Mary Sue Morrow

Mary Sue Morrow

Professor of Musicology

Professional Summary

Mary Sue Morrow, Professor, is a musicologist whose research interests include 18th-century music, aesthetics and criticism, reception history, nationalism, and the sociology of music. She is the author of two books, German Music Criticism in the Late Eighteenth Century: Aesthetic Issues in Instrumental Music and Concert Life in Haydn’s Vienna: Aspects of a Developing Musical and Social Institution, and is the co-editor of and contributor to The Eighteenth-Century Symphony (in preparation for Indiana U. Press).

She has contributed to many books, including The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony (forthcoming); Musik und Bürgerkultur: Leipzigs Aufstieg zur Musikstadt; The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia; Florilegium Musicae: Studi in onore di Carolyn Gianturco; Oxford Composer Companions: Joseph Haydn; Analecta III: Liszt and the Birth of Modern Europe; Searching for Common Ground: Diskurse zur deutschen Identität 1750–1871; De Clavicordio IV; and Music and Culture in America, 1861–1918. Her articles and reviews have appeared in a variety of journals, including the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online, Eighteenth-Century Music, 19th-Century Music, Notes, The Beethoven Journal, The Musical Times, The Journal of Musicological Research and Music & Letters.

A past president of the Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society, she has served on various AMS standing committees and on the boards of the Mozart Society and the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music (as president from 2009-11). She has held a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship (1981–1982), an Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship (1991–1992), and a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Grant (2006–08). Dr. Morrow has taught previously at Loyola University New Orleans and the College of the Ozarks.

Education

MM: Northwestern University Evanston, IL,

BA: Rhodes College Memphis, TN,

PhD: Indiana University Bloomington, IN,

Research Support

Grant: #RZ-50602-06 Investigators:Morrow, Mary Sue 07-01-2006 -06-30-2008 National Endowment for the Humanities The Eighteenth-Century Symphony Role:PI $99,960.00 Closed Level:Federal

Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

Mary Sue Morrow (2006. ) Symphonies and Sitcoms: Rethinking Genre History with Mozart in Mind .Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology Online, , 6 (2 ) ,

Mary Sue Morrow (1995. ) Making it in the Big City: Beethoven’s First Decade in Vienna .The Beethoven Journal, , (10 ) ,46

Mary Sue Morrow (1990. ) Of Unity and Passion: The Aesthetics of Concert Criticism in Early Nineteenth-Century Vienna .19th-Century Music, , (13 ) ,193

Mary Sue Morrow (1989. ) Singing and Drinking in New Orleans: The Social and Musical Functions of Nineteenth-Century German Männerchöre .The Southern Quarterly, , (27 ) ,5

Mary Sue Morrow (1985. ) Mozart and Viennese Concert Life .The Musical Times, , (126 ) ,453

Published Books

Mary Sue Morrow and Bathia Churgin, eds. (2012. ) The Eighteenth-Century Symphony: The Symphonic Repertoire, Vol. 1 .Bloomington, IN , Indiana University Press

Mary Sue Morrow (1997. ) German Music Criticism in the Late Eighteenth Century: Aesthetic Issues in Instrumental Music .Cambridge and New York , Cambridge University Press

Mary Sue Morrow (1989. ) oncert Life in Haydn’s Vienna: Aspects of a Developing Musical and Social Institution .Stuyvesant, NY , Pendragon Press

Book Chapter

Mary Sue Morrow (2013 ) Other Classical Repertoires The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony .Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Mary Sue Morrow (2007 ) Grundlegende Aspekte der deutschen Musikkritik um 1800 Musik und Bürgerkultur: Leipzigs Aufstieg zur Musikstadt .(pp. 82).Leipzig, Edition Peters

Mary Sue Morrow (2006 ) Vienna The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia .(pp. 517).Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Mary Sue Morrow (2004 ) Italian Perspectives on Instrumental Music in the Late Eighteenth-Century Florilegium Musicae: Studi in onore di Carolyn Gianturco .(pp. 713).Pisa, Edizioni ETS

Mary Sue Morrow (2002 ) “Boßler, Heinrich,” “Cramer, Carl Friedrich,” “Hummel, Johann Julius,” and “Reception: Netherlands and North Germany.” Oxford Composer Companions .(pp. 22, 54, 159, 30).Oxford, Oxford University Press

Mary Sue Morrow (2002 ) Deconstructing Brendel’s New German Liszt Analecta III: Liszt and the Birth of Modern Europe: Music as a Mirror of Religious, Political, Social, and Aesthetic Transformation .(pp. 157).Stuyvesant, NY, Pendragon Press

Mary Sue Morrow (2000 ) Building a National Identity with Music: A Story from the Eighteenth Century In Searching for Common Ground: Diskurse zur deutschen Identität 1750–1871 .(pp. 255).Cologne, Weimar and Vienna, Böhlau

Mary Sue Morrow (2000 ) The Clavichord Resounds, or the Wider Influence of C. P. E. Bach’s Empfindsamer Keyboard Style De Clavicordio IV .(pp. 87).Magnano, Italy, Musica Antica a Magnano

Mary Sue Morrow (1999 ) Symphony: 18th Century: Italian Reader's Guide to Music: History .(pp. 707).Chicago, Fitzroy Dearborn

Mary Sue Morrow (1998 ) Somewhere between Beer and Wagner: The Cultural and Musical Impact of German-American Männerchöre in New York and New Orleans Music and Culture in America, 1861-1918 .(pp. 79).New York, Garland

Mary Sue Morrow (1990 ) Vierteljahrschrift für Musikwissenschaft,” “Archiv für Musikforschung” and “Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft.” International Music Journals .Westport, CT, Greenwood Press

Additional Publications

Presentations

Invited Presentations

Mary Sue Morrow (04-2009. ) Handel, Haydn, and History .Franklin College Musical Extravaganza, Franklin, IN. Level:University

Mary Sue Morrow (02-2003. ) Beethoven's Musical World .Humanities West Winter 2003 program ("Beethoven, Resonant Genius"), San Francisco, CA.

Lecture

Mary Sue Morrow (08-13-2000. ) Beethoven, 1803-1808 .Annandale on Hudson, NY. Other Institution.

Symposium

Mary Sue Morrow (12-2007. ) The Power and Perils of Using Criticism in Constructing a History of the Eighteenth-Century Symphony .Bergen, Norway. Other Institution. Level:Prof. Org.

Mary Sue Morrow (04-2005. ) The Beethoven Effect .Memphis, TN. Other Institution. Level:University

Mary Sue Morrow (10-28-2000. ) Confronting Beethoven .New York, NY. Other Institution.

Honors and Awards

Phi Beta Kappa Status:Recipient Level:National

2006 Eva Judd O'Meara Award For review of “Daniel Heartz, Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style 1720–1780.” Notes (June 2004): 958–61 Status:Recipient Level:Professional Org.

1989 NEH Scholarship Aston Magna Academy Status:Recipient Level:University Type:Monetary

1986 NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship at New York University Status:Recipient Level:University Type:Fellowship

2006 -2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Grant National Endowment for the Humanities Status:Recipient Level:Professional Org. Type:Grant

1991 -1992 Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship Status:Recipient Level:Professional Org. Type:Fellowship

1981 -1982 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to Vienna, Austria Status:Recipient Level:University Type:Fellowship