Employment:
Associate Professor, Lewis and Clark College,
Portland, OR 1999- present
Assistant Professor, Lewis and Clark College, Portland OR
1993-1999
Adjunct Professor, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
1992-93
Instructor, Columbia University, New York, NY 1988-92
Education:
Ph.D. Columbia University, Historical
Musicology 1993
M.Phil. Columbia University, Historical Musicology 1991
M.A. Columbia University, Historical Musicology 1989
B.A. Barnard College, English 1983
Publications:
Book:
Singing in the Garden: Music and Culture in
the Tuscan Trecento.
Biblioteca Musicologica, edited by Tilman Seebass, vol. 3. Lucca:
Libreria
Musicale Italiana Editrice, 1998.
Articles:
"Representations of Music in the Astrological
Frescoes of the Salone della Ragione in Padua." Music in Art
(forthcoming).
"Marchetto of Padua and Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel Frescoes." Early
Music 27, no. 1 (February 1999): 7-24. A shorter version of this
paper appear in Source: Notes in the History of Art 36, no. 4
(Summer 1999): 1-15.
"Music in the Cornice of Boccaccio's Decameron." Medievalia et Humanistica 24 (1997): 33-49.
"A Musical Interpretation of Andrea di Bonaiuto's Allegory of the Dominican Order." Imago Musicae 9/12 (1992-95): 123-139.
"Women and Trecento Music." In Woman Composers: Music through the Ages. Edited by Martha Schleifer and Sylvia Glickman. Volume 1: Composers Born before 1599. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1996.
"Landscape Memories: An Interview with Meredith Monk." Women of Note Quarterly 4, no. 3 (1996): 18-22.
"Musical Profile: Fiorenza Gilioli." Women of Note Quarterly 2, no. 4 (1994): 19-21.
"An Interview with Ned Rorem in Celebration of his 70th Birthday." Current Musicology 54 (1993): 24-38.
Fiction
"Two Topless Girls on the Beach," Phoebe: Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory and Aesthetics, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring, 1999): 57-63.
Reviews: Books
Audible Traces: Gender, Identity, and Music. Edited by Elaine Barkin and Lydia Hamessley. Zurich and Los Angeles: Carciofoli Verlagshaus: 1999. Newsletter of the Gay and Lesbian ? of the American Musicogical Society.
Ned Rorem's Other Entertainment. Journal of Musicological Research 17, no. 3-4 (1998): 269-74.
Reviews: Recordings
Elizabeth Austin's Wilderness Symphony and Orchestra Miniatures by Karen Tarlow and Helen Stanley. International Alliance for Women in Music Journal 4, no. 1 (Winter 1998): 44-5.
Elizabetta de Gamberini's Six Sonatas for Harpsichord. International Alliance for Women in Music Journal 3, no. 2 (February 1997): 37.
Works by Elizabeth Scheidel-Austin, Mary Jeanne van Appledorn, Susan Hurley, and Tina Davidson. International Alliance for Women in Music Journal 3, no. 2 (June 1997): 32-33.
The Oregonian Newspaper:
"Chamber Players Revive Rarely Heard Works,"
May 15, 2000.
"Gay Men’s Concert Inspires Tolerance," April 17, 2000.
"Symphony Shows Flair for Elegance," March 13, 2000.
"Indian Songs Showcase Singer’s Range, Intensity," February 28,
2000.
"Fear No Music Cleans Up With Quartet for Whirlies," January 23,
2000.
"Baroque Grows, Staging Rousing ‘Mega-Messiah,’" December
20, 1999.
"Portland Camerata Brings Life to Christmas Past," December 14,
1999.
"Pianist Shows How to ‘Play With Heart,’" December 6,
1999.
"’What Isn’t There’ Still Convincing Vocal Show,"
November 23, 1999.
"Oregon Symphony Overcomes Trend of Intrusive Words," November 15,
1999.
"All Beethoven Program Delivers Enduring Thrills," October 11,
1999.
Sforzando Magazine:
"Gunther Schuler On Paul Klee: A Freely Invented Parallel Conception," Vol. 5, No. 2, (February 2000): 5-7.
"The Life and Times and Music of Hildegard of Bingen," 3, no. 7 (July-August 1998): 10-12.
"A Postcard from London," 3, no. 6 (June 1998): 18-19.
"The Florentine Trecento," 3, no. 1 (January 1998): 10-12.
"Beyond Messiah--Handel's Other Oratorios," 2, no. 11 (December 1997): 10-11.
"Impressions-Passion," 2, no. 11 (December 1997): 26.
"Modernism Rejected--Korngold's Symphony," 2, no. 10 (November 1997):14-15.
"Fear no Music--20th-Century Fire and Ashes," 2, no. 9 (October 1997): 22-23.
"Impressions: Sonatas by Elizabeth: Elizabetta de Gamberini and Elizabeth
Hardin," 2, no. 2 (February 1997): 48.
"Impressions: Song Noir: Duoglide," 1, no. 8 (November 1996): 48.
Papers delivered at conferences:
"Revisiting Dufay’s St. Anthony Mass and its Connection to Donatello’s Altar of St. Anthony of Padua." Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Toronto, November 2, 2000.
Revisiting Dufay’s St. Anthony Mass and its Connection to Donatello’s Altar of St. Anthony of Padua. Paper presented at the Northwest Chapter of the American Musicological Meeting, April 8, 2000. Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA.
"Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Gays and Lesbians in the NCAA," Organizer and Panelist of discussion group at the Annual Faculty Athletic Representative Association Meeting in Tampa, Florida, November 9-11, 2000.
"The Influence of Aristotle on the Pomerium of Marchetto of Padua." Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Boston, October 31, 1998.
"Images of Music in the Astrological Ceiling of the Sala della Ragione in Padua." 33rd International Conference on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 7, 1998.
"New Techniques in Teaching Western Music History." Conference entitled Teaching the Past in the Present. Sponsored by the University of Oregon, October 25, 1997.
"Justice and Music in Giotto's Arena Chapel Frescoes." Medieval Association of the Pacific, Honolulu, March 15, 1997.
"A Snake in the Garden: The Visconti Biscia and the Trecento Madrigal." Renaissance Society of America Conference, Indiana University, April 19,1996.
"Dancing in the Streets: A Musical Insertion in Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Effects of Good Government in the City (1337-1340)." Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of California, Berkeley, March 4, 1995.
"A starmi con le muse in Parnaso: Boccaccio's Philosophy of Music as Revealed in his Commentary on the Divine Comedy." Northwest Chapter Meeting of the American Musicolgical Society, Lewis and Clark College, March 31, 1995.
"Unlearning to not Speak: Clara Schumann and the Anxiety of Authorship." Thirteenth Annual Lewis and Clark Gender Symposium, Lewis and Clark College, April 16, 1994.
"Without Overstepping the Bounds of What is Reasonable: Music in the Cornice of Boccaccio's Decameron," Spring Meeting of the American Musicological Society Pacific Northwest Chapter, University of Victoria, April 10, 1994.
"The Silent Voice: Lip-synching and the Performance of Popular Music." International Association for the Study of Popular Music Conference, North Texas State University, October 4, 1992.
"The Influence of Aristotle's Politics on the Aesthetics of Trecento Music." Nineteenth Annual Acta Conference, State University of New York at Albany, April 4, 1992.
"An Examination of Gender in Selected Writings and Music of Charles Ives." Feminist Theory and Music Conference, University of Minnesota, July 2, 1991.
Lectures:
"Making College Campuses Safe," Take Back the Night, Chapel at Lewis and Clark College, March 16, 2000. "Festa Decameron," Part of "Last Lecture" Series, Evans Auditorium at Lewis and Clark College, October 28, 1999.
"Vivaldi's Four Seasons," Pre-concert lecture for Portland Baroque Orchestra Concert, Reed College, September 27, 1998.
"Music and Art and the Re-Invention of America," Lewis and Clark College Core Curriculum Lecture Series, Evans Auditorium, Lewis and Clark College, April 17th, 1996.
"A Snake in the Garden: The Visconti Biscia and the Trecento Madrigal" Lewis and Clark College Faculty Colloquium Series, April 8, 1996.
"Realism in the Trecento," Department of Music, University of Oregon, October 19, 1995.
"Shostakovich and Prokofiev" Pre-concert lecture for the Oregon Symphony Concert, James DePreist conducting. Portland, OR, November 22, 1994.
"Vincent McDermott's Opera Mata Hari," Pre-opera lecture sponsored by the Oregon Humanities Council. The Old Church, Portland, OR, January 16, 1994.
"Art and Music in Renaissance Italy," Berg-Swann Auditorium, Portland Art Museum, March 12, 1994.
Review of my book:
Samuel Norton, Goldberg: Early Music Magazine, Vol. 8, August 1999, p. 9.
Courses Taught:
Opera: from Mantua to Beijing
Topics in Music History: Politics and Music in 20th-century Music
Topics in Music History: Trecento Music and Culture
Topics in Music History: Women in Music
Topics in Music History: Music and Art in the Medieval Period and
Beyond
Music and Language: Writing about Music
Contemporary Trends: Crossover: Classical and Popular Music after
1960
Music History I and II (Music history for music majors from Gregorian
Chant to contemporary)
Sound and Sense (Music Appreciation at Lewis and Clark College)
Music Humanities (Music Appreciation at Columbia University)
Inventing America (Core course required of all first-year students at
Lewis and Clark) Basic Inquiry (Core course required of all
first-year students at Lewis and Clark)
Other related activities:
Faculty Athletic Representative, Lewis and Clark College 1999-
present.
Chairperson of Planning Committee of 1995 Pacific
Northwest March 29-31, 1995
Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Lewis and
Clark College
Editor-in-Chief, Current Musicology 1992-1993
Awards:
Arnold and Lois S. Graves Award for Excellence 1999-2000 in Teaching in the Humanities, Pomona College
Professor of the Year at Lewis and Clark College 1997-1998
Runner-up, Professor of the Year at Lewis and Clark College 1994-1995
Lewis and Clark College Faculty Summer Research Grant 1994
Mellon Foundation Summer Fellowship 1992
President's Fellow, Columbia University 1988-91
created by nbeck@lclark.edu Updated August 22, 2000