Dr. Peter A. Mondelli
University of North Texas
Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology
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Education

PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
Major: Music
Degree Specialization: Music History
Dissertation Title: From Voice to Text: Parisian Opera and Material Culture, 1790-1870
BA, Columbia University, 2004.
Major: Music

Professional Positions

Academic - Post-Secondary
Assistant Professor, University of North Texas. (July 2012 – Present).
Instructor, West Chester University. (August 2011May 2012).
Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania. (September 2011December 2011).
Instructor, University of Delaware. (August 2010May 2011).

Professional Memberships

Member, College Music Society. (2010 – Present).

Member, American Musicological Society. (2005 – Present).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
MUGC 5950, Master's Thesis, 8 courses.
MUGC 6950, Doctoral Dissertation, 20 courses.
MUMH 3510, Music History and Literature Since 1750, 25 courses.
MUMH 4070, Operatic Literature, 6 courses.
MUMH 4900, Special Problems, 1 course.
MUMH 4920, Senior Thesis in Music History, 1 course.
MUMH 5010, Introduction to Research in Music, 5 courses.
MUMH 5030, Advanced Issues in Music Research, 3 courses.
MUMH 5110, History of Opera, 3 courses.
MUMH 5342, Western Music History 1800 1900, 8 courses.
MUMH 5510, Music History and Literature since 1750, 6 courses.
MUMH 5711, Seminar in Musicology, 1 course.
MUMH 5900, Special Problems, 3 courses.
MUMH 6000, Seminar in Musicology, 2 courses.
MUMH 6160, Major Composers, 1 course.
MUMH 6760, Music of the Romantic Era, 9 courses.
MUMH 6900, Special Problems, 5 courses.

Directed Student Learning

Dissertation Committee Member, Keyboard Studies. (2022 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, Keyboard Studies. (2022 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (2022 – Present).

Related Field Professor, Instrumental Studies. (2022 – Present).

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Chair, Composition Studies. (2022 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, Vocal Studies. (2020 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, Vocal Studies. (20182023).

Dissertation Committee Member, Keyboard Studies. (20212022).

Dissertation Committee Member, Keyboard Studies. (20212022).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20202022).

Dissertation Committee Chair, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20182022).

Dissertation Committee Chair, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20182022).

Related Field Professor, Keyboard Studies. (20212021).

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Chair, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20212021).

Dissertation Committee Member, Instrumental Studies. (20202021).

Dissertation Committee Member, Vocal Studies. (20202021).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20202021).

Related Field Professor, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20142021).

Dissertation Committee Member, Instrumental Studies. (20192020).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20192020).

Dissertation Committee Chair, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20152020).

Related Field Professor, Instrumental Studies. (20192019).

Related Field Professor, Instrumental Studies. (20192019).

Dissertation Committee Member, Instrumental Studies. (20182019).

Dissertation Committee Member, Keyboard Studies. (20182019).

Dissertation Committee Member, Keyboard Studies. (20182019).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20182019).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20182019).

Dissertation Committee Member, Instrumental Studies. (20172019).

Related Field Professor, Instrumental Studies. (20152019).

Dissertation Committee Member, Instrumental Studies. (20162018).

Dissertation Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20162018).

Related Field Professor, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20162018).

Related Field Professor, Instrumental Studies. (20132018).

Dissertation Committee Member, Instrumental Studies. (20172017).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20172017).

Dissertation Committee Member, Vocal Studies. (20162017).

Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Music Education. (20162017).

Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Instrumental Studies. (20162017).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20152017).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Composition Studies. (20142016).

Related Field Professor, Vocal Studies. (20142016).

Dissertation Committee Chair, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20132016).

Dissertation Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (20152015).

Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Instrumental Studies. (20132014).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Composition Studies. (20132014).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Vocal Studies. (20132014).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book Chapter
Mondelli, P. A., Green, E., Mayes, C. (2017). Parisian Opera between Commons and Commodity, ca. 1830. Consuming Music: Individuals, Institutions, Communities, 1730-1830. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
Book Review
Mondelli, P. (2022). [Book Review] Hervé Lacombe, ed., Histoire de l’opéra français: Du Consulat aux débuts de la IIIe République (Fayard, 2020). Nineteenth-Century Music Review. 19(2), 348-357. Cambridge University Press.
Mondelli, P. A. (2016). [Book Review] David M. Powers, "From Plantation to Paradise? Cultural Politics and Musical Theatre in French Slave Colonies, 1764–1789" (East Lansing: MSU, 2014). Early American Literature. 50(1), . Raleigh, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
CD Review
Mondelli, P. A. (2016). [CD Review] Daniel Auber, "La muette de Portici" (CPO 7776942). Nineteenth-Century Music Review. ineteenth-Century Music Review. 13(2), . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Encyclopedia Article
Mondelli, P. A., Heidlberger, F. M. (2021). Various entries. Lexikon des Orchesters. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag.
Mondelli, P. A. (2013). Various entries. The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed.. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Journal Article
Mondelli, P. A. (2018). Singing Print, Reading Song: Navigating Voice and Writing in Herder's Volkslieder. The German Quarterly. 91(4), 377-388. Wiley.
Mondelli, P. A. (2018). From the Bel Canto Stage to Reality TV: A Musicological View of Opera’s Child Prodigy Problem. Journal of Singing. 75(1), 7-15. Jacksonville, FL: National Association of Teachers of Singing.
Mondelli, P. A. (2017). Offenbach’s Bouffonnerie, Wagner’s Rêverie: The Materiality and Politics of the Ineffable in Second Empire Paris. The Opera Quarterly. 32(2), . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mondelli, P. A. (2016). The Phonocentric Politics of the French Revolution. Acta Musicologica. 88(2), . Basle: Bärenreiter-Verlag.
Mondelli, P. A. (2013). The Sociability of History in French Grand Opera: A Historical Materialist Perspective. 19th-Century Music. 37(1), . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Translation or Transcription
Heidlberger, F. M., Mondelli, P. A. (2021). Jacques Offenbach. Encyclopedia of the Orchestra, original: Lexikon des Orchesters. Laaber: Laaber.
Heidlberger, F. M., Mondelli, P. A. (2021). Vincent d"indy. Encyclopedia of the Orchestra, original: Lexikon des Orchesters. Laaber: Laaber.

Presentations Given

Guest Lecturer

Mondelli, P. (Leader), Wagner a rebours, University of Cincinatti College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinatti, OH, United States of America. (2020).

Invited Talk

Mondelli, P. (Author & Presenter), Musicology Colloquium, The Musical Canon as Capitalist Commodity: Outlining a 200-Year History, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX (via Zoom), United States of America. (2021).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), Musicology and Ethnomusicology Lecture Series, Music and the Posthuman: A Critical Reconsideration, University of Texas - Austin, Austin, TX, United States of America. (2017).

Keynote/Plenary Address

Mondelli, P. (Panelist), Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference 2019, On Musical Monumentality in the Ninteenth Century, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States of America. (20192019).

Paper

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), France: Musique, Cultures 1789-1918 Conference, Beyond "National" and "Cosmopolitan": Weber's Der Freischutz in Translation in Paris, 1850-1870, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. (20232023).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), Gender, Sexuality, and Eroticism on the Lyric Stage, Bordenave's Brothel, or, What Use is Emile Zola to the Operetta Historian?, Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca, Italy. (20222022).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), Meeting of the Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Bordenave's Brothel, or, What Use is Emile Zola to the Operetta Historian?, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States of America. (20222022).

Mondelli, P. (Author & Presenter), 86th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Richard Wagner, Maurice Schlesinger, and the Labor of Music Publishing, American Musicological Society, Virtual (originally Minneapolis, MN), United States of America. (20202020).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), The Idea of the Canon in the Twenty-First Century, The Musical Canon as Capitalist Commodity: Outlining a 200-Year History, Smith College, Northampton, MA, United States of America. (20182018).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), Music History and Historical Materialism, Rethinking Alienation through Music in Benjamin’s Paris, Ernst Bloch Center for German Thought, University of London, London, UK, United Kingdom. (2018).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), 4th Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History - Music History and Cosmopolitanism, "Der Freischutz," "Robin des bois," and the Cosmopolitan Aesthetics of Translation, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland, Finland. (20162016).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), EZ Music, Contextualizing Rossini's "musique facile", University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States of America. (20162016).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), 62nd Society for French Historical Studies Conference, Warfare and Opera as Spectacle in the Parisian Press, 1852-1870, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States of America. (20162016).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), Current Musicology 50th Anniversary Conference, Faust at the Piano: The Social Economy of Opera in the New Domestic Sphere, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America. (20152015).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), 2015 NCSA Conference - Material Cultures/ Material Worlds, Faust at the Piano: The Social Economy of Opera in the New Domestic Sphere, Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Boston, MA, United States of America. (20152015).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), 18th Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, Faust at the Piano: The Social Economy of Opera in the New Domestic Sphere, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. (20142014).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, The Thingness of French Wagnerism, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, United States of America. (20132013).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), AMS Southwest Meeting, Veron, Schlessinger, and the Commodification of French Grand Opera, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX, United States of America. (20132013).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), Consuming Music, Commodifying Sound, Veron, Schlessinger, and the Commodification of French Grand Opera, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America. (20122012).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), RMA Annual Conference - Love to Death: Transforming Opera, Massenet's "Esclarmonde" and the Thingness of French Wagnerism, Royal Musical Association, Cardiff, UK, United Kingdom. (20122012).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), The Ghost in the Machine: Technologies, Performances, Publics, What is "Technological Reproducibility" in Music?: Reassessing the Material History of Music through fin-de-siecle Paris, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. (20112011).

Mondelli, P. A. (Presenter), Correspondences: Exchanges and Tensions between Art, Theatre, and Opera in France, ca. 1750-1850, Engraving Opera: The Case of Rossini and the Parisian Public Sphere, National Gallery, London, UK, United Kingdom. (20102010).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), Colloquium, Engraving Opera: The Case of Rossini and the Parisian Public Sphere, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America. (2010).

Mondelli, P. A. (Presenter), 4th Annual ECHO Conference - Music and Humor, Jacques Offenbach and the Material Origins of Modern Vocal Nonsense, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America. (20092009).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), 44th International Congeress on Medieval Studies, Musicology as Catholicism and Nationalism in fin-de-siecle France: Revisiting Pierre Aubry and the Modal Theory, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States of America. (20092009).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship, Musicology as Catholicism and Nationalism in fin-de-siecle France: Revisiting Pierre Aubry and the Modal Theory, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, United States of America. (20092009).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), AMS Greater New York Meeting, Singing History in Paris: The Case of Auber's "Muette de Portici", New York, NY, United States of America. (2008).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), Herder, Music, and Enlightenment: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Singing Print, Reading Song: Navigating Voice and Writing in Herder's Volkslieder, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America. (20082008).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), SEM Niagara/ AMS Alleghany Joint Meeting, The German Volkslied and the Other Nationalism of the Early Romantics: Notes on the Discursive Transformation of Orality in German Music, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, United States of America. (20072007).

Mondelli, P. A. (Author & Presenter), Uniting Sound and Text, The German Volkslied and the Other Nationalism of the Early Romantics: Notes on the Discursive Transformation of Orality in German Music, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America. (20072007).

Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits

Music Performance - Participation. Joyner, W. H., Cobos, A., Garcia, N., Hall, L., Maret, J. C., Mondelli, P., Murdoch, H., Nelson, M., Porras, M. A., Ryland, N., "2ème Mélange Musical," Joyner Voice Studio, Denton, TX, United States of America. (November 17, 2018).

Awards and Honors

Nominated for: NEH Summer Stipend, NEH. (2017 – Present).

Scholarly and Creative Activities, UNT College of Music. (20172018).

Incentives for Global Research Opportunities Global Start-Up Grant, UNT International. (20162016).

Service

University Service

Committee Member, Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of Faculty with Disabilities. (August 2021 – Present).

Committee Chair, MUMH Assistant Professor Search Committee. (November 2022April 2023).

Committee Chair, Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of Faculty with Disabilities. (August 2022April 2023).

Faculty Advisor, Mu Phi Epsilon. (August 2022April 2023).

Committee Member, University Grievance Committee. (December 2020August 2022).

Committee Member, English Lecturer Search Committee. (May 2022).

Committee Member, MHTE Division Personnel Affairs Committee. (August 2019May 2022).

Committee Member, MUMH Assistant Professor Search Committee. (September 2021April 2022).

Committee Member, MUED Division Personnel Affairs Committee. (January 2021May 2021).

Committee Member, Graduate Council. (August 2020May 2021).

Committee Chair, MHTE Division Personnel Affairs Committee. (August 2020May 2021).

Committee Member, Lecture Committee. (January 2016May 2021).

Committee Member, Graduate Academic Degree Committee. (August 2012May 2021).

Committee Chair, Graduate Academic Degree Committee. (August 2018May 2019).

Committee Member, Graduate Council. (August 2018May 2019).

Committee Member, CoM Opera Coach Search Committee. (September 2018April 2019).

Committee Chair, Lecture Committee. (August 2018December 2018).

Committee Member, MHTE Division Personnel Affairs Committee. (August 2018December 2018).

Committee Member, Faculty Advisory Committee. (August 2015December 2018).

Other, Faculty Secretary. (August 2014May 2015).

Committee Member, Elections Committee. (August 2012May 2013).

Professional Service

Task Force Member, France: Musiques, Cultures 1789-1918. (2022 – Present).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of the American Musicological Society. (December 2022).

Session Chair, Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society. (April 9, 2022).

External T&P Letter Writer, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire. (2021).

Session Chair, Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. (November 2021November 2021).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of the Royal Musical Association. (2019).

Session Chair, Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, San Antonio, Texas. (November 2018November 2018).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of the American Musicological Society. (2014).

Session Chair, North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, Fort Worth, Texas. (July 2013July 2013).

Public Service

Guest Speaker, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas, TX. (April 28, 2022May 1, 2022).

Guest Speaker, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas, TX. (April 1, 2022April 5, 2022).

Other, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Denton, Texas. (20122019).

Guest Speaker, Dallas Chamber Music Society, Dallas, Texas. (February 18, 2019).