Stephen Conrad Meyer

Stephen Meyer specializes in early nineteenth-century opera, film music, music history pedagogy, music and medievalism, and the history of recorded sound. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Music History Pedagogy

Ph.D: SUNY-Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY, 1996 (Music History)

Nineteenth-century opera
Film music
History of Recorded Sound
Music and Medievalism
Music History Pedagogy

2014 - Editor-in Chief, Journal of Music History Pedagogy,

1998 -2015 Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Music Histories, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

2015 - Associate Professor, Composition, Musicology, and Theory Division College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

2017 - Professor of Musicology, Promotion to Full Professor, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH

Grant: #BG-301379-24 Investigators:Doctor, Jenny; Fiol, Stefan; Kregor, Jonathan; Meyer, Stephen; Swift, Angela; Unger, Michael 10-01-2024 -12-31-2025 National Endowment for the Humanities Cincinnati Sounds: Exploring a Musical City's Spaces, Places and Sounds Role:Collaborator 190000.00 Awarded Level:Federal

Peer Reviewed Publications

 (2012). 'Leitmotif:' On the Application of a Word to Film Music. Journal of Film Music, 5 (1-2) , 99

 (2009). Illustrating Transcendence: Parsifal, Franz Stassen, and the Leitmotive. The Musical Quarterly, 92 (1-2) , 9

 (2009). Soundscapes of Middle Earth: The Question of Medievalist Music in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Films. Studies in Medievalism, XVIII, 165

 (2009). Parsifal's Aura. 19th-Century Music, 33 (2) , 151

 (2008). Sound Recording and the End of the Italian Lohengrin. Cambridge Opera Journal, 20 (1) , 1

Stephen C. Meyer  (2002). Terror and Transcendence in the Operatic Prison, 1790-1815. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 55 (3)

Stephen C Meyer  (2000). Marschner's Villains, Monomania, and the Fantasy of Deviance. Cambridge Opera Journal, 14 (2)

Other Publications

(2010) Der Freischütz and the Hunt .Amics del Liceu (the Friends of the Liceu, Barcelona Opera House) Season Book 2010-2011,

Published Books

Stephen C. Meyer (2015). Epic Sound: Music in Postwar Hollywood Biblical Films. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press. (Author)

Stephen C. Meyer (2003). Carl Maria von Weber and the Search for a German Opera. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press. (Author)

Meyer, Stephen C. and Kirsten Yri, eds. (2020). The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism. New York, NY, Oxford University Press. (Co-Editor)

Meyer, Stephen C., ed. (2016). Music in Epic Film: Listening to Spectacle. New York, NY, Routledge. (Editor)

Book Chapter

Stephen C. Meyer (2009). Technology and Aesthetics: Historically Informed Performance Practice and the Compact Disc. In Performance Practice: Issues and Approaches. Ann Arbor, Steglein

Stephen C Meyer (2020). “There and Back Again: Music for the Action Sequences in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Films” . In Sound Like Action!: Music in Action Film. New York, Routledge (Author)

Stephen C Meyer (2019). “The Double Life of Rózsa’s Violin Concerto and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” . In Double Lives: Film Music Composers in the Concert Hall. New York, Routledge (Author)

Stephen C Meyer (2019). “Teaching Music History in the Era of Polarization” . In Teaching the Music History Survey. New York, Norton (Author)

Encyclopedia Article

Stephen C. Meyer (2013) The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia .Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (Author)

Paper Presentations

Stephen C. Meyer (2016. ) The Politics of Authenticity in Miklós Rózsa’s Score to El Cid (1961) .Cleveland OH. Professional Meeting.

Stephen C. Meyer (2015. ) Sonic Elision and Fantastic Desire: The Ring of Power in Jackson's Lord of the Rings Films .Louisville KY. Professional Meeting. Level:International

Stephen C. Meyer (2015. ) Leaving the Wolf's Glen: Measuring Decanonization in the Digital Age .New York, NY. Professional Meeting. Level:International

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