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Mary K. Hunter

A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Music, Chair of Music Department

Spring 2007

  • Thinking and Writing about Music (formerly known as Musical Methodologies) (MUS 131)
  • Tonal Analysis (MUS 203)
  • INTERMEDIATE INDEPENDENT STUDY (MUS 292)
  • ADVANCED INDEPENDENT STUDY (MUS 402)

Phone (207) 725-3645
Title A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Music
Department MUSIC
2nd Title Chair
2nd Department MUSIC
Work Location 201 Gibson Hall
E-Mail mhunter@bowdoin.edu
 
Mary K. Hunter: Bowdoin College: Music

Education:

B.A. Sussex University
M.A., Ph.D. Cornell

Mary Hunter is a musicologist with interests in eighteenth-century opera, gender and music, music in film, and the history of performance. She has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society and the National Humanities Center.

Opera Buffa in Mozart's ViennaHunter is currently editor of AMS Studies in Music. She has been editor of Cambridge Opera Journal, (1998-2003), co-editor of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna, (Cambridge, 1997) and the author of The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna, (Princeton, 1999), which won the American Musicological Society's Kinkeldey Prize. She is also the author of numerous articles in such journals as The Journal of the American Musicological Society, The Journal of Musicology, Cambridge Opera Journal, The Musical Times, repercussions, and Current Musicology, and she has spoken frequently at meetings of the The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna: A Poetics of EntertainmentAmerican Musicological Society, the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and the International Musicological Society.

She is an active violinist. Teaching areas include music theory, early music, opera, eighteenth century music, Arabic music, and music in culture.