Christopher A. Reynolds
 chreynolds@ucdavis.edu 222D Music Building Office Hours R and F, 11 am – 12 pm 
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Professor of Musicology (Ph.D., Princeton University). Recipient of the UC
Davis Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (2000–01). Research
areas: music of 19th-century Germany, American music, and Renaissance music.
Reynolds' first book Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 (UC Press, 1995) and other studies were supported by fellowships from the ACLS, the NEH (twice), and two residencies at the Villa I Tatti in Florence. His book Motives for Allusion: Context and Content in Nineteenth-Century Music (Harvard, 2003) was written with the support of a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Motives for Allusion was named a finalist for the Otto Kinkeldey Award by the American Musicological Society (2004). He is a founding editor of the journal Beethoven Forum and was for many years a co-editor of I Tatti Studies, volumes devoted to studies of art, music, and literature in Renaissance Italy. Reynolds has held visiting professorships at several institutions, including Yale, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, and in Germany at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Goettingen. As an administrator, Reynolds has been chair of the Department of Music and chair of the faculty of the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis. From 2002–04, he was director of the UC Study Center at the University of Goettingen. Publications Women Song Composers: A Listing of Songs Published in the United States and England, c. 1890–1930: database and essay "Porgy and Bess: 'An American Wozzeck'," Journal of the Society for American Music, Volume 1, Issue 01, February 2007, pp. 1-28 |