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Stanley C. Pelkey (2005)
Musicology -

B.A. Asbury
M.A. Eastman
M.A. Rochester
Ph.D. Eastman

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He was the first musicologist nationwide to receive a prestigious Pew Younger Scholars Graduate Fellowship to support his doctoral studies. He was previously on the music faculty at Gordon College in Massachusetts, and he also has been an instructor at Eastman. At Western he teaches courses in music history, literature, research, and ethnomusicology. He recently completed a second master's degree in history from the University of Rochester.

He co-edited Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines (University Press of Mississippi, 2005) and has authored entries for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He has presented numerous papers at scholarly conferences, including "The Classical Samuel Wesley as Seen and Heard in His Mature Piano Sonatas" at the conference Music, Cultural History and the Wesleys; "Musical Quotation, Keyboard Music, and British National Identity in the Long Eighteenth Century" at the conference Narrating the Eighteenth Century; and "Disruptive Musical Associations and Two Motion Pictures about World War II" at the Film and History conference.

His research has garnered awards from the American Handel Society, London Handel Institute, and Presser Foundation. A tenor and an organist, he has served as Director of Music for a number of churches and has been featured on recitals in New York, Massachusetts, Kentucky, and Michigan.

His organ teachers include Mark Schell, Katie Pardee, Russell Saunders, Michael Farris, and Karl Schrock. He has also studied North Indian tabla with Jerry Leake and has recently begun to study the Native American flute.

Email: stanley.pelkey@wmich.edu