Jonathan Bellman (born 1957) is a

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 ...

and pianist currently employed at the

University of Northern Colorado The University of Northern Colorado (UNC) is a public university in Greeley, Colorado. The university was founded in 1889 as the State Normal School of Colorado and has a long history in teacher education. The institution has officially change ...

. He is noted for his research on

exoticism Exoticism (from "exotic") is a trend in European art and design, whereby artists became fascinated with ideas and styles from distant regions and drew inspiration from them. This often involved surrounding foreign cultures with mystique and fanta ...

and music. Bellman is the author of ''The ‘Style hongrois’ in the Music of Western Europe'' (Boston
Northeastern University Press
1993, ) and of ''Chopin’s Polish Ballade: Op. 38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, URL= http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780195338867.do ). He was editor of ''The Exotic in Western Music''
Northeastern University Press
1997, ), a collection of essays. His contributions to that volume, "Hungarian Gypsies and the poetics of exclusion" and "Indian resonances in the British Invasion, 1965-1968," are cited in musicological literature. He has written numerous articles on topics related to music and exoticism in books such as ''Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style'' (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and in major musicological periodicals such as the ''Journal of the American Musicological Society,'' ''Musical Quarterly,'' ''Journal of Musicological Research,'' ''Journal of Musicology'', ''Early Music,'' and ''19th-Century Music.'' His articles and books have received citations in indicator-databases such as

Grove Music Online ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and the ...

Music Index EBSCO Information Services, headquartered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a private company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. EBSCO provides products and services to libraries of very many types around the ...

, and RILM. His book ''A Short Guide to Writing About Music'' (New York: Pearson Longman, 2000, 2nd edn 2007, ) is a style guide used in the field of music history pedagogy. He currently participates in the musicology blo
"Dial 'M' for Musicology."
As a pianist, in 2009, he premiered (with Lei Weng and Kiyoshi Tamagawa) a reconstruction of a piece jointly composed by Felix Mendelssohn and

Ignaz Moscheles Isaac Ignaz Moscheles (; 23 May 179410 March 1870) was a Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer. He was based initially in London and later at Leipzig, where he joined his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as professor of piano at the ...

, the "Fantasy and Variations for Two Pianos and Orchestra on the Gypsy March from

Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 17865 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic who was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas, ...

’s ''Preziosa''."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bellman, Jonathan Living people 1957 births American musicologists

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