DENISE VON GLAHN, Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of the Center for Music of the Americas, came to the Florida State University in 1998. Von Glahn specializes in American music and twentieth-century musical modernism with particular interest in the interactions between music and larger social and cultural currents. She has published extensively on Charles Ives and Leo Ornstein.
Her book The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape (Northeastern University Press, 2003) looked at fourteen American composers of the high-art tradition and the ways they were inspired by America’s iconographic places. It was named an “Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice, and won a 2004 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. In 2005, along with Michael Broyles, she published the critical edition of Leo Ornstein’s Quintette for Piano and Strings (1927) as part of A-R Editions’ Music in the United States of America (MUSA) series. Their biography, Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices, was published by Indiana University Press in 2007.
Von Glahn's scholarship has appeared in numerous collections on topics ranging from Transcendentalism, to the Civil War, to the works of Edgard Varèse. She has published in Musical Quarterly, American Music, the Journal of the Society for American Music (JSAM), and Musik-Konzepte. A new book project titled 'Skilful Listeners': American Women Composers Responding to Nature considers the ways select composers have participated in the long tradition of women nature writers by responding to the natural environment with their music. She is active in the American Musicological Society as a member of the National Council, and the Society for American Music where she heads up the Society's History Project, an initiative to capture the history of the organization from its founders and its current members. Dr. Von Glahn has received university teaching awards from the University of Washington and Florida State University for her undergraduate and graduate teaching. |
