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April L. Prince

Title: Principal Lecturer

Department: Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology

College: College of Music

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

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

Current Scheduled Teaching

MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationFall 2024 Syllabus
MUMH 3100.001Music, Gender, SexualityFall 2024 Syllabus
MUMH 2050.401Sounds and CinemaFall 2024
MUMH 2040.002Music AppreciationSummer 5W2 2024 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2050.001Sounds and CinemaSummer 5W2 2024 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2050.002Sounds and CinemaSummer 5W1 2024 Syllabus SPOT
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.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.800Music AppreciationSpring 3W1 2024 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3200.001Music as PoliticsSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3200.700Music as PoliticsSpring 8W2 2024 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2050.001Sounds and CinemaSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3200.501Music as PoliticsFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2050.001Sounds and CinemaFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.002Music AppreciationSummer 5W2 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2050.001Sounds and CinemaSummer 5W2 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2050.002Sounds and CinemaSummer 5W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.800Music AppreciationSpring 3W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3200.001Music as PoliticsSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2050.001Sounds and CinemaSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3200.700Music as PoliticsFall 8W2 2022 Syllabus
MUMH 3100.001Music, Gender, SexualityFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2050.001Sounds and CinemaFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSummer 5W1 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.002Music AppreciationSummer 5W2 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3200.700Music as PoliticsSummer 8W1 2022 Syllabus
MUMH 2050.001Sounds and CinemaSummer 5W2 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.800Music AppreciationSpring 3W1 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3200.001Music as PoliticsSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 6020.001Music History PedagogySpring 2022
MUMH 2050.001Sounds and CinemaSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3200.700Music as PoliticsFall 8W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3200.750Music as PoliticsFall 8W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2050.001Sounds and CinemaFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3010.002Twentieth Century MusicFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSummer 5W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSummer 5W2 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2050.001Sounds and CinemaSummer 5W2 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.800Music AppreciationSpring 3W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.801Music AppreciationSpring 3W1 2021 Syllabus
MUMH 3200.001Music as PoliticsSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2050.001Sounds and CinemaSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.002Music AppreciationFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3100.001Music, Gender, SexualityFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2050.001Sounds and CinemaFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSummer 5W2 2020 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSummer 5W1 2020 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2050.001Sounds and CinemaSummer 5W2 2020 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSpring 2020 Syllabus
MUMH 2040.002Music AppreciationSpring 2020 Syllabus
MUMH 2040.800Music AppreciationSpring 3W1 2020 Syllabus
MUMH 2050.001Sounds and CinemaSpring 2020 Syllabus
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.004Music AppreciationFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.005Music AppreciationFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3010.001Twentieth Century MusicFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSummer 5W2 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSummer 5W1 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.002Music AppreciationSummer 5W2 2019 Syllabus
MUMH 1610.001Music as CommunicationSummer 5W2 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSpring 3W1 2019 Syllabus
MUMH 2040.002Music AppreciationSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.451Music AppreciationSpring 3W1 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3000.001Nineteenth Century MusicSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 1610.005Music as CommunicationFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3010.001Twentieth Century MusicFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSummer 5W1 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSummer 5W2 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 1610.001Music as CommunicationSummer 5W2 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 1610.003Music as CommunicationSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3000.001Nineteenth Century MusicSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.002Music AppreciationFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3010.001Twentieth Century MusicFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3010.001Twentieth Century MusicSummer 5W2 2017 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 1600.003Music in Human ImaginationSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3000.001Nineteenth Century MusicSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 2040.001Music AppreciationFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 1600.005Music in Human ImaginationFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 3010.001Twentieth Century MusicFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
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 Intellectual Contributions

    Book Chapter

  • Prince, A.L. Clara and Robert Schumann in Context; Chapter 33, "Iconography".
  • 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
  • Prince, A.L. Asking Non-Majors to Music in Reclamation and Remix Projects: Challenging Topics, Collaborative Learning, and Creative Assignments. Teaching and Learning Difficult Topics in the Music History Classroom.

    • 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.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Contract

  • Prince, A.L. (Principal), "Online Core Sprint Initiative," sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, $6000 Funded. (2017 - 2017).

    • Grant - Research

  • Prince, A.L., "Gladys Krieble Delmas Visiting Scholar Program," sponsored by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, International, $750 Funded. (2015 - 2015).
  • Prince, A.L., "Gladys Krieble Delmas Visiting Scholar Program," sponsored by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, International, Funded. (2015 - 2015).

    • Grant - Teaching

  • Prince, A.L., "UNT Clear Course Design Institute," sponsored by UNT CLEAR, University of North Texas, $1250 Funded. (2017 - 2017).
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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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