Matthew S Mugmon

Interests

Teaching

20th Century Music, American Music, Symphonic Literature, Opera History

Research

20th Century Music, American Music, Symphonic Literature, Medieval Music, Music History Pedagogy, Music and Politics

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Mugmon, M. S. (2019). Aaron Copland and the American Legacy of Gustav Mahler. University of Rochester Press.

Chapters

• Mugmon, M. S. (2017). Abridging Mahler's Symphonies: A Historical Perspective. In Rethinking Mahler. Oxford University Press.

Journals/Publications

• Mugmon, M. S. (2018). An Imperfect Mahlerite: Nadia Boulanger and the Reception of Gustav Mahler. Journal of Musicology.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2014). Patriotism, Art, and “The Star-Spangled Banner” in World War I: A New Look at the Karl Muck Episode. Journal of Musicological Research, 33(1–3), 4-26.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2013). Beyond the Composer-Conductor Dichotomy: Bernstein's Copland-Inspired Mahler Advocacy. Music & Letters, 94(4), 606-627.
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  Please note: This article officially appears in the November 2013 issue of the journal, but it was not published until January 2014.

Proceedings Publications

• Kelly, T. F., Mugmon, M. S., Library, H., & Kelly, T. F. (2010). Ambrosiana at Harvard : new sources of Milanese chant. In Ambrosiana at Harvard: new sources of Milanese chant.
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  This collection of ten essays constitutes the proceedings of a two-day conference held at Harvard in October 2007. The conference focused on three medieval manuscripts of Ambrosian chant owned by Houghton Library. The Ambrosian liturgy and its music, practiced in and around medieval Milan, were rare regional survivors of the Catholic Church's attempt to adopt a universal Roman liturgy and the chant now known as Gregorian. Two of the manuscripts under scrutiny had been recently acquired (one perhaps the oldest surviving source of Ambrosian music), and the third manuscript, long held among the Library's collections of illuminated manuscripts, had been newly identified as Ambrosian. The generously illustrated essays gathered here represent the work of established experts and younger scholars. Together they explore the manuscripts as physical objects and place them in their urban and historical contexts, as well as in the musical and ecclesiastical context of Milan, Italy, and medieval Europe.

Presentations

• Mugmon, M. S. (2022).

  Transatlantic Resonances: Mahler and the Music of American Composers.

  . The Compositional Reception of Gustav Mahler. Toblach, Italy: Gustav Mahler Research Centre.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2020, October). Bernstein, Mahler, and Racial Justice. University of Iowa Musicology Colloquium.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2020, Summer). The Prophet and the Preacher: Mahler's Role in Bernstein's Jewish Imagination. Society for American Music (Virtual).
• Mugmon, M. S. (2019, March). Mahler, Bernstein, and Jewish Identity. 2019 Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Conference. El Paso, TX: University of Texas, El Paso; American Musicological Society, Rocky Mountain Chapter.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2018, Feb. 28 to March 4). Bernstein, Bach, and Rock: Constructing a Tonal Heritage for Modern Music,. Society for American Music Annual Conference.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2018, February). Bernstein, Mahler, and Jewish Identity. Bernstein at 100. Colorado Springs, CO: Colorado College.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2018, November). The Stuff of Living Music: Aaron Copland and the American Legacy of Gustav Mahler. German Studies Colloquium Series. UA German Studies.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2018, October). Bernstein, Mahler, and Jewish Identity. "Thinking About Music" Lecture Series. University of Cincinnati - College-Conservatory of Music.
• Story, B. H., Mugmon, M. S., & Dan, K. (2018, March 2018). Soundscape: The UA's remarkable chimes and echoes. Society for Ethnomusicology, Rocky Mountain Scholars Conference. Tucson, AZ: Society for Ethnomusicology.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2017, April 22). Bernstein, Bach, and Rock: Constructing a Tonal Heritage for Modern Music. Bach Festival and Symposium (Biennial Event). University of Massachusetts Amherst.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2016, January). Sibelius in New York: An Archival Exploration (Invited Lecture). New York Philharmonic: Insights at the Atrium. David Rubinstein Atrium at Lincoln Center.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2016, March). Bicentennial Ambivalence: Carter's Symphony of Three Orchestras and Rochberg's Symphony No. 4 as Sites of Commemoration and Critique. Society for American Music Annual Conference. Boston, MA.
• Mugmon, M. (2015, January 12). Jewish or American? Ernest Bloch and his Rhapsodies. Shaol and Louis Pozez Jewish Fine Arts Symposium. FFSOM, Room 146: Arizona Center for Judaic Studies.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2015, March). Bernstein's "Wrong Notes" as Modernist Markers. Society for American Music, Annual Meeting. Sacramento, Calif..
• Mugmon, M. S. (2015, November). The Making of an American Symphonic Repertoire. The American Musicological Society. Louisville, KY: The American Musicological Society.
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  I spoke as part of a panel I organized, which brought together leading scholars in American music, all of whom are contributing to the newest volume of The Symphonic Repertoire, to be published by Indiana University Press.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2015, September 23). Copland, Mahler, and the Hidden Ancestry of American Music. NEH Lecture Series - Colorado College. Colorado College - Packard Hall: NEH Professorship Event Series - Colorado College.
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  This was an invited talk at Colorado College.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2014, April). Copland's (Self)-Defense of Mahler as Jewish Composer. American Musicological Society, Rocky Mountain Chapter Annual Meeting, Plenary Session. Tempe, Ariz. (Arizona State University).
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  This paper was selected for the conference's plenary session.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2014, February). Copland, Mahler, and the Hidden Ancestry of American Music. Critical Studies Colloquium. School of Music, University of Arizona: University of Arizona — Composition, Musicology, and Theory Area.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2014, June). Copland's (Self)-Defense of Mahler as Jewish Composer. Biennial Scholars' Conference on American Jewish History. Decatur, Ga.: American Jewish Historical Society; Emory University.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2014, October). Copland's (Self)-Defense of Mahler as Jewish Composer. Conference on Jewish Music and Identity. Youngstown, Ohio: Youngstown State University.

Reviews

• Mugmon, M. S. (2023. Review of Mahler in Context, edited by Charles Youmans

              77–82

  (pp 77-82). Nachrichten zur Mahler-Forschung 76.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2016. Review of Leonard Bernstein: A Guide to Research. Fontes Artis Musicae (International Association of Music Libraries).
• Mugmon, M. S. (2016. Review of Neoclassicism in America: Voices of Clarity and Restraint, by R. James Tobin. Notes.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2015. Review of David C. Paul, Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer. Society for American Music Bulletin.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2015. Review of Stephen Downes, After Mahler: Britten, Weill, Henze and Romantic Redemption. Notes, the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2014. Review of Beth Levy, Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West. Journal of the American Music Research Center.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2014. Review of Gayle Murchison, The American Stravinsky: The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921–1938(pp Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 578–581). Journal of the Society for American Music.
• Mugmon, M. S. (2014. Review of Joseph Horowitz, Moral Fire: Musical Portraits From America's Fin de Siècle. Journal of the Society for American Music.