Dr. Jonathan Bellman
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Professor of Music
Music History and Literature
Head, Academic Studies Area
Frasier 155
970-351-2151
jonathan.bellman@unco.edu
Jonathan Bellman is the Area Head of Academic Studies in Music, and Professor of Music History and Literature. He earned piano performance degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Illinois, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance Practices at Stanford University in 1990. He joined the UNC faculty in 1993.
His newest book, Chopin’s Polish Ballade: Op. 38 as Narrative of National Martyrdom, is being published by Oxford University Press in fall 2009. His first two books, The Style Hongrois in the Music of Western Europe (1993), and The Exotic in Western Music (1998; a collection of essays by himself and others), were published by Northeastern University Press; his third book, A Short Guide to Writing about Music (2000; 2nd Ed. 2007) is a textbook published by Longman. His articles and reviews have appeared in, among other publications, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Nineteenth-Century Music, Early Music, Historical Performance, and The Journal of Musicology. He is also one of the writers for the musicology weblog Dial M for Musicology,musicology.typepad.com/dialm . His research interests include musical exoticism and the music and performance practices of Frédéric Chopin.
He also still performs occasionally, and in spring 2009 premiered the reconstruction of a piece jointly composed in in 1833 by Felix Mendelssohn and Ignaz Moscheles, the Fantasy and Variations for Two Pianos and Orchestra on the Gypsy March from Weber’s “Preziosa”.