velvet," in Music of the Sirens, ed. Linda Austern and Inna Naroditskaya (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2006): 353-77.
"Korean Opera-film Chunhyang and the Trans-cultural Politics of the Voice," Muzikologija: Journal of the Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 5 (May 2005): 181-93.
Recent Presentations
“A Passage to Korea: Western Opera's Diaspora During the Japanese Occupation of Korea,” paper to be presented at the 18th Congress of the International Musicological Society (July 2007).
Musica Mundana: Beyond Boethius,” paper to be presented at the 2006 convention of the Modern Language Association (Dec. 2006).
“Sight and Sound of the Operatic Voice,” paper presented at the joint colloquium of University of Iowa's Opera Studies Program and Sound Research Seminar (Sept. 2006).
“The Glory (????) of the Human Voice: Florence Foster Jenkins,” paper presented at the Diva Symposium (Univ. of Leeds, England, July 2006).
“Operatic Voice on Screen,” paper presented at the International Conference on “Song, Stage, and Screen: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Musical Stage” (Univ. of Portsmouth, England, April 2006).
“Opera as the Lost Speech in Wong Kar-Wai's 2046,” paper presented at the seminar series of the University of Sussex's Center for Research on Opera and Music Theatre (April 2006).
“Film Divas: Gendered Dichotomy Between Vocal and Instrumental Music,” paper presented at the symposium “The Intersections of Opera and Cinema” (Rice Univ., March 2006).
“Gerárd Corbiau's Farinelli: A Virile Castrato?” paper presented at the musicology colloquium (Northwestern Univ., Oct. 2005).
"Has Cinema's Anxiety Become Opera's Envy?" paper presented at the annual conference of the International Federation of Theatre Research (St. Petersburg, May 2004).
"Lucia in The Fifth Element: The Embodiment of Vocal Jouissance in Opera," paper presented at the conference on film music, "Reviewing the Canon: Borrowed Music in Films" (Stanford Univ., May 2003).
Other Recent Activities and Services
Associate Editor, The Journal of Film Music (2005–present).
MLA (Modern Language Association): member of the executive committee on "Opera as Literary and Dramatic Form" (2005-09; chair in 2009).
AMS Council (2004-06).
Panelist for "History, Memory, and Representation: Exploring Artistic Interpretations of Historical Events," sponsored by the Cincinnati Opera in relation to its commission for the opera Margaret Garner (April 2005).
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities: reader for the 2005 meeting.
"Music in Horror and Sci-Fi Films," interview for the BBC's "Music Review," a radio program on film music (Nov. 2004).
Recent Grants, Fellowships, and Honors
University of Cincinnati Faculty Development Council Grant, for the project “Enhancing Pedagogical Skills for Interdisciplinary Courses” (2005–06).
University of Cincinnati, Faculty Research Council Grant for the project, Opera as Soundtrack (2004-05).
Junior Faculty Research Grant awarded by the University of Nevada, Reno, for the project "Hollywood Goes to the Opera" (2003-04).

Jonathan Kregor
Recent Publications

Liszt and the Vocabularies of Transcription (monograph in progress).

Contributing Editor, C.P.E. Bach, Arrangements of Orchestral Works, ser. I, vol. 10.2, of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works, in preparation.

“Liszt, Yesterday and Today,” Nineteenth-Century Music Review 4/2 (2007): 141–153.

“Collaboration and Content in the Symphonie fantastique Transcription,” The Journal of Musicology 24/2 (2007): 195–236.

Review of William Alexander Eddie, Charles Valentin Alkan: His Life and His Music, in Notes 64/4 (2008): forthcoming.

Review of Alan Walker, Reflections on Liszt, in Notes 63/4 (2007): 836–839.

Review of Dana Gooley, The Virtuoso Liszt, in Nineteenth-Century Music Review 3/2 (2006): 170–173.

Recent Presentations

“Beethoven as Myth and Music, c. 1840,” presented at the meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Durham, NH, May 2007.

“The Work of Art Before the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: A Reconsideration of the Nineteenth-Century Piano Transcription,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, Los Angeles, CA, November 2006.

“From Partition to Hausmusik: Franz Liszt’s Symphonie fantastique and the Berlin Firm of A. M. Schlesinger,” presented at the annual meeting of the Royal Musical Association, Nottingham, England, July 2006.

“Franz Liszt’s Late Transcriptions and the Lure of History,” presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, Manchester, England, July 2006.

bruce d. mcclung
Recent Publications

Lady in the Dark, ed. bruce d. mcclung (New York: Kurt Weill Foundation for Music; European American Music, in preparation); Kurt Weill Edition, Series I, Volume 16.

“Musical Sophistication on Broadway: Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Musical, 2d edn., ed. Paul Laird and William Everett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press); with Paul Laird.

Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007).

Recent Presentations

“Municipal Opera: Cincinnati, Paoletta, and the Ohio Valley Exposition of 1910,” invited lecture, Music Library Association, Midwest Chapter Meeting (12 October 2007).

“George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, and the Jewish Immigrant Experience,” invited lecture, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY (13 April 2007).

Lady in the Dark’s Vocal Score: Corrupted Source or Viable Text?,” invited lecture, Editorial Board Meeting, Kurt Weill Edition, NYC (2 March 2007).

“Source Study and the Broadway Musical,” International Colloquium “The American and British Musical,” University of Bristol [UK] (10 March 2006).

“The Cincinnati Songs of Stephen Foster,” lecture presented at the Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati Wing), 2005.

“The American Landscape: Indianist Art and Music,” lecture presented at the Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati Wing), 2005.

“From the Music Cabinet: Cincinnati Sheet Music,” lecture presented at the Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati Wing), 2005.

Other Recent Activities and Services
Program Committee, "Stage, Song, and Screen III," Conference on American Musical Theater at CUNY, 2–5 April 2008

Session Chair, American Musicological Society, 2007 Annual Meeting

Advisory Committee, Kurt Weill Edition
Recent Grants, Fellowships, and Honors
Kurt Weill Prize (2007) from the Modern Language Association, American Musicological Society, American Society for Theatre Research, and the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music for Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical

George Freedley Memorial Award, Special Jury Prize (2006) from the Theatre Library Association for Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical

Faculty Development Grant, 2006

University of Cincinnati, Faculty Research Council Grant, 2005

Friends of CCM Grant, 2005


Mary Sue Morrow
Recent Publications

The Symphonic Repertoire, Vol.1: The Eighteenth-Century Symphony, ed. Mary Sue Morrow and Bathia Churgin (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, in preparation).

“Other Classical Repertoires.”  In The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony, ed. Julian Horton.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press. In preparation.

“Grundlegende Aspekte der deutschen Musikkritik um 1800.”  In Musik und Bürgerkultur:  Leipzigs Aufstieg zur Musikstadt, ed. Stefan Horlitz and Marion Recknagel, 82–90. Leipzig Musik und Stadt:  Studien und Dokumente, 2. Leipzig: Edition Peters, 2007.

“Symphonies and Sitcoms:  Rethinking Genre History with Mozart in Mind.” Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online 6/II (December, 2006).

“Vienna,” in The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia, ed. Cliff Eisen and Simon P. Keefe (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006): 517-26.

“Review of John A. Rice, Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court, 1792-1807,” Eighteenth-Century Music 2 (2005): 14-16.

“Italian Perspectives on Instrumental Music in the Late Eighteenth-Century,” in Florilegium Musicae: Studi in onore di Carolyn Gianturco, ed. Patrizia Radicchi and Michael Burden (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2004): II: 713-35.
Review of Daniel Heartz, Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style 1720–1780, Notes (June 2004): 958-61.
Recent Presentations

“The Power and Perils of Using Criticism in Constructing a History of the Eighteenth-Century Symphony. Keynote address, Holbergdagene (Holberg Symposium). Bergen, Norway, December 2007.

“Evolving-Developing-Congealing-Coalescing, or the Importance of Verbs in Constructing a History of the Eighteenth-Century Symphonic Repertoire,” Conference on Writing the History of the Eighteenth-Century Symphony (Indiana Univ.), 2005.
“The Beethoven Effect,” Plenary Lecture for the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium, Rhodes College (Memphis, TN), 2005.
“Beethoven, Time Travel, and the Meaning of Music,” Bethel College (McKenzie, TN), 2004.
"Project Report: The Eighteenth-Century Symphony," paper presented at the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music (Georgetown Univ.; Washington, DC), 2004.
"Beethoven's Musical World," lecture presented at the Humanities West Winter 2003 program, "Beethoven, Resonant Genius" (San Francisco, CA), 2003.
Other Recent Activities and Services
Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, board member, 2005–07.
AMS Committee on Membership and Professional Development, 2006–09.
UC European Studies Colloquium Faculty Participant, Fall 2005.
Recent Grants, Fellowships, and Honors
National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Grant for “The Eighteenth-Century Symphony” for 2006–08.
Eva Judd O'Meara Award (2006) for the best review published in Notes, for review of “Daniel Heartz, Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style 1720-1780,” Notes (June 2004): 958-61.
Tangeman Sacred Music Center Travel Grant, 2006.
University Research Grant, 2005.

Edward Nowacki
Recent Publications
"Reading the Melodies of the Old Roman Mass Proper: A Hypothesis Defended," in Sean Gallagher, James Haar, John Nádas, and Timothy Striplin (eds.), Western Plainchant in the First Millennium (Ashgate, 2003).
Recent Presentations
"Linguistic Perspectives in the Analysis of Plainchant," paper presented at the Irish World Music Centre, Univ. of Limerick, 2004.
Other Recent Activities and Services
Participated in a seminar for graduate students at the Univ. of Limerick (Ireland) in Gregorian chant, ritual song, and Irish folk singing and dance, 2004.

Stephanie P. Schlagel
Recent Publications
Masses by Ludwig Daser and Mattaeus Le Maistre: Parody Masses on Josquin's Motets from the Bavarian Ducal Court of Albrecht V, Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance (Middleton, WI: A-R Editions [in preparation]).
"A Credible (Mis)Attribution to Josquin in Hans Ott's Novum et insigne opus musicum: Contemporary Perceptions, Modern Conceptions, and the Case of Veni sancte Spiritus," Tijdschrift van de Koninkliike Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 56 (2006): 97-126.
Si placet Parts for Motets by Josquin and His Contemporaries, Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, 146 (Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2006).
Review of Honey Meconi, Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court, Notes [Journal of the Music Library Association]: 60 (2004): 929–31.
"The Liber selectarum cantionum and the 'German Josquin Renaissance,'" Journal of Musicology 19/4 (2002 [published 2003]): 564–615.
Recent Presentations
"Franco-Flemish Composers in the Rokycany Music Collection: An Investigation of the Music from the Oldest Style Layer,” with Katerina Mayrova, at Musical Culture of the Czech Lands and Central Europe before 1620 (Prague, Czech Republic), 2006.
"Finding New Music in Old Sources: The Si placet Parts to Josquin's Motets," paper presented at Michigan State University, School of Music, Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI), 2004.
Other Recent Activities and Services
Panelist, Early Music America Open Session for Early Music Directors: "Reconciling the Goals of a Collegium Program: Early Music Education vs. Polished Performance," at the American Musicological Society (Houston, TX), 2003.
Director, CCM Early Music Lab.
Board Member, Catacoustic Consort.
Recent Grants, Fellowships, and Honors
University of Cincinnati, Tangeman Sacred Music Foundation Grant (summer 2006).
University of Cincinnati, Faculty Development Council Grant: "Language and Culture Studies in Europe" (2005-6).
University of Cincinnati, Faculty Research Council Grant: "Si placet Parts for Motets by Josquin and His Contemporaries" (2004-5).