Matthew Kickasola

Disciplines/Field of Instruction

• Musicology
• World Music
• Aural Skills
• Humanities

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

• Music History I and II
• Introduction to Music Literature
• World Music
• Aural Skills I, II, III and IV
• Humanities 103 (Invitation to the Humanities)
• Humanities 203 (Ancient Greece through the Baroque)
• Humanities 303 (Enlightenment through the Present)
• Survey of the Music Industry
• Legal and Ethical Aspects of the Music Industry
• Book discussions on Dorothy Sayers and Franz Kafka
• Theology of the Arts (independent study)

Presentations/Publications

• Presented "'Ever nearer the Celestial City': Darwin, Spencer, Bunyan, and English Musical Progress." at the conference "The English Musical Renaissance and the Church." Durham University. November 2019.
• "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 2014.
• “Granville Bantock′s Redefinition of the Choral Symphony.”  AMS Allegheny Chapter (Akron), April 2013; AMS Midwest (Chicago), October 2009
• "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.
• "'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