Joel Schwindt

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Joel Schwindt

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at Brandeis University in Boston. I earned my Master's in Music from the University of Arizona in 2006 in Choral Conducting, and my Bachelor's in Music from Wichita State University in 2003 in Vocal Performance, with a minor in Instrumental Performance.

My primary interest is the subject of musical dramaturgy, particularly issues between textual source and musical setting. My current paper, "Symmetrical Distribution of Musical Space as a Reflection of Literary Models in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo," is an essay on the precise symmetrical architecture of musical space found in the earliest score of 1609, a structure which largely replicates Alessandro Striggio's libretto for the work's premiere in 1607, despite the substantial alteration of the libretto as found in the later score; this shared structure is also illustrative of devices and structures found in a number of important literary works known to either the composer or the librettist, including those by Angelo Poliziano, Ottavio Rinuccini, and Torquato Tasso. This essay has been incorporated into my dissertation topic, which is a consideration of the impact of textual and rhetorical models on Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.

I am also interested in the music of the French Baroque, focusing on the sacred dramas of Marc-Antoine Charpentier. My article on Charpentier's integration and balance of French and Italian styles was published in the August 2008 issue of the Choral Journal, and my edition of and commentary on the composer's In nativitatem Domini canticum, H. 416, is now available from Baerentreiter (links to the product information page, as well as the full commentary, are available below). I recently served as resident musicologist for Helios Early Opera's performance of David et Jonathas, H. 490, which was given in Cambridge (Massachusetts) in January of 2012.

On this page, you'll find information on my professional activities, including conference presentation, publications, and teaching; additionally, links to performance recordings are available below.

Feel free to contact me via email.

Vital Information

Resume
Performance Vitae

References available upon request

Presentations, Publications, Dissertation

Conference Presentations

Monteverdi's L'Orfeo: "Discovering" Symmetry

Song, Stage, and Screen VI (University of Missouri-Kansas City: June 2011)

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Annual Meeting (Arizona State University: February 2011)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier: A Stranger In His Own Land

American Musicological Society-Rocky Mountain Chapter (Utah State University: March 2008)

Publications

Charpentier, Marc-Antoine; edition and commentary by Joel Schwindt. In nativitatem D[omi]ni canticum, H. 416. Kassel, Germany: Baerenreiter-Verlag (2011).
Available for purchase here

Full commentary available here

"Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Integration and Balance of French and Italian Styles in Two Christmas Dramas. Choral Journal 49, 2 (August 2008): 44-59. [Peer reviewed]

Dissertation working title

"Musical architecture in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo as a reflection of structural and rhetorical forms in relevant literary models"

Teaching

Experience (see resume for details)

Instructor, Brandeis University (2011-Present)

Music Theory and Aural Skills Lab; undergraduate majors and non-majors (Fall 2011-Spring 2012)

Teaching Assistant, Brandeis University (Spring 2011)

Music History, Antiquity to 1650; undergraduate majors (Spring 2011)

Music teacher, Benson Unified School District (2006-2009)

General Music and Choir Classes; grades 5-12

Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona (2005-2006)

Jazz History; undergraduate non-majors (Fall 2005-Spring 2006)

Music and Meaning; undergraduate non-majors (Spring 2005)

Available upon request

Teaching evaluations
Philosophy of Education

Sample syllabus

Sample curriculum map

Sample lesson plan

Performance Audio and Video

Conducting
Selections from "La pasion," a concert of Hispanic Renaissance and Baroque composers (April 2009)
Guerrero: O Domine Jesu Christe
Victoria: Tenebrae factae sunt
Padilla: Stabat Mater

F.J. Haydn: Te Deum in C Major, Hob. XXIIIc:2 (University of Arizona conducting jury-February 2005)

Holst: "Hymn to Vena" from the Hymns from the Rig Veda (UUCNWT Women with guest artist Carroll McLaughlin, Professor of Harp at the University of Arizona-April 2005)

Voice
Ravel: Selections from Histoires Naturelles (April 2002)
Le Paon (The Peacock)
Le Cygne (The Swan)
Le Pintade (The Guinea Hen)

Two Barber Songs (April 2002)
"The Monk and His Cat" from Hermit Songs
"My Lizard" from Despite and Still

Saxophone
Glazounov: Concerto for Saxophone (February 1998)
Part I
Part II

Wolfgang Jacobi: Sonata for Saxophone (February 1998)
I.     Allegro, ma non troppo
II.    Sarabande
III.   Allegro

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