David J. Rothenberg

Associate Professor | Department Chair

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David J. Rothenberg became chair of the Department of Music in July 2015. A music historian whose research explores connections between music, liturgy, visual art, and literature in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, he is author of The Flower of Paradise: Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music (Oxford University Press, 2011), co-editor, with Robert R. Holzer, of the Oxford Anthology of Western Music, Volume 1: From the Earliest Notations to the Early Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2013), and Music Book Review Editor for the medieval studies journal Speculum (2014-17). He has published articles and essays in Journal of the American Musicological Society (2006), Journal of Musicology (2004 and 2011), Musik in Bayern (2005), and Heinrich Isaac and Polyphony for the Proper of the Mass in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (Brepols, 2011). Rothenberg has received the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society (2007) as well as research grants and fellowships from the W. P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Fund of Case Western Reserve University, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. He has spoken at conferences and colloquia in the United States, Canada, and Europe, has given public presentations at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and is a regular pre-concert lecturer for the Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Chamber Music Society.

Contact

david.rothenberg@case.edu
216.368.6046
Haydn 201A

Classes

MUHI 201 (History of Western Music I), MUHI 431 (Medieval Music), MUHI 432 (Music of the Renaissance), MUHI 590 (Seminar in Musicology: Chant, Liturgy, and Polyphony), USSY 267 (Medieval Love Songs: Poetry, Music, Spirituality), USSY 289 (Gothic Liturgy, Art, and Music)

Education

Ph.D. Music History, Yale University, 2004

Specialty

Musicology