Faculty Experts- Music
Name: Richard Agee
(Academic Chair 2009-10)
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6559
E-mail: ragee@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: A.B., University of California-Berkeley 1976; M.F.A., Princeton Univeristy 1978; Ph.D., Princeton University
1982
Came to CC in: 1982
Courses taught at CC: Introduction to Music; Diatonic and Chromatic Harmony; Introduction to Counterpoint; Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Music History; Opera; The Operas of Verdi; Wagner's Ring; Splendor of the Baroque; From Mozart to Mahler-A History of the Symphony; Beethoven, or dum-dum-dum-DUMMM
Areas of expertise: Opera; Renaissance music biography; medieval music; Baroque music; Patronage of music in the Renaissaunce
Major publications: "Graduals of the Roman Rite Published in Italy, 1499-1653"; "Idiological Clashes in a Cinquecento Edition of Plainchant" (forthcoming); "Alessandro Gardano"; "Angelo Gardano"; "Paolo Ferrarese"; The Gardano Music Printing Firms; Costanzo Festa's Counterpoints on a Cantus Firmus; "Costanzo Festa's Gradus ad Parnassum", Early Mucis History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music; "Ruberto Strozzi and the Early Madrigal"
Name: Ofer Ben-Amots
(Associate Academic Chair 2009-10)
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6555
E-mail: obenamots@ColoradoCollege.edu
Came to CC in: 1994
Courses taught at CC: Music Composition; Orchestration; Theory; Music at the Computer; Jewish Music
Areas of expertise: 20th century music; Jewish music, any Jewish or Israel related topic, especially history and politics of the Middle East
Major publications: Shofar, Quarterly on Jewish music, University of Nebraska Press; George Crumb and the Alchemy of Sound, The Colorado College Music Press.
Name: Nilanjana Bhattacharjya
Title: Assistant Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6558
E-mail:nbhattacharjya@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A., Wellesley College, 1996; M.A., Cornell University, 1999; Ph.D.
Cornell University, 2006
Came to CC in: 2004
Courses taught at CC:American Popular Music, Global Pop, South Asian and Middle Eastern Popular Music, Pre-Theory, Music and Gender, From Bombay to Bollywood, Popular Music of South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa
Areas of expertise: South Asian popular music, popular Hindi films (Bollywood), South Asian diaspora, world music industry, music and globalization, ethnomusicology, music and cultural studies
Major publications: "Popular Hindi Film Song Sequences Set in the Indian Diaspora and the Negotiating of Indian Identity" -- article in Asian Music 40.1 (2008); with Monika Mehta, "From Bombay to Bollywood: Tracking Musical and Cinematic Tours" -- chapter in edited collection Global Bollywood, Wesleyan University Press (2008)
Name: Michael Grace
Title: Professor Music
Office phone: (719) 389-6546
E-mail: mgrace@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. Colorado College; M.A. Colorado College; Ph.D. Yale Univeristy
Came to CC in: 1967
Courses taught at CC: All music history courses: Mozart, contemporary music, Renaissance culture, director, the Collegium Musicum
Areas of expertise: Any area of music history, especially since 1750. Mozart music and visual arts, particularly piano music and painting
Major publications: George Crumb and the Alchemy of Sound - particularly Crumb's music and the visual arts
Name: Carola Schorman
Title: Visiting professor of musicology
Office phone: (719) 389-6896
E-mail: schorman@uni-lueneburg.de
Education: Ph.D. University of Cologne, Germany, 1981
Came to CC: 2000
Courses taught at CC: Music in Cuba
Areas of expertise: Music in Cuba and the Southwest (line dancing included)
Major publications: Music of the World: Cuba; Music of the world: American Southwest
Pertinent biographical information: Has been teaching ethno-musicology at the University of Lueneburg, Germany since 1991; guest lectured at universities in Norway, Slovakia and Austria, Vietnam, Australia, Great Britain; current research projects are traveling German musicians and opera troupes in the American Southwest from 1850 to 1910, and American country music in northern Germany