Faculty

Associate Professor of Music
Music Studios 306
860-685-2604

Associate Professor, Medieval Studies
860-685-2604

Chair, Music

jalden01@wesleyan.edu

BMU Manchester University
MMU King's College
PHD University of North Carolina

MUSC103 - 01
Materials and Design

MUSC103 - 02
Materials and Design

MUSC202 - 01
Theory and Analysis

MUSC438 - 01
Collegium Musicum

Office Hours:
M/W, 2:40-4pm

Lab URL:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/music/ensembles/collegium/

BA Goddard College
MA Wesleyan University

MUSC445 - 01
West African Music & Cultr-Beg

MUSC447 - 01
W. African Music & Culture-Adv

MUSC446 - 01
W. African Music & Culture-Int

MUSC447 - 01
W. African Music & Culture-Adv

Personal Homepage:
aadzenyah.web.wesleyan.edu

Office Hours:
Monday/Wednesday: 12:30 - 2:30 pm Tuesday/Thursday : 2:30 - 4:30 pm

Research Interests:
I specialize in the music of Ghana, spanning the Fanti, Volta, Ashanti, Northern Ghana, Ga, and Adambe regions. I am also familiar with the Yoruba and Ijo music of Nigeria and the music of Togo. I am interested in the social/recreational, religious/ceremonial, and warrior musics. Over my forty years at Wesleyan, I have taught and continue to teach performing groups of students. The musical pieces I teach include Gahu, Kumdum, Kpanlogo, Akom, Bamaya, Damba Takai, Aitsiagbekor, Adowa, Kete, Bawa, Bima, Gota, Nagala, Tokoe, Patsa, Sikyi, Bobobo, Asaadua, Apreda, Ntwese, Asafo, Adgzobo, and many others.

Scholarly Keywords:
West African Music and Culture; master drummer of Ghanaian and neighboring countries' dance musics;

Academic Associations:
Former member of AAUP

Publications:
http://aadzenyah.web.wesleyan.edu/cv.html#pub

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music
Music Studios 313
860-685-2577

balu@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Madras
MA University of Madras
MPHIL University of Madras

MUSC110 - 01
Intro to South Indian Music

MUSC430 - 01
South Indian Voice-Beginning

Office Hours:
Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00-12:00 noon

MUSC270 - 01
Mus Of Coltrane, Mingus & Cole

MUSC459 - 01
Materials & Principles Jazz Im

Personal Homepage:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/music/braxton

Professor of Music
Music Studios 310
860-685-2578

John Spencer Camp Professor of Music

nbruce@wesleyan.edu

BMU University of Alabama
DMU University of Illinois Urbana
MAA Wesleyan University
MMU University of Illinois Urbana

MUSC274 - 01
Hymnody In US Before Civil War

MUSC203 - 01
Chromatic Harmony

MUSC300 - 02
Seminar for Music Majors

Professor of Music
Music Studios 201
860-685-2579

echarry@wesleyan.edu

BMU New England Conservatory of Mu
MFA Princeton University
MMU New England Conservatory of Mu
PHD Princeton University

MUSC295 - 01
Global Hip-Hop

MUSC300 - 01
Seminar for Music Majors

ARTS617 - 01
Music & New York, 1950-70

MUSC108 - 01
History of Rock and r&b

MUSC275 - 01
Music and Downtown New York

Personal Homepage:
http://echarry.blogs.wesleyan.edu/

Scholarly Keywords:
Music of Africa, Improvisation, Music in the Americas.

Publications:
http://echarry.blogs.wesleyan.edu/my-publications/

MA Wesleyan University
INF

University Organist
Chapel 015
860-685-2282

Artist-in-Residence, Music
860-685-2282

rebrecht@wesleyan.edu

BM Southern Methodist University
MM Yale University

MUSC243 - 01
Music of the 19th Cent.

MUSC441 - 01
Pipe Organ:Theory and Practice

MUSC441 - 01
Pipe Organ:Theory and Practice

BM University of Western Australi
MA Wesleyan University
PHD Wesleyan University

Artist in Residence, Music
Music Studios 315
860-685-2603

iharjito@wesleyan.edu

MA Akademi Seni Karavitan

MUSC451 - 01
Javanese Gamelan--Beginners

MUSC452 - 01
Javanese Gamelan--Advanced

Office Hours:
Tuesday and Thursday 9:15-10:00

BA Wesleyan University
MA Wesleyan University

MUSC210 - 01
Theory of Jazz Improvisation

MUSC457 - 01
Jazz Orchestra I

MUSC456 - 01
Jazz Improvisation Performance

MUSC458 - 01
Jazz Orchestra II

Personal Homepage:
http://jhoggard.web.wesleyan.edu

Lab URL:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/music/jazz_orchestra/

BM Oberlin College
BM Oberlin College
MM Yale University

BM Manhattan School Music
MM Peabody Institute
MS Drexel University

BA Wesleyan University
MFA Mills College

MUSC223 - 01
Music, Recording, & Sound Desi

MUSC510 - 01
World Music Studies

MUSC530 - 01
Colloquium

MUSC220 - 01
Com, Perf, & Listening to Exp

MUSC509 - 01
Special Studies in Comtemp Mus

MUSC530 - 01
Colloquium

Office Hours:
Wednesday 3:00 - 4:15 p.m.

Associate Professor of Music
Music Studios 307
860-685-2588

ymalin@wesleyan.edu

BA Harvard University
PHD University of Chicago

Research Interests:
Yonatan Malin is Associate Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. His areas of research include the German Lied, music-text relations, theories of rhythm and meter, and liturgical music in Jewish traditions. His book, Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied, was published in 2010 in the series Oxford Studies in Music Theory, and he has published articles in the journals Music Analysis and Music Theory Spectrum. Professor Malin is editor of Music Theory Online - a Journal of the Society for Music Theory.

Publications:
http://works.bepress.com/ymalin/

BM University of Wisconsin
MA New York University
PHD New York University

MUSC109 - 01
Intro To Experimental Music

MUSC508 - 01
Grad Seminar In Composition

MUSC201 - 01
Tonal Harmony

MUSC464 - 01
Laptop Ensemble

Office Hours:
Tuesday 3:30-5:00 p.m. or by appointment

BA Wesleyan University

MUSC448 - 01
Ebony Singers: Gospel Music

MUSC448 - 01
Ebony Singers: Gospel Music

Personal Homepage:
www.TheCitadelOfLove.org

BA Kalamazoo College
MFA California Institute of Arts
PHD Wesleyan University

MUSC110 - 01
Intro to South Indian Music

MUSC433 - 01
South Indian Music--Percussion

MUSC212 - 01
South Indian Music-SOLKATTU

MUSC433 - 01
South Indian Music--Percussion

Personal Homepage:
http://dpnelson.web.wesleyan.edu

Office Hours:
By Appointment

Research Interests:
I am interested in digitization of historic recordings of South Indian music, particularly video recordings when available. I am also undertaking a self-study of jazz harmony on the piano, a study that has gone on for the last two years.

Scholarly Keywords:
Music of South India, South Indian drumming

Publications:
http://dpnelson.web.wesleyan.edu/publications.html

BA
MM Ball State University
MM University Nthrn Iowa

MUSC436 - 01
Wesleyan Concert Choir

MUSC439 - 01
Wesleyan Orchestra

MUSC440 - 01
Conducting: Instrum. & Vocal

MUSC436 - 01
Wesleyan Concert Choir

MUSC439 - 01
Wesleyan Orchestra

Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music

Professor of Music
Music Studios 205
860-685-2606

mslobin@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Michigan
MA University of Michigan
PHD University of Michigan

MUSC251 - 01
The Study of Film Music

MUSC507 - 01
Practicing Ethnomusicology

MUSC121 - 01
Writing About Music

MUSC300 - 01
Seminar for Music Majors

Office Hours:
Fall 2012 Tuesday 10:30-12:00Wednesday 3:00 - 4:00 or by appointment

Research Interests:
music of afghanistan and central asia music of eastern european jews in europe and north america general theory of ethnomusicology ethnomusicology of film

Scholarly Keywords:
ethnomusicology

Leadership Positions:
former president, Society for Ethnomusicology, Society for Asian Music, former editor "Asian Music" journal

University Professor of Music
Music Studios 303
860-685-2599

sumarsam@wesleyan.edu

BA Akademi Seni Karavitan
MA Wesleyan University
PHD Cornell University

MUSC451 - 01
Javanese Gamelan--Beginners

MUSC452 - 01
Javanese Gamelan--Advanced

Office Hours:
Tuesday and Thursday 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Research Interests:
Recent research topic: Islam in Indonesian performing arts. Fortcoming book: JAVANESE GAMELAN AND THE WEST. University of Rochester Press, 2013.

Scholarly Keywords:
Indonesian music and theater, focusing on the performance, history and theory of gamelan and wayang.

Academic Associations:
Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Society for Asian Music (SAM) International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Koninklijk Instituut voor Tall., Land- En Volkenkunde (KITLV) Association for Asian Studies (AAS)

Lab URL:
http://gamelan.blogs.wesleyan.edu

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
Music Studios 307
860-685-2588

ywu@wesleyan.edu

BA National Taiwan University
MA SUNY at Buffalo
PHD SUNY at Buffalo

Office Hours:
Wednesday, 1-3pm

Research Interests:
Post-Tonal Voice Leading, Pitch Contour, Post-Tonal Counterpoint

Scholarly Keywords:
Music Theory

Associate Professor of Music
Music Studios 216
860-685-2582

Associate Professor, East Asian Studies
Music Studios 216
860-685-2582

szheng@wesleyan.edu

BA Central Conservatory of Music
MA New York University
PHD Wesleyan University

MUSC261 - 01
Music and Modernity

MUSC519 - 01
Current Issues/Ethnomusicology

BA Cornell University
MA Cornell University
MAA Wesleyan University

John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, Emeritus

alucier@wesleyan.edu

BA Yale University
MAA Wesleyan University
MFA Brandeis University

Personal Homepage:
http://alucier.web.wesleyan.edu

BA Wesleyan University
BS Juilliard School
MAA Wesleyan University
MS Juilliard School