DUTIES AT NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
Professor of Music, Theory and Composition


COURSES TAUGHT AT NAU:  Undergraduate courses; theory and ear training,
analysis and form, twentieth century literature and theory, composition,
orchestration. Graduate courses; theory pedagogy, analysis, composition,
computer applications in music, orchestration, twentieth century music. 
Involved in music computer based instruction and electronic music
synthesis, scoring and composition.

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY:  Bachelor of Music Education, University of
Nebraska (1956); Master of Music, University of Nebraska (1958);  Doctor
of Musical Arts, University of Colorado (1971). Graduate study in music
theory and composition, University of  Iowa; Post Graduate workshops in
Music CAI at North Texas State University in 1981 and 1984; Music Theory
Pedagogy Institute, University of Colorado, summer of 1988; Course work
in computer programming at NAU.


EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

  - Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ	1971-present
  
  - University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) 1966-1969
 	(Director of Bands, instructor of arranging, brass, music education)
 	
  - Instrumental music, Nebraska Public Schools (Dewitt, Scotia, McCook) 1958-1966


PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Honors

  - Golden Key  National Honor Society Award for faculty achievement (1993)
  
  - Faculty Artist (1985-1986), Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, NAU
  
  - Member, Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, 1985, NAU
  
  - Member, Pi Kappa Lamda, Music Honor Society, 1971, University of Colorado
   
  - Past President, Nebraska State Bandmasters Association.
  
  - Established the NAU Arts Technology Center (CMC), 1994.
  
  - Establish and Directed the 
    Office of Arts and Communication Technology,1992-1996.
  
  
Publications, Performances, Presentations, Reviews

  - Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter: a composition for mixed chorus and  
    piano on a text by John Crowe Ransom. Summer 1996.
    
  - Our Land: a choral suite for mixed chorus and piano based on my own
    texts.  Dedicated to the Ponderosa Group at NAU, a group of faculty
    affiliated with Second Nature and involved with issues regarding environmental
    sustainability in the curriculum.  Summer 1996.
    
  - Integrating Text, Music Graphics and Midi Files:  a presentation
    on authoring web pages for music instruction, given at the 1996 Annual
    College Music Society/Association for Technology in Music Instruction
    Conference in Atlanta.         

  - Introduction To Musical Design:  (Wm. C. Brown, Dubuque, Iowa); a
    two-volume book series intended for use in a four-semester college music
    theory sequence.  Published 1991-92.
    
  - Three Seasons Of Love: a set of three pieces for unaccompanied mixed
    chorus on a paraphrase from the Song of Solomon, a Canticle by Donovan
    Welch, and a poem by W. B. Yeats, Mark Foster Music Company, 1988,
    Champaign, Il.  Performanced by the NAU Chamber Singers, Spring 88.
    
  - Landscape:  a multi-movement work for  voice and chamber ensemble
    which includes piano, guitar, string quartet, and percussion (glass
    harmonica, vibraphone, xylophone, and roto toms).  Premiered Aug. 23,
    1985, Coconino Center for the Arts.  The thirty-seven minute composition
    was written under a Meet-the-Composer grant sponsored by the Arizona
    Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts,  and the
    Coconino Center for the Arts.  The composition performed in conjunction
    with an exhibition of paintings by Cynthia Bennett of Sedona.
    
  - Housman Cycle: five songs on poems by A. E. Housman, for Soprano and
    Piano. Premiered Aug. 23, 1985, Coconino Center for the Arts. The cycle
    was performed a second time in the NAU Art Gallery (September 1985).  A
    third performance of the cycle was presented in Portland, OR, Fall 87.
    
  - Vistas (A Chorale Triptych):  The composition,  for  SSAATTBB chorus
    and piano, was premiered October 28,1984, at the Elaine Horwitch
    Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona.  The triptych was performed on numerous
    occasions in Arizona and California by the NAU Chorale during the Spring
    Choir Tour of 1985.
    
  - Various articles published in T.H.E. JOURNAL  (Technical Horizons in
    Education), Music Educators Journal, Arizona Music Education Association
    Journal, Arizona Humanities Association Journal, and the
    Instrumentalist.  Papers presented at various state and national
    association meetings.  Reviews of several major publication and computer
    software projects.
          
  - Awarded grants by Arizona Council on the Arts and NAU Organized
    Research to complete and perform original compositions. Also completed
    Organized Research grants to study pattern perception in music. 
    Currently working on an Office of Instructional Development grant (OID)
    to review available CD ROM to determine its role in classroom,
    laboratory and distant modes of instruction.  Developing multimedia materials
    on Mikrokosmos (Bartok) and Preludes for Piano (Debussy) to explore
    nonlinear instruction strategies.