Degrees: PHD, 1968, Univ Michigan Ann Arbor; MA, 1964, Univ Michigan Ann Arbor; BMUS, 1962, Univ Michigan Ann Arbor

Bio:
Education and Degrees
Professional Positions
Honors and Awards
Publications: Books, including Large Critical Editions
Publications: Articles in Journals and Encyclopedias
Publications: Small Scholarly Editions
Publications: Reviews and Reports
Publications: Method Books and Arrangements
Papers, Lectures, and Other Professional Activity
Editorial Positions
Biographical Listings
Professional Memberships
Service to the American Musical Instrument Society
Service to the American Musicological Society (AMS)
Service to Hofstra University (a Selection)
Courses and Subjects Taught
Performance Activities (a Selection)

Education and Degrees

Ph.D. in Musicology, University of Michigan, December, 1968. Dissertation: "The Thorough-Bass in the Works of Gregor Aichinger (1564–1628)"
Study at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, 1966–67
M.A. in Musicology, University of Michigan, June, 1964. Thesis: "Thomas Simpson's Opusculum neuwer Pavanen, Galliarden, Couranten, unnd Volten (1610)."
Thesis included in "A Selective List of Masters' Theses in Musicology," compiled for the American Musicological Society by Dominique-René de Lerma (Bloomington, Ind.: Denia Press, 1970).
B.Mus. in Music Education (with high distinction), University of Michigan, June, 1962

Professional Positions

Associate Chairman, Department of Music, Hofstra University, 2006–08
Acting Chairman, Department of Music, Hofstra University, spring, 1999
Chairman, Department of Music, Hofstra University, 1994–95
Professor of Music, Hofstra University, 1981–
Associate Professor of Music, Hofstra University, 1975–81
Teaching Dean, Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (HCLAS), Hofstra University, 1975–79
Acting Chairman, Department of Music, Hofstra University, spring and summer, 1975
Assistant Professor of Music, Hofstra University, 1968–75
Teaching Fellow in Music Theory and Musicology, University of Michigan, 1965–66, 1967–68
Assistant to the Curator, Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, University of Michigan, 1962–66

Honors and Awards

National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Award, 1986–87
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, University of Maryland, June, 1985
Dean's Award for Excellence, HCLAS, Hofstra University, 1979
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1971
Predoctoral Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, 1967–68
Teaching Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1967–68
Fulbright Grant and Graduate Fellowship, Munich, Germany, 1966–67
Teaching Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1965–66
C. J. Hunt Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, 1964–65
Stanley Medal of the School of Music, University of Michigan, 1962
Phi Beta Kappa, 1961
Pi Kappa Lambda, 1960
General Scholarships of the University of Michigan, 1958–62
Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Honors, University of Michigan, 1958–62
Oreon E. Scott Freshman Prize, University of Michigan, 1958

Publications: Books, including Large Critical Editions

• Johann Herbeck, Selected German Works for Unaccompanied Men's Chorus, Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 48 (Middleton, Wis.: A-R Editions, 2008).
• The "Musica instrumentalis deudsch" of Martin Agricola: A Treatise on Musical Instruments, 1529 and 1545, Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
  Reviewed by Jeffrey Nussbaum in Historic Brass Society Newsletter 8 (1995)
  Reviewed by James L. Wallmann in The American Organist (February, 1991)
  Reviewed by Edgar Hunt in The Galpin Society Journal 48 (1995)
  Reviewed by Katherine Hogg in Brio 32 (1995)
• Gregor Aichinger, The Vocal Concertos, Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 54–55 (Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, Inc., 1986).
  Reviewed by Richard Charteris in Music & Letters (July, 1998) Reviewed by Horst Leuchtmann in Musik in Bayern 37 (1998)
• Bernhard Klingenstein, Rosetum Marianum (1604), Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, 24–25 (Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, Inc., 1977).
  Reviewed by John Hajdu in Notes (June, 1980) Reviewed by Horst Leuchtmann in Musik in Bayern 20 (1980)
• Gregor Aichinger, Cantiones ecclesiasticae (1607), Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 13 (Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, Inc., 1972).
  Reviewed by Denis Arnold in Music & Letters (April, 1979)

Publications: Articles in Journals and Encyclopedias (all refereed except AMIS Newsletter, which I edited in 1997 and 1999–2003)

• "Familiar Words about a Piano Manufacturer," Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society 37, no. 2 (summer 2008): 9–10.
• "Selected German Works for Unaccompanied Men's Chorus by Johann Herbeck of Vienna," Embellishments: A Newsletter about Recent Researches 34 (spring 2008): 1–2.
• The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Encyclopedia (New York, London: Routledge, 2007). "Martin Agricola," "The Fugger Family," "Othmar Luscinius," and "Sebastian Virdung,"
• "Harry Edward Freund's Great Square-Piano Bonfire: A Tale Told in the Press," Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 30 (2004): 57–97.
• "Sic transit gloria cornus," American Musical Instrument Society Newsletter 32, no. 2 (summer 2003): 11.
• "Healthful Horns," American Musical Instrument Society Newsletter 31, no. 3 (fall 2002): 22–23. Translator of this document.
• "Musical Anecdotes from 18th-Century Germany," American Musical Instrument Society Newsletter 31, no. 2 (summer 2002): 9–11. Translator of these items.
• Statement of thanks by Alfred Berner to AMIS on receiving the Society's Curt Sachs Award; Letter of Alfred Berner to Curt Sachs, August 16, 1958; Letter of Curt Sachs to Alfred Berner, August 22, 1958, American Musical Instrument Society Newsletter 29, no. 2 (summer 2000): 1–9. Translator of these documents.
• "The Dolceola: A Story of Musical Enterprise in Toledo, Ohio," Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 26 (2000): 141–186.
• "Identifying and Defining the Ruszpfeif : Some Observations and Etymological Theories," Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 17 (1991): 53–68.
• "The Autobiography of Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763–1850)," Studien zur Musikwissenschaft 40 (1991): 41–74. This article was originally written in German, but during production of the volume the editor asked me to prepare an English version.
• "Martin Agricola's Poetic Discussion of the Recorder and Other Woodwind Instruments (Part II: 1545)," The American Recorder 23, no. 4 (1982): 139–46; 24, no. 2 (1983): 51–60. Reprint in The Recorder and Music Magazine (London: Schott & Co., Ltd.) 8, no. 6 (1985): 171–79; no. 7 (1985): 202–212.
• Hermann Moeck, "The Twentieth-Century Renaissance of the Recorder in Germany," The American Recorder 23, no. 2 (1982): 61–68. Co-translator and editor of this article.
• "Martin Agricola's Poetic Discussion of the Recorder and Other Woodwind Instruments: A Translation with Commentary (Part I: 1529)," The American Recorder 21, no. 2 (1980): 103–13. Reprint in The Recorder and Music Magazine (London: Schott & Co., Ltd.) 8, no. 4 (1984): 127–29; no. 5 (1985): 139–48.
• "Gregor Aichinger," "Christian Erbach," "Fugger," "Adam Gumpelzhaimer," and "Bernhard Klingenstein," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London: Macmillan, 1980; revised in 2nd ed., 2001).
• "Sebastian Virdung's Method for Recorders of 1511: A Translation with Commentary," The American Recorder 2 no. 3 (1979): 99–105.
• "Filius Getronis: A Miracle on Long Island," The American Recorder 19, no. 4 (1979): 140–43.
• "Back to Basics: Twelve Modal Pieces by Adam Gumpelzhaimer in Facsimile," The American Recorder 19, no. 1 (1978): 3–14.
• "What to Look for in Editions of Early Music," The American Recorder 18, no. 4 (1978): 98–100. Reprint (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1989).
• "The Opusculum of Thomas Simpson," The American Recorder 8, no. 2 (1967): 43–46.

Publications: Small Scholarly Editions

• Johann Strauss, Sr., "Six Galops" (arranged for csakan by Ernest Krähmer), transcribed and edited for alto recorder/flute (Hannacroix, N.Y.: Loux Music Publishing Company, 1999).
• Philipp Fahrbach, "‘Arm in Arm mit dir' Waltzes, op. 30," edited for alto recorder (or flute) and piano (Hannacroix, N.Y.: Loux Music Publishing Company, 1988).
• Ernest Krähmer, "Eighteen Studies from the Neuste theoretisch practische Csakan-Schule, op. 1," edited for alto recorder (or flute) (Hannacroix, N.Y.: Loux Music Publishing Company, 1988).
• Hans Ulrich Staeps, "Minstrels" for solo voice, recorder quartet, piano (optional string quartet), and percussion; edited from the composer's autographs, with a translation of his preface (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1986).
  Reviewed by Constance M. Primus in The American Recorder (February, 1988)
• Gregor Aichinger, "Hodie Christus natus est" (Athens, Ohio: The Motet Press, 1986).
• Gregor Aichinger, "Three Ricercars from the Liber secundus sacrarum cantionum, 1595," Italian Renaissance Consort Series, 11 (Ottawa: Dove House Editions, 1983).
• Jacob van Eyck, "Five Duets from His Fluyten lust-hof (Book 1), 1649," Musica selecta, 9 (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1985).
  Reviewed by Gordon Sandford in The American Recorder (February, 1987)
• Ernest Krähmer, "Twelve Divertimenti for Solo Czakan (op. 4)," transcribed and edited for alto recorder (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1985).
• Thomas Mancinus, "Eight Bicinia from the Duum vocum cantiuncularum . . . liber, 1597," Italian Renaissance Consort Series, 12 (Ottawa: Dove House Editions, 1984).
• Pierre de La Rue, Paul Hofhaimer, Heinrich Isaac, and Anonymous, "Four Carmina (a4) from a Manuscript in the Universitätsbibliothek, Munich," Musica selecta, 8 (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1984).
  Reviewed by Eugene Reichenthal in The New York State School Music News (1985?)
• "Six Canons for the Easter Season by Martin Agricola," The American Recorder 24, no. 1 (1983): 7–13.
• Varerio Buona, "Four Trios from His Secondo libro della canzonette, 1592," Musica selecta, 7 (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes, 1983)
• Thomas Mancinus, "Four Duets from His Duum vocum cantiuncularum . . . liber, 1597," Musica selecta, 6 (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1983).
• Thomas Simpson, "More Dances from the Opusculum," American Recorder Society Editions, 89 (New York: Galaxy Music Corporation, 1981).
• John Dowland, John Farmer, and Thomas Simpson, "Four Pavan-Galliard Sets from the Opusculum, 1610," Viola da gamba Series, 33 (Ottawa: Dove House Editions, 1981.
• Gregor Aichinger, "Cantabant sancti," German/Slav Church Music, 10 (London: Mapa Mundi, 1980).
• Gregor Aichinger, "Noe, noe, noe," German/Slav Church Music, 6 (London: Mapa Mundi, 1980).
• Gregor Aichinger, "Ave Maria," German/Slav Church Music, 5 (London: Mapa Mundi, 1980).
• Heinrich Isaac, "Two Carmina (a3) from a Manuscript in the Universitätsbibliothek, Munich, Germany," Musica selecta, 4 (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1980). Facsimile edition with edited score.
  Reviewed by William Nelson in The American Recorder (May, 1981)
• Paolo Fonghetti, "Four Duets from His Capricii, et madrigali . . . a due voci, 1598," Musica selecta, 3 (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes Inc, 1980). Facsimile edition with edited score.
  Reviewed by William Nelson in The American Recorder (May, 1981)
• Adrian Willaert, "Four Trios from Antonio Gardane's Motetta trium vocum, 1551," Musica selecta, 2 (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1979).
  Reviewed by William Nelson in The American Recorder (May, 1981)
  Reviewed by Bernard J. Hopkins in The American Recorder (November, 1979)
• Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, "Six Duets from the Primo libro della musica a due voci, 1598," Musica selecta, 1 (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1979).
  Reviewed by Bernard J. Hopkins in The American Recorder (November, 1979)
• Hans Leo Hassler, "Eleven German Chorales" (Sharon, Conn.: Consort Music Inc., 1976).
  Reviewed by Bernard J. Hopkins in The American Recorder (November, 1978)
• John Dowland and Thomas Simpson, "Pavan (a5) and Galliard (a5) from the Opusculum (1610)," The Renaissance Recorder, 7 (Sharon, Conn.: Consort Music Inc., 1975).
  Reviewed by Paul Clark in Recorder & Music (December, 1977)
  Reviewed by Arnold Caswell in The American Recorder (May, 1980)
• Gregor Aichinger, "Three Ricercars," American Recorder Society Editions, 84 (New York: Galaxy Music Corporation, 1975).
• "Three Thirteenth-Century Dances," co-editorship with Peter Hedrick (Sharon, Conn.: Consort Music Inc., 1975).
• Gregor Aichinger, "Three Marian Motets (a3) from the Tricinia Mariana (1598)," The Renaissance Recorder, 6 (Sharon, Conn.: Consort Music Inc., 1975).
  Reviewed by Eugene Reichenthal in The American Recorder (February, 1977)
  Reviewed by Paul Clark in Recorder & Music (December, 1977)
• Thomas Tomkins and Thomas Simpson, "Pavan (a5) and Galliard (a5) from the Opusculum (1610)," The Renaissance Recorder, 5 (Sharon, Conn.: Consort Music Inc., 1975).
  Reviewed by Eugene Reichenthal in The American Recorder (February, 1977)
  Reviewed by Paul Clark in Recorder & Music (December, 1977)
• Gregor Aichinger, "Five Sacred Canzonettas from the Divinarum laudum . . . pars II (1608)," The Renaissance Recorder, 4 (Sharon, Conn.: Consort Music Inc., 1975).
  Reviewed by Janet Handmaker, Arthur Nitka, and Sharon Helton in Recorder Review (April, 1976)
  Reviewed by Paul Clark in Recorder & Music (December, 1977)
• Thomas Simpson, "Dances for Recorder Quintet," American Recorder Society Editions, 77 (New York: Galaxy Music Corporation, 1971).
• Thomas Simpson, "Two Dance Pairs," New York Pro Musica Instrumental Series, 6 (New York: Associated Music Publishers, Inc., 1970).

Publications: Reviews and Reports

• Reminiscences of the Society's Third Biennial Conference," Newsletter of the Mozart Society of America 10, no. 2 (August 27, 2006): 14–15.
• Bettina Wackernagel, Musikinstrumentenverzeichnis der Bayerischen Hofkapelle von 1655: Faksimile, Transcription und Kommentar. Veröffentlichungen der Gesellschaft für Bayerische Musikgeschichte (Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 2003), reviewed in Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 32 (2006): 179–182.
• Syntagma Musicum III: Michael Praetorius. Ed. & trans. by Jeffery Kite-Powell. Oxford Early Music Series (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), reviewed in Music & Letters 87, no. 1 (January 2006): 98–101.
• Frederick K. Gable, ed., Dedication Service for St. Gertrude's Chapel, Hamburg, 1607, Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 91 (Madison: A-R Editions, Inc., 1998), reviewed in Notes (September 2001): 180–183.
• Frank P. Bär, ed., Musica instrumentalis: Zeitschrift für Organologie (Nuremberg: Germanisches Nationalmuseum), Ausgabe 1 (1998), Band 2 (1999), reviewed in Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 27 (2001): 212–15.
• Eva Badura-Skoda, The History of the Pianoforte: A Documentary in Sound (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999), 90-minute video, reviewed in American Musical Instrument Society Newsletter 30, no. 2 (summer, 2001): 4–7.
• Bettina Wackernagel, Musikinstrumente des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts im Bayerischen National-museum (Munich: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, n.d.), reviewed in American Musical Instrument Society Newsletter 29, no. 1 (winter, 2000): 14–16.
• A Reminiscence of Gerald Burakoff, The American Recorder (1998).
• Music in the German Renaissance: Sources, Styles, and Contexts, ed. John Kmetz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), reviewed in The Sixteenth Century Journal 27 (1996):180–82.
• Richard Griscom and David Lasocki, The Recorder: A Guide to Writings about the Instrument for Players and Researchers (New York: Garland Publishing, 1994), reviewed in Notes 52, no. 3 (March 1996): 796–97.
• Musica getutscht: A Treatise on Musical Instruments (1511) by Sebastian Virdung, trans. and ed. Beth Bullard (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), reviewed in The Sixteenth Century Journal 26 (1995): 165–66; corrected version 766–67.
• Marianne Betz, Der Csakan und seine Musik: Wiener Musikleben im frühen 19. Jahrhundert, dargestellt am Beispiel einer Spazierstockblockflöte (Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1992), reviewed in the Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 21 (1995): 101–4.
• "A Personal Reminiscence of Hans Ulrich Staeps," The American Recorder 30, no. 2 (1989): 81.
• Elizabeth V. Phillips and John-Paul Christopher Jackson, Performing Medieval and Renaissance Music: An Introductory Guide (New York: Schirmer Books, 1986), reviewed in The American Recorder 29, no. 1 (1988): 23–24.
• Communication to the editor on the subject of methods of pitch designation, Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 13 (1987): 131–32.
• Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music, ed. Iain Fenlon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), vols. 1 (1981) and 2 (1982) reviewed in The American Recorder 25, no. 2 (1984): 64–66.
• Helmut Ottner, Der Wiener Instrumentenbau 1815–1833, Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikwissenschaft, 9 (Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1977); Konrad Ruhland, Alte Musikinstrumente aus niederbayerischen Werkstätten, Bavaria antiqua: Verborgene Kostbarkeiten der bayerischen Kulturgeschichte (Munich: Bayerische Vereinsbank, 1978), reviewed in the Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 8 (1982): 111–16.
• Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources and Texts, ed. Iain Fenlon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), reviewed in The American Recorder 23, no.1 (1982): 28.
• "Music Fit for an Emperor," The Arts Newsletter (Hofstra University Institute of the Arts) 2, no. 2 (December, 1979): 4–5.
• "Early Music Today," The Arts Newsletter 1, no. 1 (March, 1979).
• Report on Hofstra University's acquisition of the Schimmerling Music Collection, Notes 34, no. 3 (1978): 585–86.
• The Clausholm Music Fragments, ed. Henrik Glahn and Søren Sørensen, reviewed in Journal of the American Musicological Society 29, no. 1 (1976): 145–48.
• Georg Philipp Telemann, Musikalische Werke, vol. 22, "Die Donnerode"; "Das befreite Israel," ed. Wolf Hobohm, reviewed in Notes 29, no. 4 (1973): 792–93
• Francis Chagrin, "Serenade for Wind Quintet (‘Jottings for Jeremy')"; Richard Stoker, "Wind Quintet," reviewed in Notes 29, no. 2 (1972): 324–25.
• Andrew Charlton, "Cha Cha Dolce [for] Recorder Quartet with Optional Gamba, Maracas, andTambourine"; John Weeks, "Jubilate [for] Organ and Brass," reviewed in Notes 29, no. 1 (1972): 122–23.
• Arnold Cooke, "Quartet (1964) for Treble Recorder, Violin, Violoncello and Piano"; Daniel Pinkham, "Brass Trio"; William F. Lee, "Mosaics for Brass Quintet"; and Francis Chagrin, "Divertimento for Brass Quintet," reviewed in Notes 28, no. 2 (1971): 316–18.
• Tui St. George Tucker, "Sonata and Romanza for Solo Recorder," reviewed in Notes 28, no. 2 (1971): 312.

Publications: Method Books and Arrangements

• "Thirteen Great Hymns of the Eighteenth Century," arranged for recorder quartet (Fort Worth, Texas: Sweet Pipes Inc., 2003).
• "Airs of the Emerald Isle: Traditional Tunes of Ireland," arranged for recorder quartet (Fort Worth, Texas: Sweet Pipes Inc., 2001).
  Reviewed by Gene Reichenthal in Early Music Newsletter (New York Recorder Guild) September, 2001)
• "The Isle of Gentle Airs: Traditional Tunes of Scotland, England, and Wales," arranged for recorder quartet (Fort Worth, Texas: Sweet Pipes Inc., 2000).
  Reviewed by Gene Reichenthal in Early Music Newsletter (September, 2000)
  Review (reviewer unknown) in The American Recorder (November, 2000)
• "Senior Prom: Songs We Once Danced To," arranged for recorder quartet (Fort Worth, Texas: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1999).
  Reviewed by Jacquie Loomis in The American Recorder (May, 2000)
• The Sweet Pipes Recorder Book, Book 2 (separate editions for soprano and alto recorders) (Fort Worth, Texas: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1998). (Co-authorship with Gerald Burakoff and Paul Clark, and general editorship after the death of the former.)
  Reviewed by Constance M. Primus in The American Recorder (March, 1999)
• "Sweet Land of Liberty: Eleven Patriotic American Songs," arranged for recorder quartet (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1996).
• "Joyful Tidings: Seventeen Beloved Christmas Carols," arranged for recorder quartet (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1992).
  Reviewed by Gene Reichenthal in Early Music Newsletter (ca. 1992)
• "Seventeen Old Favorite Hymns Selected from British and American Hymnody of the Victorian Period," arranged for recorder quartet (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1989).
• The Sweet Pipes Recorder Book, Alto Recorder, Book 1 (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1982). Co-authorship with Gerald Burakoff.
  Reviewed by Louise Austin in The American Recorder (May, 1985)
  Reviewed by Paul Clark (also covering the soprano edition) in The American Recorder (December, 1983)
• The Sweet Pipes Recorder Book, Soprano Recorder, Book 1 (Levittown, N.Y.: Sweet Pipes Inc., 1980). Co-authorship with Gerald Burakoff.
  Reviewed by William Nelson in The American Recorder (May, 1981)

Papers, Lectures, and Other Professional Activity

• "Johann Herbeck (1831–77) and the Singverein of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna: His Legacy as Conductor and Composer," Fifteenth Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University College, Dublin, Ireland, June, 2008.
• "A Visit to the Piano Factory of Joseph P. Hale: The Great Industrialist at Work," American Musical Instrument Society Study Session, American Musicological Society, Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Canada, November, 2007.
• "'Provided with all the modern improvements': American Piano Factories over a Half Century," Annual Meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., July, 2007.
• "‘Viva il Maestro, viva il Maestrino': Young Mozart in Italy," Italian-American Experience Lecture Series: Mozart and Italy, Hofstra University, October 12, 2006.
• "Johann Herbeck's Association with the Wiener Männergesang-Verein and His Music for Men's Chorus," Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University of Manchester, UK, July, 2006.
• "Joseph P. Hale, Manufacturer of Pianos: Fraud or Eminent Benefactor?" Annual Meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, May, 2005.
• "Harry Edward Freund and His Great Square-Piano Bonfire," joint meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society, the Galpin Society, and CIMCIM in Oxford, London, and Edinburgh, UK, August, 2003.
• "The Editions of Franz Schubert's Choral Music by Johann Herbeck," 17th Congress of the International Musicological Society, Leuven, Belgium, August, 2002.
• "An Introduction to the Music of Joseph Haydn," Garden City (N.Y.) Community Church Haydnfest, May, 2001.
• "Perfect Practice in Golden Silence: The Remarkable Keyboards of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil," Annual Meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, May, 1995.
• "The Dolceola: An American Story of Family and Friends," Annual Meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society, San Antonio, Texas, May, 1992.
• "The Autobiography of Adalbert Gyrowetz," University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., February, 1990.
• "In Search of the Ruszpfeif : A Journey through the Labyrinth of Etymology and Iconography," Annual Meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society, Claremont, Calif., March, 1988.
• "Ludwig August Frankl and the Autobiography of Adalbert Gyrowetz: New Documentary Evidence," Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Swarthmore, Pa., October, 1984.
• Lectures given at the Annual Beethoven Festival, sponsored by the Friends of the Arts, Planting Fields, L.I., N.Y., 1981–83.
• "Luther and Music," Queens College, CUNY, Martin Luther Quincentennial Semester, Lecture Series, November, 1983.
• Co-director of "Recorder at Rider 1981," American Recorder Society Summer Workshop, Rider College, Lawrenceville, N.J., July, 1981.
• "The Czakan, from Hungarian Hermitage to Viennese Drawing Room," Annual Meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society (joint session with the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society), Vancouver, B.C., April, 1981.
• "The Fugger Family and Music in Renaissance Augsburg," Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Minneapolis, Minn., October, 1978. An unpublished pamphlet entitled "Printed Collections of Music Dedicated to the Fuggers, 1546–1624, and Genealogical Tree of the Fuggers of Augsburg" was prepared as a handout for this paper.
• "The Cantiones ecclesiasticae (1607) of Gregor Aichinger: A German Counterpart to Viadana's Cento concerti ecclesiastici," Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Chapel Hill, N.C., November, 1971.
• "The Opusculum: Thomas Simpson's First Collection of Dances," Meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Chicago, Ill., 1964.

Editorial Positions

Editor, American Musical Instrument Society Newsletter, 1999–2003
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, 1999–
Editor pro tem., American Musical Instrument Society Newsletter, 1997
Editorial Consultant, West Publishing Co., 1995
Interim Editor, Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, 1992
Editorial Consultant, Sweet Pipes Inc., 1986–98
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, 1986–95
Member of Editorial Board, The American Recorder, 1979–89
General Editor, Musica selecta: Critical Editions of Early Music for Performance and Study, 1979–85
Editor, Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, 1979–85.

Biographical Listings

Who's Who in America, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009
Who's Who in American Education, 1992/93, 2006/07
Directory of American Scholars, 1982
Who's Who in the East, 1981–
International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory, 1976–

Professional Memberships

American Musical Instrument Society
American Musicological Society

Service to the American Musical Instrument Society

Member of Curt Sachs Award Committee, 2003–06; chairman 2005–06
Chairman of Nominating Committee, 2002–03
Member of Nominating Committee, 2001–02
Editor of Newsletter, 1999–2003
Member of Journal Editorial Board, 1999–
Chairman of Program Committee for AMIS sessions in "Toronto 2000: Intersections," 1997–2000
Editor pro tem. of Newsletter, 1997
President, 1995–99
Chairman of Program Committee, 1995
Chairman of Nominating Committee, 1993–94
Ex-officio member of the Committee to Reorganize the Administration of the Society, 1994
Interim Editor of Journal, 1992
Member of Nominating Committee, 1992–93,
Prepared new bylaws to allow for election of officers by mail ballot (special request of the President of the Society), 1992
Chairman of Nominating Committee, 1991–92
Co-chairman of Program Committee, 1988–89
Liaison with the American Musicological Society, 1988–
Chairman of Publications Prizes Committee, 1990–91
Member of Publications Prizes Committee, 1988–90
Member of Scholarship and Grant Subcommittee, 1988–89
Chairman of Committee on the Directory of Musical Instrument Collections in the United States and Canada, 1988–93
Member of Board of Governors, 1988–94
Chairman of Program Committee, 1987
Member of Nominating Committee, 1986–87
Member of Journal Editorial Board, 1986–95
Editor of Journal, 1979–85

Service to the American Musicological Society (AMS)

Representative of the Greater New York Chapter, AMS, to the national AMS Council, 2008–

Service to Hofstra University (a Selection)

Member of Ad Hoc Promotion Committee for Christine Wondolowski Gerstein, Axinn Library, 2007
Associate Chairman of the Department of Music, 2006–08
Chairman of HCLAS committee to evaluate entries in the Humanities for the Stessin Prize, 2006–07
Chairman of Departmental Ad Hoc Tenure Committee for David Fryling. 2006–07
Member of HCLAS Committee to Examine the Distribution Requirements, 2006.
Chairman of HCLAS Executive Committee, 2004–05
Chairman of Departmental Ad Hoc Tenure Committee for Mark Anson-Cartwright, 2002–03
Associate Chairman of the Department of Music, spring, 2000
Member of Committee to Advise the Dean of HCLAS on the Course and Teacher Ratings, 1999–2000
Chairman of Ad Hoc Promotion Committee for Peter Loel Boonshaft, 1999
Member of Search Committee for the Dean of the University Library, 1998
Member of Music Library Committee, 1998
Member of HCLAS Curriculum Proposals Committee, 1997–2000
Departmental representative to University Library, 1996–98
Chairman of Departmental Ad Hoc Tenure Committee for Peter Loel Boonshaft, 1992–93
Chairman of Departmental Ad Hoc Tenure Committee for Howard Cinnamon, 1990–91
Member of Dean's Special Committee on the Administrative Reorganization of HCLAS, 1987–89
Member of Humanities Faculty Personnel Board, 1986–89
Chairman of HCLAS committee to evaluate entries in the humanities for the Stessin Prize, 1986–87
Member of HCLAS Standards and Curriculum Review Committee, 1985–88
Member of HCLAS Core Curriculum Committee, 1983–84
Chairman of Departmental Ad Hoc Tenure Committee for Edgar Dittemore, 1982–83
Member of AAUP Grievance Committee, 1979–81
President of Hofstra Chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda, 1975–78, 1982–
Vice-President of Hofstra Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and member of Committee on Membership, 1975–77
Departmental representative to University Library, 1973–94,
Member of Music Department Personnel Committee (Chairman from time to time, 1973–75, 1981–94, 1995–
Member of University Library Committee, 1972–73
Adviser to Student Music Honor Society, 1970–75
Chairman of HCLAS Standards Committee and member of Executive Committee, 1970–73
Director of Ensemble Program, 1970–75, 1983–84, 1986–88

Courses and Subjects Taught

Introduction to Music
Music History
Opera, Wagner, Symphony
History of Musical Instruments
Editing and Performance Practices
Introduction to Graduate Studies in Music
Words and Music (graduate)
American Music
Graduate theses and undergraduate honors essays on various aspects of musicology
Introduction to Music Theory
Harmony
Eartraining
Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint, Species Counterpoint
Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint
Orchestration
Form Analysis
Choral Arranging, Literature, and Methods
Instrumental Methods
Tuba, Recorder, Viola da Gamba
Collegium Musicum
Concert and Marching Band
Conducting
Small Ensembles
Recorder and Brass Classes

Performance Activities (a Selection)

Guest Conductor, Recorder Society of Long Island, 1979–81, 1983, 1989, 1991, 1998
Guest Conductor, Long Island Recorder Festival, 1974–75, 1979
Performance as tenor and player of tuba, hurdy-gurdy, and serpent at various Hofstra University Department of Music concerts and other functions over the years
Founder and Director of the Hofstra Collegium Musicum, 1969–
Solo tenor, First Congregational Church, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1965–66, 1967–68
Solo tuba, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Toledo, Ohio, 1961–64
Solo tuba, Toledo Concert Band, Toledo, Ohio, 1958–66
Numerous jobs as string bass player in dance bands, 1958–66