The spring semester Musicology Lecture Series opens with a presentation by Charles M. Atkinson, Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of Music, The Ohio State University, who will discuss "The Anonymus Vaticanus in speculo."
Charles Atkinson, Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of Music at Ohio State, is a musicologist specializing in the music and music theory of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. His teaching interests also encompass Viennese Classicism and the music of the twentieth century. A former DAAD, Alexander von Humboldt, and NEH Fellow, Atkinson has received numerous scholarly awards, including the Einstein and Kinkeldey Awards of the American Musicological Society, the Elliott Prize of the Medieval Academy of America, and The Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar and Distinguished Lecturer Awards. Atkinson received his BFA from the University of New Mexico, MM from the University of Michigan, and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. He also studied at the Juilliard School and at the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, as a DAAD Fellow. He has served on the faculties of the University of California at Irvine (Assistant Professor, 1973-78), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (visiting professor, spring 1987), the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris (Directeur d’Études Invité - Étranger, spring 2001), and the Universität Würzburg, Germany (Gastdozent, summer 2012). He served as president of the American Musicological Society in 2007-2008, and was elected to Honorary Membership in the Society in 2012.
For abstract and more, please see the Musicology Lecture Series page.
