Douglass Seaton: An Appreciation

  • Jennifer L. Hund Purdue University
Keywords: Douglass Seaton

Abstract

This issue of the Journal of Music History Pedagogy honors Douglass Seaton, Warren D. Allen Professor of Music at The Florida State University (FSU), for his long service to musicology and to the pedagogy of music history. In these articles, we propose creative solutions to pedagogical issues, recognizing in the process that the skills needed to arrive at these solutions were nurtured by Douglass during our time at FSU. This issue also marks Douglass Seaton’s first as Reviews Editor for this journal.

Author Biography

Jennifer L. Hund, Purdue University
Jennifer L. Hund, Assistant Professor of Music at Purdue University, earned her BM in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, her MM in Musicology from Florida State University, and her PhD in Musicology at Indiana University-Bloomington, with her dissertation “The Proposta e Risposta Madrigal, Dialogue, Cultural Discourse, and the Issue of Imitatio†(2007). She has presented her research at conferences of the American Musicological Society, Renaissance Society of America, and College Music Society, and is actively creating educational materials for teaching music to the general student. Her most recent publication is Study Guide for A Concise History of Western Music, co-authored with J. Peter Burkholder (W. W. Norton, 2010). Her article “Writing about Music in Large Music Appreciation Classrooms†appeared in the Journal of Music History Pedagogy 2, no. 2 (2012).
Published
2014-01-21