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Dr. James R. Briscoe, music history
Dr. Briscoe is the author of 11 articles in the New Grove Dictionary of Music. He presented a paper on the Cuban-American composer Tania León at the International Musicological Society in 2002, and spoke at the International Musicological Society in 1989 on "Music at the 1889 Paris Exposition." He also spoke on Franck's relation to Debussy at the International Symposium on César Franck in Liège, Belgium, which in 1990 commemorated the centenary of Franck's death. Articles on women composers and on Debussy have appeared in 19th-Century Music, College Music Symposium, Musical Quarterly, Music and Letters, the Journal of Musicology, and Revue beige de musicologie. Recently, Dr. Briscoe has developed a focus on the national level as an undergraduate teacher. A review of undergraduate music history teaching appears in the December 2004 issue of the Journal of the American Musicological Society. He also chaired the discussion "The Musicologist as Undergraduate Teacher" and spoke on "Necessary Components of Doctoral Education for Teachers" at the American Musicological Society and College Music Society in 2000. He recently served as President of the Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, and currently represents musicology on the national Board of Directors of the College Music Society. Dr. Briscoe graduated with a bachelor's degree in cello from the University of Alabama and with both master's and doctorate degrees from the University of North Carolina. He has received research and teaching grants from the French government, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Danforth Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, Butler University, and the Indiana Humanities Council. The highest award, in his opinion, came at Butler University in 1984, when students named him Outstanding Teacher of the Year. E-mail: jbriscoe@butler.edu |
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Professor James Briscoe's teaching emphasizes American, eighteenth-century, and nineteenth-century music.
His most recent publication is the New Historical Anthology of Music by Women and accompanying CD set, published in 2004 by Indiana University Press. He is also the author of Claude Debussy: A Guide to Research (Garland Publishing, New York, 1990). Recent
scholarship has centered on critical editions of Debussy's Sept Poèmes de Banville (Jobert, 1985;
in USA, Presser) and his Twenty-four Preludes for Piano (Schirmer, 1992). The two-volume collection of
Claude Debussy: 62 Songs is a critical and performing edition that appeared in November, 1993,
from Hal Leonard Publishers. His Contemporary Anthology of Music by
Women (Indiana University Press, 1997) was reviewed in a major music history journal
as "a valuable resource for students and teachers, men and women." Another text, Debussy in
Performance (Yale Press, 1999), was praised in May 2000 by the London Times for its abundant
documentation and sensitive readings, and by the American Music Teacher as "scholarly and
well-documented.... It will change the way you view Debussy's scores."