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E-Mail:
Steven.Plank@oberlin.edu

Office:
Bibbins 204
Office Phone:
440/775-8237
Address:
77 W. College St.
Oberlin, OH 44074

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Division of Musicology
Historical Performance Program

Steven Plank
Director, Division of Musicology
Professor of Musicology
Faculty, Historical Performance Program
Director, Collegium Musicum

Education:
B.Mus. with honors, 1973, M.Mus., 1974, University of Louisville; Ph.D., Washington University (St. Louis), 1980; Studies in early music performance with Trevor Pinnock, James Tyler, Edward Tarr, and Bruce Dickey.

Professional Affiliations:
Member, Louisville Orchestra, 1970-76; Early Music Ensemble of St. Louis, 1978-79; Papers on 17th-century music read before the American Musicological Society and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music; Associate editor, Historic Brass Society Journal.

Publications (Books):

 Choral Performance: A Guide to Historical Practice (Scarecrow Press, 2005)   

  • The Way to Heavens Doore: An Introduction to Liturgical Process and Musical Style (Scarecrow Press,1994)

  • Co-translator: Edward Tarr’s The Trumpet (Batsford Ltd., 1988)

Publications (Contributing Author):

Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Early Music, The Musical Times, Music & Letters, Bach, The Consort, Franciscan Studies, and Choir and Organ.

Teaching:
Visiting assistant professor of trumpet, University of Massachusetts, 1975; Teaching assistant (Collegium Musicum, historical winds), Washington University, 1977-79; Affiliated teacher, St. Louis University, 1978-79.

Recordings:
Orchestral recordings, Louisville Orchestra First Editions.


The Oberlin Collegium Musicum at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Washington, D.C. Photo credit: Margot Schulman

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