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Dr. Emily Green

Emily Green
Titles and Organizations

Associate Professor, MUSIC HISTORY, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA
Faculty Fellow for Curricular Innovation, CVPA

Contact Information

Campus: Fairfax
Building: de Laski Performing Arts Bldg
Room A419
Mail Stop: 3E3

Biography

Dr. Emily H. Green is a historian of musical culture and enjoys writing and teaching a across a variety of perspectives. In scholarship, her interests focus on Europe and the United States from 1750–1850, especially: publishing, performance practices, enslaved music making, women’s participation, celebrity, and Atlantic musical exchange.

She maintains an active publication profile. She has authored the book,  (Eastman Studies in Music, Univ. of Rochester Press, 2019) and has co-edited volume (with Catherine Mayes) Eastman Studies in Music, Univ. of Rochester Press, 2017). A major article on reading music appeared in the  in 2020. Other work has been published in Current Musicology, , Widmungen bei Haydn und Beethoven, and , as well as  and .

She has also published a guide for music educators who wish to think about bringing more historical Black American music into their studios and classrooms: ; as well as a  on that subject.

Aside from many of the history and culture courses in the undergraduate music major curriculum, she teaches graduate courses related to her research subjects: , Nineteenth-Century African American Music, Haydn in London, Song around 1800, and Performance Practice.

She has previously taught at Yale University’s Department of Music (as an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow), the Peabody Conservatory, Catholic University of America, and American University. Along with her spouse and 3 children, she is a proud resident of Falls Church City, Virginia.

Associate Professor of Music

  • Music History
  • Advanced Topics in Music History
  • Popular Music in America

Degrees

  • B.A., Cornell University
  • M.M., University of Missouri, Kansas City
  • M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University