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Aaron S. Allen

Aaron S. Allen, Assistant Professor of Musicology, joined the UNCG School of Music faculty in 2007. Dr. Allen’s research is in the field of Beethoven reception, specifically in nineteenth-century Italy. In addition, he is interested in studies of music and nature, known as ecomusicology, and he co-founded and currently chairs the American Musicological Society’s Ecocriticism Study Group. Dr. Allen has published and presented papers on campus environmental issues, Beethoven, and ecomusicology. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2006 from Harvard University, Dr. Allen was the Core Post-Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Music before moving to UNC Greensboro. Before that, he spent a year in Italy doing research as a visiting student at the Universitá degli studi di Bologna. Dr. Allen earned bachelor's degrees (B.A. in music and B.S. in environmental studies) from Tulane University in New Orleans, and has lived in various southern states although he originally hails from West Virginia.

There are 8 included publications by Aaron S. Allen :

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Beethoven and George Thomson: A New Letter Fragment from 1816,? 2008 388 In his 1956 summary of the correspondence between Ludwig van Beethoven and George Thomson, Donald MacArdle noted parenthetically that Thomson's letter of October 20, 1816, to Beethoven ".. . as it appears in Thomson's Letterbook is apparently incompl...
The Ecomusicology Bibliography via Zotero: A Dynamic and Emerging Scholarly Resource, 2012 11 The Ecomusicology Bibliography is a unique and unparalleled bibliography of books, articles, newspapers, websites, blogs, and multimedia sources. It is available to anyone with a computer and internet connection by using the free software Zotero, w...
Ecomusicology: Ecocriticism and Musicology. (colloquy). 2011 12 As environmental awareness has become more widespread, an increasing number of musicological works have engaged with this subject. Some of the aims of this new (if not always explicitly named) ecomusicology resonate with concerns expressed in previou...
Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature . . . and Change in Environmental Studies? 2012 14 The five senses: touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing. We rely on them daily, professionally, and personally — each can inform our understanding of the world and evoke memories of places and times, both distant and dear. Public policy and science, how...
Institutional Change and Campus Greening at Tulane University. 2000 343 A case study of Tulane University that examines the institutional change process is presented in this paper. Agents of change can use the examples and conclusions as a basis for making changes at any institution. The inability for Tulane to make the ...
Review of Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts, 2003 141 Music and Musicians in Renaissance Cities and Towns. Edited by Fiona Kisby (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001) 188 pp. $59.95 It is high time that historians and musicologists (a.k.a. “music histori-ans”) start sharing ideas in an accessibl...
Review of The Organ as a Mirror of Its Time. 2004 112 The Organ as a Mirror of Its Time is directed at two primary audiences— organists (due to the jargon and detailed organ speciacations) and historians of music, religion, intellectual trends, and technology. The pipe organ is an inherently interdiscip...
Symphonic Pastorals 2012 18 A popular misunderstanding of the symphony is that the genre is devoid of the meanings conveyed in texted music such as songs and choruses. The idea of the symphony as ‘absolute music’ – ‘abstract’ or ‘pure’ sound, music for its own sake, in contrast...