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MUSIC HISTORY AT THE

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

 

The USC School of Music offers a wide array of music history and literature courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Degrees include the Master of Music in Music History and the doctoral minor in Music History.

Four full-time faculty members service core baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate courses. In addition, guest speakers offer students valuable opportunities to meet with other accomplished scholars.

We welcome your interest and invite you to consider graduate studies in music history at the University of South Carolina.

 

 

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                  Julie Hubbert

               Associate Professor

 

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                                                                Peter Hoyt 

                                                             Assistant Professor

                                                                                             

                                                                                                    Sarah Williams 

                                                                                                         Assistant Professor

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  William H. Bates

                                                                                                                                      Professor and Coordinator of

                                                                                                                                       Music History and Literature

                                                                                                                      

RECENT FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Julie Hubbert.........   

Peter Hoyt ............  

Recent presentations by Sarah Williams include those at meetings of the Society for Seventeenth Century Music, Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY; the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA; and the International Musicological Society 2009 Congress in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

William Bates has published the article "J. S. Bach's Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor (BWV 542): A Source Study for Organists" in BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute (2008/2) . Comprising the entire journal volume, the study outlines possible or likely relationships among thirty-four of the thirty-five extant manuscripts of the two pieces.