Vera H.P. Hsu

Visiting Lecturer

Klarman Hall
101 Lincoln Hall
verahsu@cornell.edu

Education

D.M.A. Piano performance, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

M.A. Orchestral conducting, Taipei University of the Arts

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Links

James Spinazzola

Barbara & Richard T. Silver ‘50, MD ‘53 Associate Professor, Director of Winds

Publications

Klarman Hall
332 Lincoln Hall
jms862@cornell.edu
607/2554097

Education

  • DMA, Louisiana State University

Departments and programs

Links

Michael Sparhuber

Lecturer, Director of Percussion; PR/Production Manager, Cornell Concert Series

Klarman Hall

Departments and programs

David Yearsley

Herbert Gussman Professor of Music

Publications

Books: 

  • Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint (2002)
  • Bach's Feet (2012)
  • Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks (University of Chicago Press, 2019)

 

Articles:

  • "Bach as Musical Humorist," in Re-Thinking Bach, ed. Bettina Varwig (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
  • "Practicing Feet" in Playing to Learn: Learning to Play: Essays on Practicing the Organ, ed. Michael Bauer (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming)   
  • “Keyboard Music,” in Routledge Companion to Bach Research, ed. Robin Leaver and Yo Tomita (London: Routledge, 2017): 295-316.
  • “’Nothing More to Conquer’: Müthel’s Duetto in the Burney’s Drawing Room and Beyond” Keyboard Perspectives 9 (2016): 1-31.
  • “To a Mother’s Memory: Loss and Eternity in Nicolaus Adam Strungk’s Ricercar sopra la Morte della mia carissimi Madre, ” Keyboard Perspectives 5 (2014): 13-40.
  • “Hoop Skirts, Coffee, and the Voices of Two Bach Women,” Women and Music 17 (2013): 27-58.
  • “Exorcising Completeness in the Pedal-Exercitium” in The American Organist 46 (November, 2012): 63-69.
  • “Bernhard the German and the Invention of Four-Limbed Performance at the Organ,” in Organ Yearbook 39 (2010): 7-25.
  • “Princes of War and Peace and their Most Humble Court Composer,” in Konturen 1 (2008), on-line: http://konturen.uoregon.edu/vol1_Yearsley.html
  • “Women at the Organ: a Fragment,” in Music and its Problems: Essays in Honor of Peter Williams, ed. Thomas Donahue (Philadelphia: Organ Historical Society, 2007), 119-141
  • “Travel Music as Travel Writing: Froberger’s Melancholic Journeys,” in Keyboard Perspectives 1 (2008): 87-112.
  • “In Buxtehude’s Footsteps,” Early Music 35 (2007): 339-353.
  • “C. P. E. Bach and the Living Traditions of Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint,” in C. P. E. Bach Studies, ed. Annette Richards (Cambridge University Press, 2006), 173-201.
  • "Death Everyday: the Anna Magdalena Bach Book of 1725 and the Art of Dying," in Eighteenth-Century Music (2005): 231-249.
  • "The Concerto in the Age of J. S. Bach," Cambridge Companion to the Concerto, ed. Simon Keefe. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2005.
  • "C. P. E. Bach and the Living Traditions of Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint," in C. P. E. Bach Studies, ed. Annette Richards. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2005.
  • "The Musical Patriots of the Hamburg Opera: Mattheson, Keiser, and Masaniello furioso," in Patriotism, Cosmpolitanism, and National Culture: Public Culture in Hamburg, 1700-2000, ed. Peter Hohendahl. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.
  • "The Awkward Idiom: Hand-crossing and the European Keyboard Scene around 1730," in Early Music (May 2002).
  • "An Ideal Organ and its Experts Across the Seventeenth Century," in The Organ as a Mirror of its Time, ed. Kerala Snyder. Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • "Alchemy and Canon in an Age of Reason," in Journal of the American Musicological Society (Summer 1998); translated as "Alchemie und Kontrapunkt im 'Zeitalter der Venunft,'" in Antike Weisheit und kulturelle Praxis: Hermetismus als Kulturphänomen in der frühen Neuzeit, ed. Anne-Charlott Trepp and Hartmut Lehmann. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001.
  • "Toward an Allegorical Interpretation of Buxtehude's Funerary Counterpoints," in Music and Letters (January 2000).
  • "Stylus Phantasticus and the New Musical Imagination," in GOArt Research Reports, vol. 1, ed. Sverker Jullander (Göteborg, 2000).
  • "J. S. Bach," in Cambridge Companion to the Organ, ed. Geoffrey Webber and Nicholas Thistlethwaite. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

 

Recordings:

  • Bitter Banquet with Powerdove (foc's'le, 2018)
  • J. S. Bach & Sons at the Organ (Musica Omnia, 2017)
  • Organ Sonatas of J. S. Bach  (Musica Omnia, 2015), double cd
  • Songs and Sonatas from Baroque London (with Martin Davids, violin; Musica Omnia, 2008)
  • The Great Contest: Bach, Scarlatti, Handel at the Organ (Loft, 2002)    
  • In Dialogue (music for two organs with Robert Bates; Loft, 2001)
  • Music of a Father and Son: Organ Works of Delphin and Nicolaus Adam Strungk (Loft, 1999)
Klarman Hall
101 Lincoln Hall
dgy2@cornell.edu
607/3199526

Education

  • A. B. Harvard College
  • Ph.D. Stanford University

Departments and programs

Keywords

  • History, literature, and performance of music
  • Bach
  • Handel
  • musical travels
  • organ performance

Miri Yampolsky

Senior Lecturer, Artist in Residence

Klarman Hall
101 Lincoln Hall
my86@cornell.edu

Education

M.M., Peabody Conservatory

Departments and programs

Annette Richards

Given Foundation Professor in the Humanities and University Organist

Publications

Selected Publications:

  • “Music for a Princess.” German 17th- and 18th-century music from the library of Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia, on the Cornell Baroque Organ. (Recorded March 2013; released August 2014, Loft Recordings).
  • “Melchior Schildt and the North German Organ Art,” on the historic Raphaelis Organ at Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark. (2008, Loft Recordings).

Books:

  • Keyboard Perspectives (2006-13; 2016; 2017)
  • C. P. E. Bach Studies Cambridge University Press (2006)
  • The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque. Cambridge University Press (2001)
  • Acting on the Past: Historical Performance across the Disciplines. Editor, with Mark Franko. Wesleyan University Press (2000)

Articles and Book Chapters:

  •  “Ghost Music, or the Otherworldy Voice of the Glass Harmonica.” Tilman Skowroneck, ed., Keyboard Perspectives VIII (2016), 1-42
  • „Vereint durch den erhabenen Chor: Das ästhetisch-politische Vermächtnis von Händels Halleluja im Zeitalter der Personalunion.“ In Mehr Händel ed. Wolfgang Sandberger, [Göttinger Händel Beiträge XVI], (2015).
  • “The Musical Poetry of the Graveyard.” Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music. (forthcoming).
  • “Gothic Musical Scenes and the Image of Performance.” Late 18th-Century Music and Visual Culture, ed., Cliff Eisen and Alan Davison (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017).
  • “Listening for Likeness, or C. P. E. Bach and the Art of Speculation,” Early Music Vol. XLII no. 3 (2014), 347-362.
  •  “The Charitable Handel.” In The Power of Musick, ed. Anorthe Kremers and Wolfgang Sandberger [Göttinger Händel Beiträge XV], (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014), 87-108.
  • “C. P. E Bach’s Freundschaftstempel  and the Portrait of Modern Life.” Die Tonkunst, (8/1, January 2014), 39-49.
  • “C. P. E. Bach, Portraits and the Physiognomy of Music History.” Journal of the American Musicological Society (Volume 66 no. 2, Summer, 2013), 337-396.
  • “Charlottenburg Schnitger: 1706—1931—2011.” In Keyboard Perspectives IV, 2013
  •  “Spielräume der Musik zwischen Konzertsaal und Open Air: Beethoven, Joe Wrights The Soloist und die Idee von urbaner Freiheit” (co-authored with David Yearsley) in Kunst —Garten — Kultur (Berlin, 2010), ed. Stefanie Hennecke and Gert Gröning (Berlin: Reimer, 2010)
  • "An Enduring Monument: C. P. E. Bach and the Musical Sublime." In C. P. E. Bach Studies.
  • "Haydn's London Trios and the Rhetoric of the Grotesque." In Engaging Rhetoric, ed. Tom Beghin, Sander Goldberg and Elisabeth Le Guin. Chicago University Press.
  • "Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the Intimate Poetics of Public Music." In Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and National Culture: Public Culture in Hamburg 1700-1933, Peter U. Hohendahl, ed. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.
  • "C. P. E. Bach and the Music of Solitude." In Einsamkeit, ed. Aleida Assmann and Jan Assmann. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1999.
  • "C. P. E. Bach's Free Fantasy and the Performance of the Imagination." In Acting on the Past.
Klarman Hall
101 Lincoln Hall
annette.richards@cornell.edu
607/255-7102

Education

  • Ph.D., Stanford University

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

musicology; music history and culture in the long 18th century; organ; history of technology and the senses; performance

Juliana May Pepinsky

Senior Lecturer

Klarman Hall
101 Lincoln Hall
jm857@cornell.edu

Education

M.M., Yale School of Music

Departments and programs

Roger Moseley

Associate Professor

Publications

Monograph

  • Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016).

Refereed Journal Articles

  • “Chopin’s Aliases.” Nineteenth-Century Music 42, no. 1 (2018): 3–29.
  •  “Rehear(s)ing Media Archaeology.” Contribution to “Discrete/Continuous: Music and Media Theory after Kittler” (Colloquy convened by Alexander Rehding), Journal of the American Musicological Society 70, no. 1 (2017): 245–51.
  • “The Qualities of Quantities: ‘Madamina, il catalogo è questo.’” Cambridge Opera Journal 28, no. 2 (2016): 137–40.
  • “Digital Analogies: The Keyboard as Field of Musical Play.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 68, no. 1 (2015): 151–227.
  • “Entextualization and the Improvised Past.” Music Theory Online 19, no. 2 (2013).
  • “Mozart’s Harlequinade: Improvising Music alla commedia dell’arte.” Common Knowledge 17, no. 2 (2011): 335–47.
  • “Reforming Johannes: Brahms, Kreisler, and the Piano Trio in B, op. 8.” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 132, no. 2 (2007): 252–305. (Winner of the 2008 Jerome Roche Prize from the Royal Musical Association “for a distinguished article by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career.”)

Commissioned Book Chapters and Articles

  • “Roundtable: Current Perspectives on Music, Sound, and Narrative in Screen Media,” co-authored with Anahid Kassabian, Claudia Gorbman, et al. In The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound, edited by Miguel Mera, Ron Sadoff, and Benjamin Winters, 108–24. New York: Routledge, 2017.
  • “Nintendo’s Art of Musical Play,” co-authored with Aya Saiki. In Music in Video Games: Studying Play, edited by K. J. Donnelly, William Gibbons, and Neil Lerner, 51–76. New York: Routledge, 2014.
  • “Playing Games With Music (and Vice Versa): Ludomusicological Perspectives on Guitar Hero and Rock Band.” In Taking It to the Bridge: Music as Performance, edited by Nicholas Cook and Richard Pettengill, 279–318. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013.
  • “Music, Visual Culture, and Digital Games.” In The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture, edited by Tim Shephard and Anne Leonard, 376–84. New York: Routledge, 2013.
  • “Presenting the Past: The Experience of Historically Inspired Keyboard Improvisation.” Keyboard Perspectives 2 (2009): 83–102. (Recording of solo improvisation included on accompanying CD.)
  • “Between Work and Play: Brahms as Performer of His Own Music.” In Johannes Brahms and His World, edited by Kevin C. Karnes and Walter Frisch, 137–65. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
  • “Is There More than Juan Brahms?” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 131, no. 1 (2006): 160–75.
Klarman Hall
101 Lincoln Hall
rsm253@cornell.edu

Education

  • PhD, Music History and Literature (UC Berkeley)
  • MMus, Collaborative Piano (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London)
  • MSt, Musicology (University of Oxford)
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Piano Performance (Trinity College of Music, London)
  • BA, Music (University of Oxford)

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Links

Keywords

  • Ludomusicology
  • Media theory
  • Keyboard studies
  • 18th- and 19th-century instrumental music
  • Performance practice
  • Improvisation

Christopher J. Miller

Senior Lecturer

Klarman Hall
101 Lincoln Hall
cjm299@cornell.edu

Education

PhD, Ethnomusicology, Wesleyan University

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Paul Merrill

Herbert Gussman Associate Professor of the Practice, Director of Jazz

Klarman Hall
101 Lincoln Hall
paulmerrill@cornell.edu
607/255-8738

Education

  • B.M. William Paterson
  • M.M. Ithaca College
  • D.M.A. Studies Eastman School of Music

Departments and programs

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