Jan Herlinger
Musicology
Jan
Herlinger (Derryl and Helen Haymon Professor of Music). Herlinger is internationally
recognized as an authority on music and music theory of the Middle Ages.
He is the author of three books and numerous articles, and is a contributor
to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.), Medieval
Italy: An Encyclopedia, and the Cambridge History of Western Music
Theory. One reviewer called his book The Lucidarium of Marchetto
of Padua "an almost archetypal example of unpretentious and honest
scholarship"; another stated that "one can only hope that the precedent
he has set ... will be taken in the future as a model by all those who
publish medieval and renaissance music theory in translation." He has
frequently been invited to deliver lectures on topics in his field, and
held a guest lectureship at the University of Vienna in June 1992. Music
of the twentieth century is a strong secondary interest of Herlinger's.
Herlinger has been a member of the Project Committee of the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML) since its inception in 1990. This ongoing cooperative project has constructed a full text database available worldwide through the Internet for music theory in Latin from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries, and at present includes almost 700 texts comprising 5,000,000 words accompanied by over 4,000 graphics. Since 1992 he has directed LSU's TML subcenter, one of only six such subcenters worldwide. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Indiana University's Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature, the parent organization of TML.
Herlinger was recently elected to a third term as Secretary of the American Musicological Society, and served as Review Editor of its Journal, 1990-92; he was a member of the Society's Program Committee, 1988-90 (chairing the committee in 1989), and of its Council, 1985-87. He has served the College Music Society as Board Member for Musicology, Chair of the Program Committee, Chair of the Publications Committee, and as a member of several advisory boards. He was a member of the Board of the International Machaut Society, 1996-99.
Herlinger holds the Ph.D. degree in musicology from the University of Chicago; the M.A. in composition and A.B. in music from Washington University, St. Louis; and the Reifeprfung diploma in flute from the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He came to LSU in 1984, was promoted to Full Professor in 1990, was appointed Associate in Comparative Literature in 1995 (and Professor of Comparative Literature in 1999), and became Chair of the Academic Division of the School of Music in 1996. He was named the Derryl and Helen Haymon Professor of Music in 1999.
Jan Herlinger, Haymon Professor
School of Music
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504
Voice: 225/578-2660
Fax: 225/578-2562.
E-mail: janh@lsu.edu
