Stanley C. Pelkey, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Music (Musicology) School of Music

Professional Experience

• School of Music, Western Michigan University (2005 - )
• Department of Music, Gordon College (1999-2005)
  

Education

• Ph.D. Historical Musicology, University of Rochester (Eastman School of Music), 2004
• MA European History, University of Rochester, 2006
• MA Historical Musicology, University of Rochester (Eastman School of Music), 1996
• BA (Organ Performance and Music History), Asbury College, 1994
• Additional training in applied music:
  • organ studies with Karl Schrock (Western Michigan University)
  • tabla studies with Jerry Leake (New England Conservatory)

Selected Publications

• Jeffrey Jackson and Stanley Pelkey, eds. Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines (University Press of Mississippi, 2005)

Recent Conference Presentations

• “The Classical Samuel Wesley as Seen and Heard in His Mature Piano Sonatas.” Paper read at the conference “Music, Cultural History and the Wesleys,” University of Bristol, United Kingdom (July 2007).
  
• “Musical Quotation, Keyboard Music, and British National Identity in the Long Eighteenth Century.” Paper read at the conference “Narrating the Eighteenth Century,” University of Exeter, United Kingdom (April 2007).
• “Designing Multimedia Projects for a ‘Music in Film’ Course.”  Paper read at the annual conference of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction, San Antonio, Texas (September 2006).  With Dr. Kenneth Smith (Western Michigan University).  
• “The Wesleys, Jung, and Wittgenstein: Unlikely Intersections in Aesthetics, Ethics, and Music Education.”  Paper read at the annual conference of the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan (February 2006).
• “Disruptive Musical Associations and Two Motion Pictures about World War II.”  Paper read at the conference “Film and History,” Dallas, Texas (November 2004). 
• “Handel and Bach in the Organ Voluntaries of Charles and Samuel Wesley.”  Paper read at the annual conference of the Midwest Chapter of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Louis, Missouri (October 2004). 

Research Areas

• British Music History
  • The Wesleys and Music
  • Handel and Handel Reception History
  • Music for Keyboard (ca. 1750 to ca. 1920)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Film and Film Music
• Late-Medieval Religious Thought in England
• Twentieth-Century Educational and Aesthetic Theories

Links to Course Homepages

MUS3520: Non-Western Music

Summer Workshop 2007

How to Contact Dr. Pelkey:

Stanley C. Pelkey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Music
Western Michigan University
School of Music
1903 W. Michigan Avenue
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008-5434
(269) 387-4725 (voice)
(269) 387-1113 (facsimile)
stanley.pelkey@wmich.edu