Faculty Profile

April Prince

Title
Principal Lecturer
Department
Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology
College
College of Music

    

    

      


                          

            
Curriculum Vitae

            

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Education

            



  

  


  
PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2009. 
Major: Music
Degree Specialization: 19th-Century Music, Clara Schumann; 20th-Century American Popular Music
Dissertation Title: Die anmutreichen, unschuldsvollen Herrin: Clara Schumann’s Public        Personas
MM, University of Texas at Austin, 2004. 
Major: Music
Degree Specialization: 19th-Century Music, Clara Schumann
BA, Wesleyan College, 2002. 
Major: Music





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
MUMH 2040.002, Music Appreciation, Summer 2024 
MUMH 2050.001, Sounds and Cinema, Summer 2024 
MUMH 2050.002, Sounds and Cinema, Summer 2024 
MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Spring 2024 Syllabus
MUMH 2040.800, Music Appreciation, Spring 2024 Syllabus
MUMH 3200.001, Music as Politics, Spring 2024 Syllabus
MUMH 3200.700, Music as Politics, Spring 2024 Syllabus
MUMH 2050.001, Sounds and Cinema, Spring 2024 Syllabus


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3200.501, Music as Politics, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2050.001, Sounds and Cinema, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.002, Music Appreciation, Summer 5W2 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2050.001, Sounds and Cinema, Summer 5W2 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2050.002, Sounds and Cinema, Summer 5W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.800, Music Appreciation, Spring 3W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3200.001, Music as Politics, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2050.001, Sounds and Cinema, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3200.700, Music as Politics, Fall 8W2 2022 Syllabus
                    

                    MUMH 3100.001, Music, Gender, Sexuality, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2050.001, Sounds and Cinema, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Summer 5W1 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.002, Music Appreciation, Summer 5W2 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3200.700, Music as Politics, Summer 8W1 2022 Syllabus
                    

                    MUMH 2050.001, Sounds and Cinema, Summer 5W2 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.800, Music Appreciation, Spring 3W1 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3200.001, Music as Politics, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 6020.001, Music History Pedagogy, Spring 2022 Syllabus
                    

                    MUMH 2050.001, Sounds and Cinema, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3200.700, Music as Politics, Fall 8W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3200.750, Music as Politics, Fall 8W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2050.001, Sounds and Cinema, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3010.002, Twentieth Century Music, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Summer 5W1 2021 Syllabus
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Summer 5W2 2021 Syllabus
                    

                    MUMH 2050.001, Sounds and Cinema, Summer 5W2 2021 Syllabus
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.800, Music Appreciation, Spring 3W1 2021 Syllabus
                    

                    MUMH 2040.801, Music Appreciation, Spring 3W1 2021 Syllabus
                    

                    MUMH 3200.001, Music as Politics, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2050.001, Sounds and Cinema, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.002, Music Appreciation, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3100.001, Music, Gender, Sexuality, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2050.001, Sounds and Cinema, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Summer 5W2 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Summer 5W1 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2050.001, Sounds and Cinema, Summer 5W2 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    MUMH 2040.002, Music Appreciation, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    MUMH 2040.800, Music Appreciation, Spring 3W1 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    MUMH 2050.001, Sounds and Cinema, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.004, Music Appreciation, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.005, Music Appreciation, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3010.001, Twentieth Century Music, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Summer 5W2 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Summer 5W1 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.002, Music Appreciation, Summer 5W2 2019 Syllabus
                    

                    MUMH 1610.001, Music as Communication, Summer 5W2 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Spring 3W1 2019 Syllabus
                    

                    MUMH 2040.002, Music Appreciation, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.451, Music Appreciation, Spring 3W1 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3000.001, Nineteenth Century Music, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 1610.005, Music as Communication, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3010.001, Twentieth Century Music, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Summer 5W1 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Summer 5W2 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 1610.001, Music as Communication, Summer 5W2 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 1610.003, Music as Communication, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3000.001, Nineteenth Century Music, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.002, Music Appreciation, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3010.001, Twentieth Century Music, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3010.001, Twentieth Century Music, Summer 5W2 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 1600.003, Music in Human Imagination, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3000.001, Nineteenth Century Music, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 2040.001, Music Appreciation, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 1600.005, Music in Human Imagination, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    MUMH 3010.001, Twentieth Century Music, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT

          


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
  undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
  

        

      

    

  

  
  	

	

	  

		

		   
Published Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
Book Chapter
Prince, A. L. (2023). Listen to the “Poor Girl’s Story”: Southern Femininity in Early Old-Time Music. Hidden Harmonies: Women and Music in Popular Entertainment. University of Mississippi Press. https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/H/Hidden-Harmonies
Book Review
Prince, A. L. (2023). Review of Clara Schumann Studies, edited by Joe Davies. Notes 80, no. 2 (December, 2023): 366-369.. Notes, Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association. 80(2), 3. https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/page/Notes
Prince, A. L. (2022). Review of Becoming Clara Schumann: Performance Strategies and Aesthetics in the Culture of the Musical Canon by  Alexander Stefaniak. Notes, Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association. 79(2), 3. https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/page/Notes
Journal Article
Prince, A. L. (2023). The Technological Priestess: The Piano Recital, Photography, and Clara Schumann. Nineteenth-Century Music Review. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nineteenth-century-music-review/article/technological-priestess-the-piano-recital-photography-and-clara-schumann/F3D63FDB7838261AA8D4089FBEED7656#article
Prince, A. L. (2017). (Re)Considering the Priestess: Clara Schumann, Historiography, and the Visual. Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture. 21, .  Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska. 



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   
Awarded Grants



  
  
  	  
          
Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research  

 	 
	 	 
  
Contract   
Prince, A. L. (Principal), "Online Core Sprint Initiative," Sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, $6000 Funded. (May 2017 – August 2017).
Grant - Research   
Prince, A. L., "Gladys Krieble Delmas Visiting Scholar Program," Sponsored by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, International, $750 Funded. (June 2015 – 2015).
Grant - Teaching   
Prince, A. L., "UNT Clear Course Design Institute," Sponsored by UNT CLEAR, University of North Texas, $1250 Funded. (May 2017 – August 2017).



	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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