Timothy Steele
Dr. Timothy Steele
Office: Spoelhof Center 343
Phone: (616) 526-8523
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Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
B.Mus.Ed., Music Education, magna cum laude, Temple University, 1981.
M. Mus., Music History and Literature, Temple University, 1983.
Ph.D., Musicology, University of Chicago, 1993.Dissertation: "The Latin Psalm Motet, CA. 1460-1520: Aspects of the Emergence of a New Motet Type." 2 vols. Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1993 (UMI no. T32202)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, Department of Music History, Temple University College of Music, 1981-83.
Instructor of Music, Palm Beach Atlantic College, 1990-93.
Assistant Professor of Music, Palm Beach Atlantic College, 1993-97.
Associate Professor of Music, Covenant College, 1997-2007ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCECoordinator, Department of Music, Palm Beach Atlantic College, 1995-97.
Chair, Department of Music, Covenant College, 2001-04.
Dean, Division of Arts and Letters, Covenant College, 2002-2007.COURSES TAUGHT
Music History (Palm Beach Atlantic College and Covenant College)
Music Theory (Palm Beach Atlantic College and Covenant College)
Introduction to Music Literature (Palm Beach Atlantic College)
Music Appreciation (Temple University, Palm Beach Atlantic College and Covenant College)
Form and Analysis (Palm Beach Atlantic College and Covenant College)
Counterpoint (Palm Beach Atlantic College and Covenant College)
Orchestration (Covenant College)
Symphonic Literature (Covenant College)
Hymnology (Covenant College)
Music in Contemporary Culture (Palm Beach Atlantic College)
Art and Music in the Cultural Heritage of the West (Covenant College)
Seminar for Senior Integration Paper in Music (Covenant College)HONORS AND AWARDS
Graduate Assistantship, Temple University College of Music, 1981-83.
MIlton Sutter Award in Music History, Temple University College of Music, 1983.
University of Chicago Graduate Scholarship, 1983-86.
Jacob Javits Graduate Fellowship, 1986-1990.
Julius Herford Prize for Distinguished Doctoral Research in Choral Music, 1993, Honorable Mention.
NEH Summer Seminar Stipend, Brandeis University, 1995.
Lilly Endowment Sabbatical Research Grant, 2005.PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH PROJECTS
"Tonal Coherence and the Cylce of Thirds in Josquin's Memor esto verbi tui." In Tonal Structures in Early Music, ed. Cristle Collins Judd, 155-81. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998
Review of The Susato Motet Anthologies, 4 vols.,Sixteenth-Century Motet, 15-18, edited by Richard Sherr (New York: Garland, 1995-97). In Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 59/2 (December 2002): 445-49.
Index of Sixteenth-Century Psalm Motets (Unpublished research).PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
"Traces of Liturgical Psalmody in the Earliest Psalm Motets." American Musicological Society, Southern Chapter, Florida State University, March 4-5, 1994.
"The Cycle of Thirds and Tonal coherence in Josquin des Prez's Memor esto verbi tui." Symposium "Tonal Structures in Early Music," University of Pennsylvania, March 29-30, 1996.
"The Arts In Historical Perspective," and "The Christian Mind Encounters the Arts." Eastern Consortium of Classical Christian Schools, Covenant College, June 18-19, 2001.
"Reading the Psalms: Sixteenth Century Psalm Motets as Devotional Literature." Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania, March 29, 2003.LECTURES AND OTHER PAPERS
"The Musicologist in the Mirror: Reflections of Faith and Discipline." Three-year contract paper presented to the Covenant College Faculty Status Committee, September 12, 2002.
"The Faithful Imagination." Presented for the inauguration of Dr. Niel B. Nielson, Covenant College, October 4, 2002.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
CONDUCTING EXPERIENCE
ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE ACADEMIC SERVICE
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
COMMUNITY SERVICE
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
