Peter Schimpf

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Peter Schimpf

Professor of Music

Music

Research Interests

    Performance practice on historical plucked string instruments in the West including the lute, theorbo, Renaissance and Baroque guitars. The influence of non-Western musical traditions on Western classical composers; the music and career of Henry Cowell; Middle Eastern and North Indian classical music

Teaching Interests

    The history of Western music; world music, music appreciation, early music performance practice, The Beatles, and the history of Rock and Roll

Education

PhD in Musicology

Indiana University

MA in Musicology

Indiana University

Other in Guitar Performance

California State University Sacramento

Published Works

  • Schimpf, J. P. (2015). Percy Grainger, Henry Cowell, and the Development of the World Music Survey Course. Ashgate.
  • Schimpf, J. P. (2013, Fall). “Henry Cowell and the Development of Iranian State Radio for the United States Information Agency”. Georg Olms Verlag.
  • Schimpf, J. P. (2012). "Music in the Rocky Mountains" in The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition. Oxford.
  • Schimpf, J. P. (2012). Supplementary Instructors' Materials to accompany "The Oxford History of Western Music.". Oxford University Press.
  • Schimpf, J. P. (2008). "Henry Cowell" in Composers and Musicians of the Twentieth Century. Salem Press.