Dr. Gretchen Peters
Contact Information
121 Water St.
Eau Claire, WI 54701
Wednesdays 1-2
Thursdays 12:30-1:30
and by appointment
Biography
Dr. Peters' research interests are wide-ranging. She has done extensive work on urban musical culture in France during the late Middle Ages. In addition to authoring numerous articles on the subject, her book entitled The Musical Sounds of Medieval French Cities: Players, Patrons and Politics was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. Her interest in issues of diversity and inclusivity in music curriculum is reflected in her article, entitled "Do Students See Themselves in the Music Curriculum?: A Project to Identify Exclusionary Practices and to Create Greater Inclusion," which appeared in an issue of the Music Educators Journal (2016). Her interest in American Indian Studies is reflected in her recent publication entitled, "Unlocking the Songs: Marcie Rendon's Indigenous Critique of Frances Densmore's Native Music Collecting," American Indian Culture and Research Journal (2015). Currently, she is exploring the early twentieth-century opera by Alberto Bimboni, entitled Winona, which is based on Native American legend surrounding Maiden Rock on Lake Pepin. She has advised numerous faculty-student research projects ranging from issues of change in traditional music of the Hmong in Eau Claire to problems of race in Bizet's Carmen to issues of gender in the history of the music program at UW-EC.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- M.M., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- B.M., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Teaching and Research Interests
- Music History
- Global Traditions in Music
- Gender and Music
- American Indian Studies
- Music of urban medieval society
- Issues of diversity in curriculum
- Issues of appropriation of American Indian culture in music
- American music in the early twentieth century
Published Research
Book:
Musical Sounds in Late Medieval French Cities: Players, Patrons, and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Articles:
“Dijon’s Trumpet: A Request from the City to the Duke of Burgundy,” in The Museum of Renaissance Music, edited by Tim Shepherd (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publisher, 2023)
"The Significance of 'Real Indians' in the Minneapolis Performance of Winona," in Publication of Conference Papers of Intersections/Intersezioni, Florence, 2017, edited by Aloma Bardi, The International Center for American Music. (June, 2018)
“Do Students See Themselves in the Music Curriculum? A Project to Encourage Inclusion.” Music Educators Journal, Vol. 102, No.4, 2016: 22-29.
"Unlocking the Songs: Marcie Rendon’s Indigenous Critique of Frances Densmore’s Native Music Collecting.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Special Edition, Aesthetic Violence: Art and Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Vol.39, No.4 (2015): 79-92.
“Minstrels in Medieval French Cities.” Sidebar in A History of Western Music, 9th edition, edited by J. Peter Burkholder. Norton, 2014.
"Music in Late-Mediaeval Tour and Orléans: A Reflection of Political Allegiance in the Loire Valley." In Instruments, Ensembles, and Repertory, 1300-1600: Essays in Honour of Keith Polk, edited by Timothy McGee and Stewart Carter, pp.153-171. Brepols Collected Essays in European Culture, vol.4. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2013.
"Las redes sociales y profesionales de los ministriles de Montpellier, 1350-1500.” In Música y cultura urbana en la edad moderna. Edited by Andrea Bombi, pp.1007-113. Valencia: Universitat de València, 2005.
“Civic Subsidy and Musicians in Southern France During the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: A Comparison of Montpellier, Toulouse, and Avignon.” In Music and Musicians in Renaissance Cities. Edited by Fiona Kisby, 171-197. London: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
“Urban Minstrels in Late Medieval Southern France: Opportunities, Status, and Professional Relationships,” Early Music History (Cambridge University Press) 19 (2000): 201-235.
"Urban Musical Culture in Late Medieval Southern France: Evidence from Private Notarial Contracts,” Early Music (Oxford University Press), 25, No.3 (1997): 403-410.
Book Reviews:
Review of Instruments and their Music in the Middle Ages, edited by Timothy McGee. The Medieval Review (2010).
Review of Dictionnaire musical des villes de province, by François Lesure. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 58, No.3 (2002): 548-49.
Program Notes for Recordings:
Program Notes for CD. CHIAYU. Naxos Recordings, 2015.
Program Notes for CD. Les Favorites: Baroque Sonatas. Eau Claire, Wi.: Skyline Publications, 2005.