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Graeme M. Boone
Associate Professor, School of Music
Areas of Expertise
• Renaissance music history
• American popular music
• Jazz
Professor Boone’s primary specialization is in Renaissance music.
A native of San Francisco, he was educated in California, Paris and Boston,
and taught at Haverford College at Harvard University. He wrote his dissertation
on the songs of Guillaume Dufay, and has written articles and a monograph
on subjects involving paleography, musical analysis and the relationship
between poetry and song. Professor Boone has pursued interests in American
popular music and its underlying folk traditions, and in ethnomusicology.
He co-edited a book of essays on the analysis of rock music (UNDERSTANDING
ROCK, 1997) and a book of writings in jazz history. As a professor, he
has a wide range of music courses, and as a performer, specializes in
guitar, banjo and other American folk instruments.
Education
• PhD, Musicology, Harvard University
• BA, Music, University of California, Berkeley
• First Prize (Premier Prix), National Superior Conservatory of
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