Andrew Moenning, Musicology

Andrew Moenning is a Musicology PhD candidate at Duke University. He holds a Master of Arts in Musicology from Duke University, a Master of Music in Piano Performance from Texas Christian University '20, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Stetson University '13. Andrew's dissertation project focuses on the life and works of the twentieth-century American composer, Ulysses Kay (1917–1995) and the intersections with discourses of race, nation, and style. His article on Kay's Song of Jeremiah (1947) and the Interracial Fellowship Chorus of New York City is in press at The Musical Quarterly (Oxford University Press). Andrew's secondary research interests have earned several awards; he was the recipient of the American Musicological Society's Southeast Chapter Student Presentation Award (2021) for his research on contemporary composer Gerhard Stäbler, and won the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music's Graduate Student Paper Prize (2023) for his work on form in rock music. 

Andrew is also an experienced classroom teacher, having served as the instructor of record for multiple undergraduate music and writing courses. As a pedagogue, Andrew believes in student-centered approaches to learning and consistently incorporates research-based educational practices in his lesson design. Andrew is currently completing the Certificate in College Teaching.

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Keywords:

Modernism (Music) • Music and race • Music--American influences • Musical analysis • Rock music--Analysis, appreciation

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Bass Instructional Fellowship: Instructor of Record, The Graduate School, Duke University, August, 2024
• Summer Research Fellowship (competitive), The Graduate School, Duke University, June, 2024
• Student Paper Prize, Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, March, 2023
• Student Presentation Award, American Musicological Society, Southeast Chapter, May, 2021