Matt Kickasola
Office Phone: 724-847-6668
mlkickas@geneva.edu
Disciplines/Field of Instruction
- Musicology
- World Music
- Aural Skills
- Voice
Degrees Received
- Ph.D., Historical Musicology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2009
- M.A., Historical Musicology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2004
- M.M, Vocal Performance, Temple University, 2004
- B.M., Vocal Performance, Covenant College, 1999
Courses Taught
- MUS 310: Music History I
- MUS 210: Intro to Music Literature
- MUS 128, 228: Aural Skills I and III
Presentations/Publications
- "Northern Choralism and Bantock's 'Choral Symphony,'" in Music and the Idea of
the North, ed. by Rachel Cowgill, Derek Scott and David Russell, Ashgate Press,
forthcoming 2013.
- "Ways to Think about Music beyond Performance." East Central College lecture series,
28 October 2011.
- "'I need a forklift...': The Pilgrim's Progress as Metaphor for Life and Faith in Popular
Music." Festival of Faith and Music (Calvin College), 8 April 2011.
- "'Ever nearer the Celestial City': Darwin, Spenser, Bunyan and English Musical
Progress." Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship (Wheaton College), 18 March
2011.
- "Granville Bantock's Redefinition of the Choral Symphony." AMS Midwest Conference
(Chicago), 18 October 2009.
- "'The Great and Glorious Choruses of the North': The Northern Choirs, Bantock, and
his 'Choral Symphony.'" "Music and the Idea of the North Conference (Univ. of Leeds),
September 2008.
- "Granville Bantock and his Idea of the Choral Symphony." Washington University in St.
Louis Music Dept. lecture series, March 2008
Current Projects
- The intersection of Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and music, including oratorio, opera
and popular music
- The character of Jesus in 19th- and 20th-century oratorio and opera
- The role of the god Pan in music of the 19th and 20th centuries
- Frederick Corder: composer, educator, critic
Affiliations
- American Musicological Society
- North American British Music Studies Association
- Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship
- Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
