Professor Emeritus of musicology. Abitur in classical languages, Athenaeum Stade, Germany; state examination in Schulmusik, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Berlin; state examination in history, Freie Universität, Berlin; PhD in musicology, Case Western Reserve. Specialties in 19th- and 20th-century music. Author of articles and reviews in MLA Notes, Comparative Literature, Aurora (Eichendorff Yearbook), Journal of Music Theory, Journal of Musicological Research, Fontes artis musicae, Theory and Practice, American Choral Review, Opera Quarterly, Mendelssohn and Schumann Essays, Music History through Sources, The German Lied (ed. Hallmark), and Essays for Charles Warren Fox; co-translator, The Art of Strict Musical Composition [1771-1779] by J.P. Kirnberger, and Schenker, Counterpoint; co-editor, four volumes in the Schoenberg Gesamtausgabe; editor, 100 Years of Eichendorff Songs. Several awards by the Music Library Association (1978, 1980); Deems Taylor Award, 1983; Special Citation, SMT, 1989; Rayburn Wright Award, 1994. Lectures in North America, Australia, Europe, and South Korea. Faculty member, Oberlin (1973), Eastman (1973-).