A Thank You to Our Writers

A thank you to our writers Tese remarkable biographies are a testament to the wonderfully warm, collegial relationships at IU Bloomington. Each profle within this publication was written by a colleague of the retiring faculty member. Each conveys beautifully the dedication, contributions, and spirit of the individual. Each displays an intimate knowledge of the faculty member’s body of work. And each reveals the depth of admiration these incredible scholars and teachers have inspired. I ofer my most sincere thanks to our writers for taking the time to craf these thoughtful and detailed biographies. You have done a great service to the IU Bloomington community in honoring the service of your friends. Lauren Robel Provost, Indiana University Bloomington Retiring Faculty / 1 HONORING J. Peter Burkholder James (Jim) Hengeveld Stuart Mufson Distinguished Professor of Music Senior Lecturer in Biology, College Professor of Astronomy, College of Arts (Musicology), Jacobs School of Music of Arts and Sciences and Sciences Cary A. Buzzelli Marjorie R. Hershey Jefrey Palmer Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Professor of Political Science, College Distinguished Professor and Class School of Education of Arts and Sciences of 1955 Professor of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences James Campbell Linda Hoke-Sinex Professor of Music (Woodwinds), Senior Lecturer in Psychological Philip Parnell Jacobs School of Music and Brain Sciences, College of Arts Associate Professor of International and Sciences Studies, Hamilton Lugar School Keith Clay of Global and International Studies Distinguished Professor of Biology, Mark Hood College of Arts and Sciences; Director Associate Professor of Music (Audio Andreas Poulimenos of IU Research and Teaching Preserve Engineering and Sound Production), Professor of Music (Voice), Jacobs School of Music Jacobs School of Music Lynda Fuller Clendenning Associate Librarian and Head of Larry Humes Elizabeth Raf Acquisitions, University Libraries Distinguished Professor of Speech Professor of Biology, College of Arts and Hearing Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences Haldan Cohn and Sciences Professor of Astronomy, College of Arts Kathleen Rowold and Sciences Charles (Chuck) Livingston Professor and Associate Dean, School Professor of Mathematics, College of Art, Architecture, and Design Edmund Cord of Arts and Sciences Professor of Music (Brass), Edward W. (Bill) Ruf Jacobs School of Music J. Scott Long Senior Lecturer in Biology, College Distinguished Professor and of Arts and Sciences Diana Ebling Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology and Physician and Medical Director, Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences John Schilb IU Health Center Professor and Culbertson Chair of Wendy Marencik Composition, English, College of Arts Ben Edmonds Clinical Assistant Professor and Sciences Clinical Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Curriculum and Instruction, of Education Russell J. Skiba School of Education Professor of Counseling and Educational Dale McFadden Psychology, School of Education Christine R. Farris Professor, Head of M.F.A. Acting and Professor of English, College of Arts Directing Programs and Associate Chair Eliot R. Smith and Sciences of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Distinguished Professor and Dance, College of Arts and Sciences Chancellor’s Professor of Psychological Jefrey Hass and Brain Sciences, College of Arts Professor of Music (Composition) Michael D. McGinnis and Sciences and Director of the Center for Electronic Professor of Political Science and Computer Music, Jacobs School and Associate Dean for Social Sciences of Music and Graduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences 2 / Indiana University Bloomington Michael Spiro Associate Professor of Music (Percussion), Jacobs School of Music Peggy A. Thoits Virginia L. Roberts Professor of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences Susan Vargo Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Communication, Professional, and Computer Skills, Kelley School of Business Antonio C. Vitti Professor of French and Italian, College of Arts and Sciences Marc Weiner Professor of Germanic Studies, College of Arts and Sciences Retiring Faculty / 3 4 / Indiana University Bloomington J. PETER BURKHOLDER When Distinguished Professor J. Peter for the articles “Music of the Americas and Burkholder joined the Indiana University Historical Narratives” and “The Twentieth faculty in 1988, having just earned tenure Century and the Orchestra as Museum.” at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Early on, he won the prestigious Alfred the musicology department was nestled in Einstein Award of the American Sycamore Hall and his now-legendary Musicological Society for “Johannes undergraduate survey of music history Martini and the Imitation Mass of the Late class met at 8 a.m. in the basement of the Fifteenth Century” (1986). Musical Arts Center. Remarkably, for In 2010, Peter became the youngest someone specializing in the oeuvre of person ever named an Honorary Member American composer Charles Ives and other of the American Musicological Society. By modern music—Peter studied composition then he had served the society for decades in addition to the history and theory of with dedication and good humor, including music at the University of Chicago—he as its vice president, president, and past chose to teach the Greeks-to-1750 segment president from 2002 to 2005. His local of the two-semester history (M401/402). colleagues will miss the levity he brings to Thomas J. Mathiesen, an expert in music our department meetings—and his delight of the ancients, taught the modern part, in reciting, now and again, this ditty ensuring that each of them would always (with footnote): remember what it felt like to be a student. The Lama Since then, Peter has given M401 “about Peter’s passion and talent for clear twenty-fve times” and the end date of the explanation impressed generations of The one-l lama, course has crept up from 1750 to 1800; students. Current colleagues Judah Cohen He’s a priest. Haydn and Mozart have become and Phil Ford both credit Peter with The two-l llama, early music. igniting their interest in the feld. Phil, now He’s a beast. In the 1980s, the idea of a canon, teaching M402, was a piano major here in And I will bet a body of music that every music student the late 1980s when he overslept the frst A silk pajama needed to know, was widespread. Nearly M401 exam. Running to Sycamore Hall, There isn’t any all students in the United States gained “all contrition and bed hair… I sat on the Three-l lllama.* their overview from a monumental but couch in his ofce and we talked about this —Ogden Nash notoriously dry textbook by Donald Jay and that, and by the end of our Grout (of Cornell University), later conversation I wanted to do well in the *The author’s attention has been called to a type expanded, updated, and revised by Claude class.” He refects, “I believe that our of confagration known as a three-alarmer. Pooh. V. Palisca (of Yale University). Peter got greatest infuences are those that model Peter has served the university in involved in the 1990s, creating study and a whole way of being. Peter had as many capacities, from associate dean of listening guides and updating the passionate a relationship to music as any the faculties and acting vice chancellor for accompanying volumes of music performer’s, but that passion was academic afairs, to department chair; yet anthologies and recordings, before taking expressed through scholarship and writing. working for and with students remained over the entire project himself, beginning Taking M401 with Peter gave me the idea always his highest priority. Thirty-six with the 7th edition of A History of that I could be that kind of person too.” dissertations came to fruition under his Western Music in 2005. Every edition The start-time of the course soon moved direction and he read many, many more. since has embraced a greater variety of to late morning. His students now populate the faculties of music and breathed life back into the Peter’s never-waning fascination with music departments all around the country. people who performed, heard, and paid for Charles Ives, whose music is chock full of He spearheaded the department’s it, not only those who created it. As the quotations from popular songs, band fundraising to ensure that musicology tapestry’s threads multiplied and tangled numbers, and much else, is refected not students will always be able to see over time, Peter only grew more certain only in his books and articles on Ives, but materials in archives and travel to that historical perspective made it in his general editorship of the online conferences. We are deeply grateful to him coherent: “As a rule, if something does not database Musical Borrowing and for all this, and for the many department make sense, there is a historical reason for Reworking: An annotated Bibliography, parties he and his husband, Doug it, and only knowing its history can explain now displaying over 2,000 entries. Like the McKinney, host. Their welcoming home it,” he sagely remarks in the preface to the massive History project, this is scholarship has been the heart of our department’s 9th edition. that serves others as much as Peter’s social life. Peter vows to keep it so for Publication of a 10th edition of the own interests. many years to come. History coincides with Peter’s retirement His work has been translated into this spring. This beautifully curated and Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Kristina Muxfeldt exquisitely illustrated story, still jam-packed and Spanish. Among his many honors are with information, is a pleasure to read. ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Awards Retiring Faculty / 5 CARY A. BUZZELLI “A gentleman and a scholar” is an accolade and Instruction in 2004. During his time originating in eighteenth-century England as chair, he particularly enjoyed mentoring to describe someone with courtly manners new and pre-tenured faculty. and an educated and inquisitive mind.

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