Mary Frandsen
Associate Professor of Music and German and Russian Languages and Literatures
Master of Sacred Music Program
Degrees
B.M., SUNY Potsdam; M.A., Ph.D., University of Rochester (Eastman School of Music)
Research Profile
Frandsen is a musicologist who specializes in issues related to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sacred music and liturgy, as well as musical patronage and genre development. Her first monograph, Crossing Confessional Boundaries: the Patronage of Italian Sacred Music in Seventeenth-Century Dresden, was published in 2006 by Oxford University Press. She has published articles in various journals and collections of essays and has delivered papers at national and international conferences. She has received fellowships from the ACLS and NEH. She is currently working on a study of hymnody at the seventeenth-century Dresden court, and a monograph on music and devotion in seventeenth-century Lutheranism. Her teaching interests include music of the Baroque and Classical periods, music of the Catholic tradition, and other topics.
Contact Information
105
Crowley Hall of Music
631-9391
frandsen.3@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~music/faculty/frandsen.html
