Paul Christiansen
Paul Christiansen is Assistant Professor of Music at the
University of Southern Maine.
Courses he has offered include Twentieth-Century Music, Analytical Techniques for Twentieth-Century Music, Classical and Romantic Music, World Music, History of Rock Music, Sight Singing and Ear Training IV, Bibliography and Research in Music, and Seminar in Music History. In Summer 2007, he co-taught a culture and history course in the Czech Republic. Before coming to USM, he taught at the University of California, Davis and Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Christiansen has received various research grants and fellowships, including a Fulbright full grant, which allowed him to conduct archival research in the Czech Republic. Christiansen’s areas of research interest are Czech music (primarily focusing on Janáček and speech melody), Haydn, rock music, and the use of music in political advertisements. His work has appeared in New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Plainsong and Medieval Music, MLA Notes, Echo: A Music-Centered Journal, Journal of Musicological Research, and Nineteenth-Century Music.
In 2004, in commemoration of the Janáček jubilee year, Christiansen gave commentary for BBC 3 Radio and for National Czech Radio Prague, and he has presented his research at numerous international conferences on three continents. In November 2008 he will participate in a panel on music covers for the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory in Nashville, TN. A member of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, he is currently part of a team of musicologists who are working, with the financial support of the Czech Science Foundation, on the establishment of a Center for Research on the life and works of 20th-century Czech composer Alois Hába. Most recently, he has been writing articles on Orientalism in Haydn’s string quartets and on the voice of authority in the music and texts of Steely Dan.
Christiansen was awarded a B.A. degree cum laude in Communication Studies/Media (television production) from California State University, Sacramento, and undertook additional study at the University of California, Berkeley (music) and Harvard University (Czech language) before earning a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, Davis in 2002.
Contact:
Paul Christiansen
University of Southern Maine School
of Music
37 College Avenue
Gorham, ME 04038
207-780-5382
pchristiansen@usm.maine.edu
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