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James Parsons Curriculum Vitae JAMES PARSONS CURRICULUM VITAE *The Music Department at Missouri State University uses a 1-5 rating system to deter­ mine the quality of an applicant's tenure and promotion credentials, with 1 the highest number 5 the lowest. All ofthe items I preface with an asterisk below are level-1 activi­ ties. Unlike other MSU departments, Music does not mandate a set number of activities in any level for promotion to associate or full professor. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC, SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI Professor of Music History, 2005 to present Associate Professor of Music History, 2000-2005 Assistant Professor of Music History, 1995-2000 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History and Theory, 1992-1995 RESEARCH INTERESTS • The German Lied, or art song: eighteenth-twentieth centuries • Beethoven: Ninth Symphony, music and philosophy, Lieder • Music and German Enlightenment philosophy • Friedrich Schiller and music • Mozart reception history, Requiem, and Die Zauberflote • Hanns Eisler: Lieder, Hollywooder Liederbuch and Composing for Films, written with Theodor W. Adorno EDUCATION PhD, University of North Texas, music history; cognate, music theory, 1992. Disserta­ tion: Ode to the Ninth: The Poetic and Musical Tradition Behind the Finale of Bee­ thoven's Choral Symphony. 479 pages, 9 musical examples, 3 illustrations, 4 appen­ dices with music, bibliography of 249 titles Bachelor of Music, Florida State University, music history, 1977 FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS (international, national) * NEH Summer Seminar, Stanford University, directed by Russell A. Berman, "German Exile Culture in California: European Traditions and American Modernity." In sup­ port of book-in-progress, Twentieth-Century German Song: "Where we have not yet been" [hereafter TCGS, for Cambridge University Press]. 25 June-3 August 2007 James Parsons Curriculum Vitae. PSIP Award application, page 2 * Fellow, Tenth Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University, directed by Peter Hayes. Summer 2005 * Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, Fulbright Scholar Exchange, for residency in Berlin. Sponsor: Professor Hermann Danuser, Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar, Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin. Fall2002 * National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2002 * Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange [DAAD]). "Study Visit Research Grant for Faculty" in support of research, Berlin State Library, two chapters and introduction for The Cambridge Companion to the Lied (see be­ low). June 2000 FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS (institutional) · * Sabbatical Leave. For Beethoven essay. Spring 2014 * Summer Faculty Fellowship. '"Suchend uns selbst und die Heimat': Ernst Krenek's Reisebuch aus den osterreichischen Alpen," Austrian Studies (Summer 2010); com­ missioned essay. Summer 2010 *University Fellow in Research, Missouri State University. 2004-2007 *Faculty Research Grant, 2007, to produce CD recording for From Hearth to Heaven: Forty-Two Settings of Schiller's ''An die Freude." Under contract for A-R Editions, Madison, WI. Facsimile musical edition with commentary and CD recording of the more than forty musical settings of Schiller's 1785 poem "An die Freude" composed before Beethoven's 1824 Ninth Symphony * Summer Faculty Fellowship. For CD recording for From Hearth to Heaven. 2005. Project completed. * Sabbatical Leave. In support of TCGS. Spring 2002 * Faculty Research Grant. In support of TCGS. 2002 * Summer Faculty Fellowship. In support of two chapters, introduction, chronology, and bibliography for The Cambridge Companion to the Lied (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). 2000 AWARDS AND HONORS * Invited to serve as external evaluator, PhD dissertation, German Studies, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom), 2013-2014. Viva voce examination, April 2014. James Parsons Curriculum Vitae. PSIP Award application. page 3 *Missouri State University Foundation Award in Research, 2011. University-wide com­ petitive award, one of two conferred 2011 *University Research Awards, Missouri State University (one of four conferred, Univer­ sity wide), 2006 and 2003 * Served by invitation as a panelist-reviewer for the National Endowment for the Hu­ manities of 46 music applications. Washington, DC. August 2004 College of Arts and Letters Faculty Research Awards, Missouri State University, 2001, 1999, and 1997 College of Arts and Letters Faculty Teaching Award, Missouri State University, 2000 BOOK *Cambridge Companion to the Lied, edited by James Parsons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. http:/ /VI'V>w.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052180o277 • First volume to cover systematically all aspects of the modern German Lied from 1730s to mid 20th century. Responsible for: o volume editing o selection of contributing authors o compiling chronology relating German Lied to world events from 1729 to 2002 9 pp. xv-xxxi) o assembling "Guide to further reading" (pp. 369-382) containing over 300 biblio­ graphic citations o writing three essays: • Introduction: "Why the Lied?," pp. 3-11 • Chapter 2: "The Eighteenth-Century Lied," pp. 35-62 • Chapter 13: "The Lied in the Modern Age: to Mid Century," pp. 273-298 o index. RESEARCH ARTICLES (PEER REVIEW) "Hanns Eisler's Hollywooder Liederbuch as 'Disrupted Language, Disrupted Culture'." Commissioned essay for Edinburgh German Yearbook, vol. 7. In progress; submis­ sion of first draft due January 2014. * "Hanns Eisler's Hollywooder Liederbuch and "the new stuff of life," in The Impact of Nazism on Musical Development in the 20th Century, ed. Erik Levi. Vienna: Bohlau, 2013. * "The Musical Poetics of Modernity: the Choral Finale of Beethoven and Schiller's Ninth," in Modernity from Schiller to the Frankfurt School, ed. Jerome Carroll, Steve Giles and Maike Oergel (Bern: Peter Lang, 2011). 93-113. James Parsons Curriculum Vitae. PSIP Award application. page 4 * '"Suchend uns selbst und die Heimat' [Searching for Self and Homeland]: Ernst Krenek's Reisebuch aus den osterreichischen Alpen," Austrian Studies (Summer 2010 [published September 2011]), 18, 39-56. * "Is there room in the musical museum for the early Lied and Singspiel?" Essay exam­ ines the 2009 publication of an edition of Johann Friedrich Reichardt's 1789 Sing­ spiel Claudine von Villa Bella and two volumes of Lieder by C. P. E. Bach. Early Mu­ sic (November 2010 [Oxford University Press]), 38/4, 608-610. * "The exile's intellectual mission": Adorno and Eisler's Composing for the Films," Telos (Winter 2009) 149, 52-68. * Invited review-article, first six CD recordings of "Franz Schubert (1797-1828), The Complete Songs," Hyperion Records (40 compact discs), Nineteenth-Century Music Review (December 2008), 5/2, 123-129. *"Confusing Object and Subject: Mozart and Siissmayr's Requiem K626," in Mozart­ Eine Herausforderung filr Literatur und Denken, Mozart-a Challenge for Litera­ ture and Thought, ed. Rudiger Gomer, Jarhbuch filr Internationale Germanistik, vol. 89. Bern and Berlin: Peter Lang, 2007. 151-175. * '"So much wealth in such simple trappings,"' Early Music (November 2007), 35/4, 671-674 (on eighteenth-century German song). * "At Home with German Romantic Song," in Companion to European Romanticism, ed. Michael Ferber. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. 538-551. *"Is there a Sturm und Drang Lied Tradition? The Case of Schiller's 'An die Freude'," in Michaelsteiner Konferenzbericht 65: Sturm und Drang in Literatur und Musik, ed. Bert Siegmund. Diissel: Janos Stekovics, 2004. 175-192. * "The Musician's 'North Star': the Lied in Johann Friedrich Reichardt's Musical Aes­ thetics and Compositional Practice," in Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814): Zwischen Anpassung und Provokation [Between Accommodation and Provocation: Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814)]. Halle, Germany: Handel-Haus and Martin­ Luther University, 2004. 195-206. *'"My song the midnight raven has outwing'd': Schubert's 'Der Wanderer' (D. 649)," in Music and Literature in German Romanticism, ed. Siobhan Donovan and Robin El­ liott. Columbia, SC: Camden House 2004. 165-182. * '"Deine Zauber binden wieder': Beethoven, Schiller, and the Joyous Reconciliation of Opposites," Beethoven Forum (2002) 9/1, 1-53. (Champagne-Urbana, Illinois: Uni­ versity of Illinois Press). * Commissioned article-review, The Journal of the American Musicological Society 54/3 (2001), 651-61, of Lawrence Kramer, Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Brian Newbould, ed., Schubert Studies (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998). James Parsons Curriculum Vitae, PSIP Award application, page 5 * "'Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell': Theories of Unity and Disunity in Late Beethoven." Music Analysis: 18/1 (1999), 127-142. BOOK REVIEWS (by invitation) *Eighteenth-Century Music 9/2 (March, 2012) 142-44; of Friihe Schiller-Vertonungen bis 1825. Denkmaler der Musik in Baden-Wurttemberg, 18. Ed. by Georg Gunther. Munich: Strube, 2005. *Music & Letters 92/1 (February 2011) 132-134 [Oxford University Press]; of Marjorie W. Hirsch, Romantic Lieder and the Search for Lost Paradise (Cambridge University Press, 2007). *The Journal of Film Music 3/1 (2010), 102-105; of Theodor W. Adorno and Hanns Eisler. Komposition filr den Film: Mit einem Nachwort von Johannes C. Gall und einer DVD "Hanns Eislers Rockefeller-Filmmusik-Project 1940-1942," im Auftrag der Internationalen Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft. Ed. Johannes C. Gall: Frankfurt:
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