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Musicology
Our musicology faculty include internationally recognized scholars, prominent in their chosen fields. They share their research through conferences, publish books and articles, review books and music.
Musicology research specialties include:
- Sixteenth and seventeenth-century music and culture
- 19th-century biography, gender, compositional process and music reception; elocution
- American film music and 20th-century Russian music
- Popular music and participatory music cultures
- Jazz in New Orleans, music and place
Works by our faculty
![il secondo libro book cover](/sites/music.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-10/il%20secondo%20libro%20image.jpeg?h=460dae47&itok=RWDOWEqJ)
![Making Music in Selznick's Hollywood book cover](/sites/music.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-10/platte_book.jpeg?h=988a3089&itok=mslBohIr)
![The Elocutionists by Wilson-Kimber book cover](/sites/music.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-10/Wilson-Kimber_cover_0.png?h=22b05a86&itok=f1d7Kri7)
The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word
(2017) University of Illinois Press
![Mary, Music and Meditation book cover](/sites/music.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-10/51PhJi0iAzL.jpeg?h=2c1aec33&itok=xBMxNGoX)
Mary, Music, and Meditation: Sacred Conversations in Post-Tridentine Milan
(2013) Indiana University Press
![Nathan Platte book cover](/sites/music.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-10/41%2BkhF3-LTL_0.jpeg?h=f4993a4c&itok=df4up6wM)
![routledge book cover](/sites/music.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-10/routledge.jpeg?h=bc8d30c7&itok=Ouydcbef)
The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook
(2011) Routledge
Nathan Platte, Colin Roust, and James Wierzbicki
![Getz edition](/sites/music.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-10/Getz-edition.png?h=460dae47&itok=CBhil9s3)
![Music In The Collective Experience In Sixteenth-Century Milan](/sites/music.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-10/1411536-M.jpeg?h=0dc26756&itok=M79LlEXi)
Music In The Collective Experience In Sixteenth-Century Milan
2006 Ashgate Publishing Company
Musicology faculty
Zane Cupec, PhD
Title/Position
Musicology
Visiting Assistant Professor
![Portrait of Christine Getz](/sites/music.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-09/Christine-Getz.jpeg?h=73643384&itok=UaQFJW8-)
Christine Getz
Title/Position
Professor
Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Outreach and Engagement
![Portrait of Trevor Harvey](/sites/music.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-09/trevor-harvey.jpeg?h=48aca80d&itok=xt4uV5Cp)
Trevor Harvey
Title/Position
Musicology
Associate Professor of Instruction
![Portrait of Nathan Platte](/sites/music.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-09/Nathan%20Platte.png?h=3a8888ea&itok=Qo_E9P1v)
Nathan Platte
Title/Position
Musicology
Associate Professor
Musicology Area Head
![Portrait of Sarah Suhadolnik](/sites/music.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-09/SarahSuhadolnik.jpeg?h=5603a7f3&itok=hLkL8WAb)
Sarah Suhadolnik
Title/Position
Musicology
Assistant Professor of Instruction
![Portrait of Marian Wilson Kimber](/sites/music.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-09/MarianWilsonKimber.gif?h=45dda24d&itok=iEo0JOQx)
Marian Wilson Kimber
Title/Position
Musicology
Professor
Associate Director of Faculty Development; Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging