Musicology and Music Library Faculty

Left to Right: Jack Sheinbaum, Antonia L. Banducci, Todd Fair, and Suzanne Moulton-Gertig, Sarah Morelli (not Pictured)

Musicology Faculty

The Lamont School of Music Musicology faculty is committed to training critical thinkers and writers in all aspects of music history. Music History studies offer courses through the University Program for undergraduate students as well as a Master of Arts in Music History. Providing a full range of study in Western music, our history courses include History of Opera, Orchestral Literature, Historiography, History of Chamber Music, Approaches to Popular Music, and Topics in World Music as well as composer-based courses from Bach to Bartók.  Courses in jazz history, taught by our director of jazz studies, Malcolm Lynn Baker, are an optional component of our program. Depending on a student's career goals, he or she may choose to pursue a double major, combining performance and musicology.

Antonia L. Banducci
Chair, Associate Professor, PhD
TRVH 319 | 303.871.6920
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Antonia L. Banducci, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Music History and Chair of the Music History Department teaches both lower- and upper-division courses for music majors and participates in the University of Denver's General Education program. Specializing in French Baroque opera, she spent a year in doctoral research in Paris as a Fulbright Scholar. Her dissertation, "Tancrède by Antoine Danchet and André Campra: Performance History and Reception (1702-1764)," (Washington University, St. Louis, 1990) received the National Opera Association's First Biennial Award for Best Dissertation on an operatic topic. Prof. Banducci has published in Early Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, the Journal for Seventeenth-Century Music, and Notes. She has presented papers at both national and international musicology meetings and has written CD jacket notes for Harmonia Mundi. A facsimile edition of André Campra's Tancrède , for which she provided the introduction and appendices, is currently in press.  

Jack Sheinbaum
Associate Professor, PhD
TRVH 314 | 303.871.6988
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Jack Sheinbaum, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music History, teaches courses for undergraduate and graduate music majors, as well as courses on musical topics for non-majors. His primary research interests include Western art music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, popular music, and historiography. Recent publications include “The Artifice of the ‘Natural’: Mahler’s Orchestration at Cadences,” Journal of Musicological Research 24/2 (2005); “Adorno’s Mahler and the Timbral Outsider,” Journal of the Royal Musical Association (in press, 2006); and essays in Progressive Rock Reconsidered, ed. Kevin Holm-Husdon (Routledge, 2002), and Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture, ed. Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, and Ben Saunders (Duke, 2002). Before joining the faculty of the Lamont School of Music in 2000, he taught at Cornell University and the University of Rochester. Professor Sheinbaum is currently co-chair of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the American Musicological Society, and the musicology representative of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the College Music Society.

Sarah Morelli

Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology

TRVH 301 l 303. 871 6962

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Foundation Courses Faculty

Todd Fair
Lecturer, DU Carillonneur
TRVH 435 | 303.871.6967
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Todd Fair, having earned a degree in piano/music education from Pennsylvania's West Chester University in 1974, Todd Fair enrolled at the Netherlands Carillon School in the area where the carillon originated.  In 1977 he was awarded the Final Diploma and in 1979 he won a competition and became the first non-Dutch carillonneur for the City of Amsterdam, which has employed carillonneurs to perform at the prestigious Old Church since 1537.  In 1984 he joined the faculty of the Netherlands Carillon school and from 1987-1990 he taught at the Scandinavian Carillon School in Copenhagen.  In 1980 Fair gained playing awards in France and The Netherlands and in 1988 he received the Berkeley Medal for distinguished service to the carillon art.  He has presented workshops and guest recitals in nearly all the countries having carillons, including Australia and Japan.  During the 1998-99 academic year he served as acting carillonneur for the University of Michigan.  During this period the new carillon position at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music was announced, to which Fair was appointed starting September 1, 1999. Todd Fair teaches Understanding Music, a music appreciation course.

Ramon Kireilis
Professor, DMA, Foundations
TRVH 309 | 303.871.6371
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Dr. Kireilis is principal clarinet of the Colorado Springs Symphony. He recorded his CD, American Clarinet, with the Da Vinci String Quartet. Kireilis also has recorded for Spectrum and Music Heritage Society. Dr. Kireilis founded the International Clarinet Competition and the International Clarinet Society. He holds music degrees from the University of Michigan and North Texas University, where he played with the legendary One O'Clock jazz band for five years.

Other faculty that contribute to the upper division curriculum

Malcolm Lynn Baker
Associate Professor, MM
TRVH 335 | 303.871.6997
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Saxophone, Professor Baker is director of the Jazz Studies and Commercial Music Program, and directs the Lamont Jazz Orchestra.  He also teaches Jazz History and Jazz Improvisation and coaches jazz combos.

Richard Slavich
Professor, MM
TRVH 311 | 303.871.6953
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Strings Department

Richard Slavich, professor, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in history from Stanford University and received a bachelor and master of music from Indiana University. Director of the Cello and Chamber Music Programs, Professor Slavich teaches  three upper divisional music history courses: History of Chamber Music, Beethoven, and Bach.

MUSIC LIBRARY FACULTY

The Lamont School of Music Library at the University of Denver, located in the School of Music's Trevorrow Hall, is a branch of the University of Denver's library system.  In addition to books, periodicals, and scores, the facility offers multimedia materials in a variety of formats. 

Suzanne L. Moulton - Gertig
Professor, MA, MLS
TRVH 440A
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Moulton - Gertig received a bachelor of music education magna cum laude from James Madison University, a master of library science, and a master of arts in musicology, both from Kent State University. Professor Gertig joined the faculty of the University of Denver in 1985. She is the head of the music library, teaches Introduction to Graduate Studies, topics in music history and studio harp. Moulton-Gertig has served as editor of Ars Musica Denver and The American Harp Journal.

She has published numerous articles and reviews in musicology, harp, and library science journals, as well as articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, revised edition and Women in Music since 1900: An Encyclopedia. She has given invited papers and presentations both nationally and nternationally.

Ms. Moulton - Gertig has biographical entries in various publications, including International Who's Who in Music, Who's Who in American Music, and Dictionary of International Biography. She serves as the Director of the Reznicek Society, which is dedicated to reviving the music of Emil N. von Reznicek and other forgotten late-19th century composers.