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Past Member

W. Anthony Sheppard

Edward T. Cone Member in Music Studies; Funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Musicology
From
Tony Sheppard is investigating how composers and performers of vocal music wielded timbre as a tool of expression in the mid-twentieth century. This historical project is based on a comparative analysis of art and popular examples and will offer new approaches to studying the role of musical timbre more generally.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

Princeton
Ph.D.
1996
Amherst College
B.A.
1991