Paul R. Laird (b. October 22, 1958) is an American musicologist originally born in Louisville, Kentucky. Musicology ( Greek: μουσική = "music" and λόγος = "word" or "reason" is the scholarly study of Music
Laird holds a Ph. D. in music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC, North Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, Coeducational Research His research interests include the Spanish and Latin American villancico, Leonard Bernstein, the Broadway musical, and cello. Villancico (or Vilancete, in Portuguese) was a common lyric form of the Iberian Peninsula during the Renaissance. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli —the c is tʃ He has taught at State University of New York at Binghamton and the University of Denver. The State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY Binghamton or Binghamton University is one of the four university centers in New York State’s system of The University of Denver ( DU) founded in 1864 is the oldest private University in the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States.
He directs the Instrumental Collegium Musicum and is active as a Baroque cellist, performing with the Spencer Consort. Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750. In August 2002, he won a University of Kansas W. T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence.
His current projects include a book on Bernstein's Chichester Psalms for the College Music Society Sourcebooks on American Music series and an historical dictionary of the Broadway musical, which he is writing with William A. Chichester Psalms is a choral work by Leonard Bernstein for boy treble or Countertenor, solo quartet choir and orchestra (3 trumpets in B 3 Everett.
As of 2006, Laird is the director of the Division of Musicology at the University of Kansas, where he has taught since 1994. The University of Kansas (often referred to as KU or just Kansas) is a public research university with campuses located in Lawrence, Kansas City
Publications
- Towards a History of the Spanish Villancico (Harmonie Park Press, 1997)
- Leonard Bernstein: A Guide to Research (Routledge, 2002)
- The Baroque Cello Revival: An Oral History (Scarecrow Press, 2004)
- Res musicae: Essays in Honor of James W. Pruett (Harmonie Park Press, 2001; co-editor)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge University Press, 2002; co-editor)
Laird has contributed to:
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed. )
- Anuario musical
- Nassarre
- Revista de Musicología
- Early Music
- Australian Journal of Musicology
- CMS Symposium
- MLA Notes
- Historical Performance
- American Music
- American Record Guide
- Continuo Magazine
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