C. BENJAMIN ARNOLD JR.

School of Music
105 Fine Arts Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506–0022
(859) 257–4900—Office
(859) 257–9576—Fax
Ben.Arnold@uky.edu—E-mail

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Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

University of Kentucky
Ph.D., Musicology. Dissertation: “War, Peace, and the Apocalypse in Art Music Since World War II” (Advisor: Rey M. Longyear, 1986)
M.M., Piano Performance (Advisor: Lucien Stark, 1981)
B.M., Piano Performance (Advisor: Nathaniel Patch, 1977)

EXPERIENCE

School of Music, University of Kentucky: Full Professor (2003–) and Director, School of Music (2003–)

Department of Music, Emory University, Assistant Professor (1987–93), Director of Graduate Studies in Music (1991–94), Associate Professor with tenure (1993–2003), Acting Chair, Department of Music (Fall 1993), Chair, Department of Music (1994–2000)

Centre College: Instructor/Assistant Professor, part-time (1986-87)

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

The Liszt Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 2002. (Editor)

Music and War: A Research and Information Guide. New York: Garland, 1993.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS AND JOURNALS

“Visions and Revisions: Looking into Liszt’s ‘Lieder’” in Liszt and the Birth of Modern Europe: Franz Liszt Studies Series #9 (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon, 2003), 253-280.

“Liszt’s “Piano Music 1835–1861,” “Piano Music 1861– 1886,” and “Songs and Melodramas” in The Liszt Companion (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood, 2002), 73–138, 139–178, and 403–438.

“Franz Liszt: An Autobiographical and Virtuosic Revolution,” in Liszt the Progressive. Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music, vol. 72 (Lewiston-Queenston-Lampeter: Mellen Press, 2001), 3–13.

Two articles for The New Grove Dictionary, 2nd. ed., Stanley Sadie. (London: MacMillan, 2001): “Sidney Foster” and “Albert Spalding.”

“War and the Military in Music,” in The Oxford Companion To American Military History (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 457–460.

“Art Music and World War II,” in World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War’s Aftermath, with General Themes: A Handbook of Literature and Research (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood, 1998), 323– 333.

“Franz Liszt: the Reader, the Intellectual, the Musician,” in Analecta Lisztiana I: Liszt and His World. Franz Liszt Studies Series #5. (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon, 1998), 37–60.

“Music in Lancaster, Kentucky, 1885–1910: Local Talent, Touring Artists, and the Opera House,” in Music and Culture in America: 1861–1918 (New York and London: Garland, 1998), 197–220.

“Liszt and the Music of Revolution and War,” in Analecta Lisztiana II: New Perspectives on Liszt and His Music. Franz Liszt Studies Series #6. (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon, 1997), 225–238.

“Art Music and the Holocaust,” Holocaust and Church Struggle: Religion, Power and the Politics of Resistance. Studies in the Shoah XVI (Lanham, New York and London: University Press of America, 1996), 99–115. (Revision of article in Holocaust and Genocide Studies).

“Tradition and Growth in the Concertos of Nielsen,” in The Nielsen Companion (Portland, Oregon: Amadeus, 1995), 350–376.

“War Music and its Innovations,” The Music Review 55 n1 (February 1994): 52–57.

“Piano in the Home,” [social history] in Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments: The Piano (New York: Garland, 1993), 172–174.

“Art Music and the Holocaust,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 6 n4 (1991): 335–349.

“An Annotated Discography of Liszt Recordings,” in Michael Saffle, A Guide to Liszt Research (New York: Garland, 1991), 365–379.

“Wagner and Liszt: Borrowings, Theft, and Assimilation Before 1860,” Journal of the American Liszt Society 30 (July–December 1991): 3–20.

“Music, Meaning, and War: The Titles of War Compositions,” International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music: 22 n1 (June 1991): 19–28.

“War Music and the American Composer During the Era of the Vietnam War,” The Musical Quarterly 75 n3 (Fall 1991): 316–335.

“Liszt in Ireland (and Belgium): Reports From a Concert Tour,” Journal of the American Liszt Society 26 (July-December 1989): 3–11. (Co-authored with Michael Saffle).

“Georgy Sviridov,” in Biographical Dictionary of Russian/ Soviet Composers, ed. Allan Ho and Dmitry Feofanov (New York: Greenwood, 1989), 534–535.

“Recitative in Liszt’s Solo Piano Music,” Journal of the American Liszt Society 24 (July-December 1988): 3–22.

“The Role of Music in the U.S.S.R., the U.S.A., and Germany During World War II,” Emory Journal of International Affairs, 5 No. 1 (Spring 1988): 37–43.

Seven articles for The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, ed. H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie (London: MacMillan, 1986): “Akiro Endo”; “Sidney Foster”; “Ray Lev”; “Jerome Lowenthal”; “Albert Spalding”; “Tossy Spivakovsky”; “James Sykes.”

“Liszt Research and Recordings” 1982–1986, Journal of the American Liszt Society (Co-authored with Allan Ho):
20 (December 1986): 4–29
19 (June 1986): 23–42
18 (December 1985): 36–46
17 (June 1985): 24–38
16 (December 1984): 35–52
15 (June 1984): 105–138

EDITOR: Visiting Editor of The Journal of the American Liszt Society for volumes 26 and 27 (1989-90)

PAPERS PRESENTED at international meetings in Australia (1988), Canada (1996, 1998), Italy (1998), and Sweden (1996); Regional meetings of the American Musicological Society, (1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003), America Liszt Society Meetings (1983), and Chesapeake Chapter of the Music Library Association (1988)