faculty interest : music

faculty interest info : music

James Borders received his doctorate in historical musicology from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on medieval vocal music, particularly the development of plainchant. His edition of 11th-century chants from the northern Italian abbey of Nonantola was published by A-R Editions. Besides chant, he has an abiding interest in rock and contemporary popular music. Borders has received a Fulbright award for study in northern Italy and major research grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He currently serves as Associate Dean (for graduate studies).

Louise K. Stein is an authority on Spanish music and a specialist on European and colonial Latin American music of the late Renaissance and Baroque eras, with particular emphasis on theater music and opera. She holds a B.Mus. from Oberlin Conservatory and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Before teaching at Michigan she was on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1998 she taught at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. She has been a recipient of a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies facilitating the completion of her first book Songs of Mortals, Dialogues of the Gods: Music and Theatre in 17th-Century Spain (Oxford University Press), which was awarded a publication subvention from the American Musicological Society and the1995 First Book Prize from the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. Her second book, a revision and second edition of Howard Mayer Brown's Music in the Renaissance, was published by Prentice-Hall, Inc, in 1998. She has contributed essays, articles, and book chapters to American and European publications and has delivered papers and lectures at universities in Mexico and Spain, several for the American Musicological Society, the Modern Language Association, the Royal Musical Association, and the International Musicological Society. Collaboration with performing musicians is important in her work with Hispanic music and baroque opera: Her collaboration with Mary Spingfels and Chicago's Newberry Consort resulted in ¡Ay amor!, a recording of Spanish theatrical songs released by Harmonia Mundi. She is currently on the board of directors of the Centre Internatcional de Musica Antiga, Barcelona. She is musicological collaborator on several recording and performance projects with Jordi Savall and Montserrat Figueras, and is artistic advisor to The Harp Consort's productions of the first New World opera, La púrpura de la rosa. The BMG/Deutsche Harmonia Mundi recording of this work is based upon her research and new performing edition of the score. In 1996 the American Musicological Society recognized her collaboration with Andrew Lawrence-King by awarding them the Noah Greenberg Award for "distinguished contribution to the study and performance of early music."

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