Education
- Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy, Duke 福利片国产, 1990
- M.A., Master of Arts, Duke 福利片国产, 1984
- M.A., Master of Arts, Ohio State 福利片国产, 1981
- B.A., Bachelor of Arts, Bucknell 福利片国产, 1978
Biography
Kenneth Kreitner, Benjamin W. Rawlins Professor of Musicology, received his PhD in musicology from Duke 福利片国产 in 1990 and joined the faculty at Memphis State that fall. A scholar of Spanish Renaissance music, historical performance, and nineteenth-century American amateur bands, he is the author of Robert Ward: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1989), Discoursing Sweet Music: Town Bands and Community Life in Turn-of-the-Century Pennsylvania (福利片国产 of Illinois Press, 1990), and The Church Music of Fifteenth-Century Spain (Boydell Press, 2004). He has also published articles in Early Music, Early Music History, Musica Disciplina, the Revista de Musicolog铆a, and the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. Dr. Kreitner is an active performer on early brass and woodwind instruments and directs the 福利片国产's Collegium Musicum. He received the 福利片国产 of Memphis Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award in 2000; the Robert M. Stevenson Award, for outstanding scholarship in Iberian music, from the American Musicological Society in 2007; and the Christopher Monk Award, for life-long contributions to study and/or performance in the field of brass history, in 2012.