Music historian Scott Warfield joined the faculty of the UCF music department in the fall of 2002. He holds the Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.S.Mus.Ed. degree from West Chester University. At UCF he teaches the history sequence for music majors, as well as other courses in music history and literature.
Warfield's primary research interest is in the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially the composer Richard Strauss. He has presented papers on Strauss at national meetings of the American Musicological Society (1992, 1996), the International Richard Strauss Conference (Duke University, 1990), the 11th and 13th Biennial Conferences on Nineteenth-Century Music (London, 2000, and Durham, 2004), the Symposium of the International Musicological Society (Melbourne, Australia, 2004), and the Dublin International Conference on Music Analysis (Dublin, 2005), as well as numerous regional meetings. His published articles and reviews on Strauss and other 19th-century topics have appeared in Richard Strauss Blätter, Music Library Association Notes, Fontes Artis Musicae, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Journal of Musicological Research, and elsewhere. His chapters on Strauss's instrumental music and the Strauss bibliography were recently published in The Richard Strauss Companion (Greenwood Press, 2003).
Warfield also has strong interests in the music of the United States. He has been a Fellow of the American Music Research Center at the University of Colorado, where he is engaged in a project that uses sheet music to study the early years (1880-1920) of the American musical theater. His chapter "From Hair to Rent: Is 'Rock' a Four-letter Word on Broadway?" appeared in The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge University Press, 2002 [2nd. ed. in preparation]).
In addition to his scholarly publications, Warfield writes frequently on music for general audiences. For nearly twenty years (1985-2004), he was the chief program annotator for the North Carolina Symphony, and he continues to write and lecture for other ensembles and venues, including as program annotator for Carnegie Hall. Since 2003, he has been a correspondent for the Orlando Sentinel, for whom he writes both reviews and feature articles on classical music.
Dr. Warfield is a member of the American Musicological Society, and he currently serves on the Committee on Career-Related Issues, as chair of the Committee on the Moderated Electronic Discussion List, and as the Southern Chapter Representative to the Council. During the academic year 2005-06 he is serving as the Lead Moderator of the AMS-L, the electronic discussion group of the AMS. He is also a member of the Society for American Music, the College Music Society, and the Internationale Richard Strauss Gesellschaft.
Prior to joining the faculty at UCF, Warfield held a visiting appointment on the faculty at Centre College (KY), and he also taught at colleges in North Carolina and Nebraska.
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