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| Musicology Faculty Jan Herlinger | |||
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Jan Herlinger is Derryl and Helen Haymon Professor of Music, emeritus, at Louisiana State University. He holds the Ph.D. degree in musicology from the University of Chicago; the M.A. in composition and the A.B. in music from Washington University in St. Louis; and the Reifeprüfung diploma in flute from the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Herlinger is internationally recognized as an authority on music and music theory of the Middle Ages but has a strong second interest in music of the twentieth century. He has edited and translated treatises of Marchetto of Padua and Prosdocimo de' Beldomandi; has published essays in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music Theory Spectrum, Acta Musicologica, Il saggiatore musicale, Philomusica online, and several scholarly collections; and is a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Cambridge History of Music Theory, and Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages.
Herlinger has been a member of the Project Committee of the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML) since its inception in 1990. He directed LSU's TML subcenter, one of only six such subcenters worldwide, until his retirement in 2010. Herlinger has participated at high levels in national and international scholarly and professional societies. He served as Secretary of the American Musicological Society, and served as Review Editor of its Journal, 1990-92, and as a member of its Program Committee, 1988-90 (chair, 1989). He served the College Music Society as Board Member for Musicology, chair of its Program and Publications Committees, and as Editor-in-Chief of the Society's journal, College Music Symposium. He served on the Board of the International Machaut Society, 1996-99.
Contact through email: janh@lsu.edu
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