Lecture Series in Musicology: Katherine Bergeron (Brown University)

"What's in a Name: History, the Afterlife, and Berio's King." Katherine Bergeron has taught on the faculties of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tufts University, and the University of California at Berkeley. She joined the faculty of Brown University in 2004, where she was chair of the Music Department and currently serves as the Dean of the College, Brown's highest undergraduate academic office. Her scholarship has focused on French music and culture at the fin-de-siecle, the discipline of musicology, experimental music, song, poetry, opera, and film. She is co-editor, with Philip Bohlman, of "Disciplining Music" (University of Chicago Press, 1992), and author of "Decadent Enchantments" (University of California Press, 1998), which won the Deems-Taylor Award from ASCAP in 1999. She most recently completed "Voice Lessons" (Oxford University Press, 2010), a study of French language education, linguistic science, and the emergence of the vocal art known as "la melodie francaise."