Ph. D. (Historical Musicology): Princeton University
M.F.A. (Historical Musicology): Princeton University
B.A. (History and Music): Williams College
Phone: (610) 330-5823
Email: cumminga@lafayette.edu
FYS 162: Music in European Society: Six Case Studies
MUS 102: Music in Western Civilization: European Classical Music, and How to Listen to It More Knowledgeably and Satisfyingly
MUS 101: Music History and Literature: 1600-1915
MUS 260: Selected Studies in Music History and Literature: Italian Music and Italian Identity
MUS 268: Selected Studies in Music History and Literature: European Music from the Middle Ages through Haydn and Mozart
MUS 272: Experiencing Opera: Masterpieces of Italian Opera from the Beginnings of Opera to The Barber of Seville
VaST 226: 1859: Charles Darwin, Richard Wagner, and the Uses and Abuses of Nineteenth-Century Science
Anthony M. Cummings (Professor) earned the B.A. degree in history and music from Williams College and the M.F.A. and Ph.D. degrees in historical musicology from Princeton University. Professor Cummings is a specialist in European music of the medieval and early-modern periods and in early jazz. He teaches a course on European classical instrumental music for non-majors, and, for both majors and non-majors, a survey of European music from the Middle Ages to 1800 and specialized courses on the music of the Italian Renaissance and the history of Italian opera. He has published four books on Renaissance music and has completed a fifth, and is the editor of a forthcoming edition of the complete works of two important early New Orleans jazz musicians. He is also the author of numerous articles in scholarly journals and papers delivered at international conferences.