Department of Music

Rehding is a music theorist with a focus on intellectual history and media theory. This has taken his work in a number of different directions from Ancient Greek music to the Eurovision Song Contest—and even into outer space. His research has contributed...

van Orden specializes in the cultural history of early modern France, Italy, and the Mediterranean, book history, and popular music (mostly 16th-c, but also in the 1960s). Her latest book is Songs in Unexpected Places, on polyglot singing, cultural...