Thomas Brothers
| Title: | Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Music |
| Office Location: | 071 Mary Duke Biddle |
| Office Phone: | +1 919 660 3309 |
| Email Address: | tdb@duke.edu |
| Web Page: | http://www.duke.edu/~tdb/ |
- Office Hours:
- Tuesdays, 10 a.m. - 12 noon
Education
- PhD University of California, Berkeley, 1991
- M.A. University of California at Berkeley, 1982
- B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1979
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Fellow at the National Humanities Center, 2003
- Fellow at the John Hope Franklin Institute, Duke University, 2001-2002
- Fellow at Harvard's Villa I Tatti, Research Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, 1999 - 2000
- Junior Faculty Research Leave, Duke University, Fall 1994
- "AMS 50" Dissertation Fellow, 1989 - 1990
- Gabriel Charlebois Scholarship, University of California at Berkeley, 1988
- Passed Comprehensive Exams for Ph.D. with Distinction, University of California at Berkeley, 1988
- Alfred Hertz Memorial Fellowship, 1987
- Alfred Hertz Memorial Fellowship, 1980
Teaching (Fall 2008):
- Music 155s.01, Mus hst i: to 1650
Synopsis
- Biddle 069, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- Music 227.01, Music 20th century (top)
Synopsis
- Biddle 069, Tu 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
Recent Professional Work:
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- Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals. 2006 .
- "Flats and Chansons in MS Florence, B.N., P. 26." MS Chantilly 564 (2007).
- T. Brothers. "“New Orleans and the African Musical Diaspora,”." (2007). [author's comments]
- All of Me: The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong by Jos Willems. ASRC Journal (forthcoming).
- T. Brothers, Review of Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band by Lawrence Gushee. Journal of the American Musicological Society fall 2006 (2007): 747-754.
Other Activities:
- Editorial board member for Black Music Research Journal, 2004-present