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J. Peter Burkholder

• Distinguished Professor of Music, Jacobs School of Music
• Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Sciences

Education:

• Ph.D. , University of Chicago, 1983
• M.A. , University of Chicago, 1980
• A.B. , Earlham College, 1975

Background:

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J. Peter Burkholder's research interests include twentieth-century music, Charles Ives, musical borrowing, American music, musical meaning, and analysis.

He is the author of Charles Ives: The Ideas Behind the Music and All Made of Tunes: Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing and co-author of A History of Western Music, 8th ed., with Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca, and of Norton Anthology of Western Music, 6th ed., with Claude V. Palisca.

He is the editor of Charles Ives and His World, co-editor of Charles Ives and the Classical Tradition, and has articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed., Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, 19th-Century Music, Musical Quarterly, Notes, Music Theory Spectrum, College Music Symposium, and others.

Burkholder's teaching publications include Basic Concepts of Music and Study and Listening Guide for A History of Western Music and Norton Anthology of Western Music. He has written liner notes for Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, and Centaur. He has received awards from the American Musicological Society (Alfred Einstein Award), Society for American Music (Irving Lowens Award), and ASCAP (ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award), as well as Danforth, Rockefeller, and American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships.

He is the president of The Charles Ives Society and has served as president, vice-president, and director-at-large of the American Musicological Society, and as a board member of the College Music Society.