Dexter Edge (born in
Tacoma, Washington
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, 20 January 1953) is an American
musicologist
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...
.
Academic career
Dexter Edge attended
The Evergreen State College
The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college in Olympia, Washington. Founded in 1967, it offers a non-traditional undergraduate curriculum in which students have the option to design their own study towards a degree or follow a p ...
(BA, Interdisciplinary Arts). He studied music history at the
University of Southern California
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(1983-2001, Ph.D., 2001). He has taught music history at the
Louisiana State University
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1997-1999. 2002-2005 he was Senior Editor at the
Packard Humanities Institute (''The Complete Works of
Carl Philip Emanuel Bach''). He was a 2006 Fellow of the
American Council of Learned Societies, and the "William J. Bouwsma" Fellow at the
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(2006-2007). The recipient of an "Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship," Edge has published numerous scholarly articles on
Joseph Haydn
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and
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...
. He is an authority on Mozart’s autograph manuscripts and an accomplished pianist. His scholarly work has appeared in such publications as ''The Cambridge Opera Journal'', ''Revue de Musicologie'', ''Mozart Jahrbuch'', ''Eighteenth-Century Music'', and the ''Journal of the Royal Musical Association''. He has also presented papers at the Annual Meeting of the
American Musicological Society
The American Musicological Society (AMS) is a musicological organization which researches, promotes and produces publications on music. Founded in 1934, the AMS was begun by leading American musicologists of the time, and was crucial in legiti ...
, the
International Musicological Society
The International Musicological Society (IMS) is a membership-based organisation for musicology at the international level, with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. It seeks the advancement of musicological research through international coope ...
, and the
Mozart Society of America
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...
. Edge was also the executive editor of
MUSA (Music of the United States of America).
Since 2014, he has collaborated with David Black on an online edition in progress of newly discovered Mozart documents.
Mozart: New Documents
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Ph.D. thesis
*'' Mozart's Viennese Viennese may refer to:
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* Viennese people, List of people from Vienna
* Viennese German, the German dialect spoken in Vienna
* Music of Vienna, musical styles in the city
* Viennese Waltz, genre of ballroom dance
* ...
copyists.'' Ph.D. University of Southern California (2001) XLIV, 2416 p.
Editions
*''Le nozze di Figaro
''The Marriage of Figaro'' ( it, Le nozze di Figaro, links=no, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It prem ...
'' K. 492; facsimile of the autograph score, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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- Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Biblioteka Jagiellońska
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Kraków
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(Mus. ms. autogr. W. A. Mozart 492), Stanford University Library, the Juilliard School
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Library. Los Altos, California
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; Packard Humanities Institute; Kassel Bärenreiter, 2007.
*'' Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works''.
Research articles
*"Mozart's Fee for 'Così fan tutte'," ''Journal of the Royal Musical Association'' 116/2 (1991), 211-235.
*(with Janet K. Page), "A newly uncovered autograph sketch for Mozart's "Al desio di chi t'adora' K 577," ''The Musical Times'' 132 (1991), No. 1786, 601-606.
*"Mozart's Viennese orchestras," ''Early Music'' 20 (1992), 64-88.
*"Mozart's reception in Vienna, 1787-1791," in ''Wolfgang Amadè Mozart. Essays on his Life and his Music,'' ed. Stanley Sadie (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1996), 66-117.
*"A newly discovered autograph source for Mozart's aria, K. 365a (Anh. 11a)," ''Mozart-Jahrbuch 1996'' (Salzburg: Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum 1996), 177-196.
*"Recent Discoveries in Viennese Copies of Mozart's Concertos," in ''Mozart's Piano Concertos: Text, Context, Interpretation,'' ed. Neal Zaslaw (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996), 51-65.
*"Manuscript Parts as Evidence of Orchestral Size in the Eighteenth-Century Viennese Concerto," in ''Mozart's Piano Concertos: Text, Context, Interpretation'' ed. Neal Zaslaw (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996), 427-460.
*"Viennese music copyists and the transmission of music in the eighteenth century," ''Revue de musicologie'' 84/2 (1998), 298-304.
*"The digital imaging of watermarks," ''Computing in musicology'' 12 (1999-2000), 261-274.
*"Attributing Mozart. I: Three accompanied recitatives," ''Cambridge Opera Journal'' 13/3 (2001), 197-237.
*"Not Mozart, Not Zoffany. So . . . What?
Guest essay
in Michael Lorenz's musicology blog (2013).
Many are available through Edge'
profile
on academia.edu.
References
External links
WorldCat Dexter Edge
* ttp://www.gravell.org/watermarks/program/edge.html "The Study of Eighteenth-Century Music Paper: Problems and Prospects"
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American musicologists
University of Southern California alumni
Mozart scholars
Living people
1953 births