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The University of Michigan offers rich opportunities and resources for study in musicology, including ethnomusicology and historical musicology. The faculty includes specialists in each of the major periods of music history in the West as well as American music, music of Latin America and the Caribbean, Chinese music, music of the Pacific Islands, and the music of Southeast Asia. As part of a large School of Music, Theatre & Dance, the department also provides its students with access, as listeners and performers, to the Early Music Ensemble, the Contemporary Directions Ensemble, and the Javanese Gamelan Ensemble, among many others.
Established in 1948 shortly after World War II, as part of the University of Michigan's Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the musicology program developed through the 1950s under the leadership of Louise E. Cuyler and Raymond Kendall, with a faculty that included Hans T. David, H. Wiley Hitchcock, and Gordon Sutherland. In 1954, the university acquired the library of Belgian musicologist and collector Jean-August Stellfeld, whose 20,000 volumes, including rare prints, did much to provide a basis for the scholarly study of European music from the sixteenth century on.
During the 1960s, Glenn Watkins, Albert Cohen, and William P. Malm joined the musicology faculty, the latter introducing the study of ethnomusicology to the graduate program. In 1974, the musicology department merged with the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance's department of music history, which in earlier years had served only undergraduate and master's students. That merger brought Richard Crawford, Judith Becker, David E. Crawford, R. John Wiley, Gwynn McPeek, and William J. Weichlein, among others, into an expanded department with students at all points on the academic spectrum. In the 1980s, James M. Borders and Louise K. Stein joined the department. During the 1990s, Joseph S. C. Lam, Lester P. Monts, Amy Stillman, and Steven M. Whiting were added, while more recently, the faculty ranks have been complemented by the addition of Christi-Anne Castro, Mark Clague, Jane Fulcher, Jason Geary, Charles Garrett, and Stefano Mengozzi.
Since the 1970s, the musicology program, as part of a major public university with a powerful music-making tradition (including a vigorous composition department), has graduated students with specialties in European music of several eras, American music of many stripes, and performance traditions from various parts of the world.
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