MUSICOLOGY FACULTY
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Michael Broyles
Lisa Jenkins
Marica S. Tacconi
Charles Youmans
Michael Broyles is Distinguished Professor Music, Professor of American History, and Fellow of the Institute for Arts and Humanities at Penn State. He is the author of six books, Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music (Yale University Press, 2004)“Music of the Highest Class”: Elitism and Populism in Antebellum Boston (Yale University Press, 1992), A Yankee Musician in Europe: the 1837 Journals of Lowell Mason (UMI Research Press, 1990), The Emergence and Evolution of Beethoven’s Heroic Style (Excelsior Press [Gordon and Breach], 1987), and, with Denise Von Glahn of Florida State University, a critical edition of Leo Ornstein's Quintette for Piano and Strings, for the series Music in the United States of America, (MUSA, 2005) and a biography, Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices (Indiana University Press, 2007). He has published many articles, in journals such as Musical Quarterly, American Music, Nineteenth-Century Music, Music Review, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Journal of the Society for American Music,as well as four in The Journal of the American Musicological Society, and has contributed chapters to several other books. His primary research interests are the classic era, particularly Beethoven, and American music. He is active in professional societies and is currently President of the Society for American Music. His current scholarly work focuses on the role of music in American culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Broyles has an M. M. in music theory and a Ph. D. in musicology from the University of Texas at Austin, and he has received numerous awards, including two National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships.
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Lisa Jenkins teaches undergraduate world music. She holds a B.A. in Music from Penn State, a M.A. in Musicology from the University of Michigan and is currently completing her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation, "Celtic Connections: Celticism and the Impact of Globalization on Contemporary Scottish Music and Culture," examines Celtic music in light of the new global aesthetic and describes its impact on local culture in Scotland. Her work is based on research at the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh, Scotland as well as fieldwork focusing on the annual Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, Scotland. She has presented papers at conferences in the United States and Canada. Her performing experiences in world music include Highland bagpipes, bodhran, Javanese gamelan, ko-tsuzumi and taiko drumming. Further research interests include Japanese music, globalization, and folk music revivals.
Marica S. Tacconi is Associate Professor of Musicology and Executive Director of the Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities. She joined the School of Music faculty in 1998 and teaches undergraduate and graduate music history. A native of central Italy, she holds a B.A. from Williams College and a Ph.D. in musicology from Yale University.
Tacconi's dissertation, Liturgy and Chant at the Cathedral of Florence: A Survey of the Pre-Tridentine Sources (Tenth-Sixteenth Centuries), is a broadly interdisciplinary study of more than seventy liturgical manuscripts. It is based on two years of research in Florence, supported by Yale University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Her dissertation received a 1997-98 AMS 50 Fellowship Award from the American Musicological Society.
Tacconi's research interests extend beyond music history to include the art, culture, and politics of medieval and Renaissance Italy. In 1997 she co-organized a manuscript exhibition at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana of Florence (I libri del Duomo di Firenze. Codici liturgici e Biblioteca di Santa Maria del Fiore, secoli XI-XVI), for which she was also the co-editor of the catalogue. She has presented papers at conferences in the United States, Italy, England, Denmark, and Belgium and is the author of numerous articles, essays and catalogue entries.
Tacconi was the recipient of a 2002-03 Villa I Tatti post-doctoral fellowship from the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. During her year in residence in Florence, she worked toward the completion of a monograph, Cathedral and Civic Ritual in Late Medieval and Renaissance Florence: The Service Books of Santa Maria del Fiore (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
In 2001 she received a Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching from the College of Arts and Architecture. Also a performer, she has appeared as both pianist and harpsichordist and as director of several early music ensembles.
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Charles Youmans teaches undergraduate and graduate music history. Before joining the School of Music faculty in 1999, he taught for three years at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.
Youmans's research deals with musical aesthetics in late nineteenth-century Germany and Austria. His book Richard Strauss's Orchestral Music and the German Intellectual Tradition (Indiana University Press, 2005), examines the influence of Goethe, Wagner, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche on the music and programs of Strauss's tone poems. Further research interests include musical hermeneutics, Gustav Mahler, and the reception of Eduard Hanslick's formalism. Articles by Youmans have appeared in Nineteenth-Century Music, The Musical Quarterly, the Journal of Musicology, and elsewhere. He has presented papers at conferences in the United States and Germany.
Trained as a classical guitarist, Youmans has studied interpretation with John Sutherland, Christopher Parkening, and David Russell. He holds B.M. and M.M. degrees in guitar performance from the University of Georgia, and the A.M. and Ph.D. in musicology from Duke University.
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