Jack Bunch
Listen as we are joined by Dr. A. Kori Hill, musicologist and professor at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, as she talks to us about what it means to be a musicologist as well as why musicology is such an important field of study.
Dr. Kori specializes in American music, Black composers, and music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is a program notes annotator for Seattle Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Chamber Music Society at Lincoln and head writer for our very own Classics for Kids Blog here at Cincinnati Public Radio. She is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Vocabulary and Important Terms:
- Musicology-The academic study of music
- Repertoire-The collection of all the music that a performer or composer knows/ has composed.
- Music Theory- The analytical study of elements of musical systems such as harmonies, counterpoint forms, and analytical techniques.
- Ethnomusicology- The academic study of music, culture, and place.
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