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Office: Music Building 105 | Phone: 732-932-8860 Music history Trained at the Eastman School of Music (B.Mus. in Theory) and New York University (M.A. and Ph.D. in Musicology), Prof. Grave serves as co-editor of one of the most widely read, peer-reviewed journals in the field, The Journal of Musicology, published by the University of California Press. A specialist in eighteenth-century instrumental music, theory, and aesthetics, he has written many articles and book reviews for major scholarly journals in the United States and Europe, including the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music Theory Spectrum, Music Review, Eighteenth-Century Music, and Ad Parnassum. He is also a contributing author for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, first and second editions. His books, coauthored with Margaret Grupp Grave, include In Praise of Harmony: The Teachings of Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler (University of Nebraska Press, 1987), Franz Joseph Haydn: A Guide to Research (Garland Publishing, 1990), and, most recently, The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn (Oxford University Press, 2006). His accomplishments as a music editor include editions of Abbé Vogler’s Pièces de clavecin and Zwei und dreisig Präludien (A-R Editions, 1986) and ballet-theater works by Vogler and his Mannheim colleague Christian Cannabich (A-R Editions, 1996). The Graves are currently writing a comprehensive study of of Mozart’s concertos.
Office: Graduate Music House 200D | Phone: 732-932-8849
Rufus HallmarkMusic History Hallmark joined the Rutgers faculty in 2002 and served as Chair of the Music Department till 2005. He was educated at Davidson College (B.A., Music), Boston University (M.A., Musicology), and Princeton (Ph.D., Musicology), and previously taught at Brown, M.I.T., College of the Holy Cross, and The Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, CUNY. Hallmark’s dissertation, "The Genesis of Schumann's Dichterliebe" on the sketches for Robert Schumann’s song cycle, was published as a book. He has authored many other articles on the songs of Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. He is the editor of, and a contributor to, "German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century" (1996; second revised edition 2009). He is preparing Schumann's famous cycles "Frauenliebe und Leben" and "Dichterliebe" for the new complete critical edition of Schumann’s works and writing a book on “Frauenliebe” for Cambridge Music Handbooks. He has also written on the "Songs of Travel" of Ralph Vaughan Williams. He is a member OF the American Musicological Society and served as its Secretary (2001-2007). Hallmark is also a singer (tenor); he has sung the Mozart roles of Tamino and Pedrillo, Beethoven's Jaquino, the Evangelist in Bach's St. John Passion, Schumann's "Dichterliebe," Schubert’s "Winterreise," and Britten’s "Serenade."
Office: Grad Music House 200C | Phone: 732-932-8849
Douglas JohnsonMusic history Prof. Johnson has degrees from Hamilton College (B.A.) and the University of California-Berkeley (M.A. and Ph.D.). He works on topics in 18th- and 19th- century music and has published widely on Beethoven, with special concentration on the composer's sketchbooks. He co-authored The Beethoven Sketchbooks with Alan Tyson and Robert Winter, which won the Otto Kinkeldey Award for the best book in musicology, presented by the American Musicological Society in 1986.
Office: Music 106 | Phone: 732-932-9220
Andrew KirkmanMusic history Dr. Kirkman has a B.A. degree from Durham University and an M.Mus. and Ph.D. from Kings College, London. He has published and lectured widely on music of the 15th century. He has also directed recordings of Masses by Dufay for Hyperion Records, one of which won a Gramophone award for 1999. His book The Three- Voice Mass in the Later Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: Style, Distribution and Case Studies is published by Garland. At Rutgers he directs the Collegium Musicum.
Office: GMH 200F | Phone: 732-932-6873
George B. StaufferMusic History is Dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Professor of Music History at Rutgers University. He is known internationally as a scholar, performer, and writer on the music and culture of the Baroque Era and the life and works of J.S. Bach in particular. Educated at Dartmouth College, Bryn Mawr College, and Columbia University, he has published several widely- cited and authoritative books. He has also contributed to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Collier’s Encyclopedia, Early Music, Bach-Jahrbuch, and many other American, European, and Asian publications. As a speaker, he has lectured at Harvard University, Yale University, University of Leipzig, National Sun Yat- sen University, and many other schools. As a performer, Stauffer studied organ with John Weaver and Vernon de Tar (Juilliard School). He served as University Organist and Chapel Music Director at Columbia University, where he appeared frequently in concert.
Office: MGSA Dean's Office | Phone: 732-932-9360
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