Dexter Edge

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Dexter Edge (born in Tacoma, Washington, 20 January 1953) is an American musicologist.

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Academic career

Dexter Edge attended The Evergreen State College (BA, Interdisciplinary Arts). He studied music history at the University of Southern California (1983-2001, Ph.D., 2001). He has taught music history at the Louisiana State University 1997-1999. 2002-2005 he was Senior Editor at the Packard Humanities Institute (The Complete Works of Carl Philip Emanuel Bach ). He was a 2006 Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, [1] and the "William J. Bouwsma" Fellow at the National Humanities Center (2006-2007). [2] The recipient of an "Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship," [3] Edge has published numerous scholarly articles on Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He is an authority on Mozart’s autograph manuscripts and an accomplished pianist. His scholarly work has appeared in such publications as The Cambridge Opera Journal, Revue de Musicologie, Mozart Jahrbuch, Eighteenth-Century Music, and the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. He has also presented papers at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, the International Musicological Society, and the Mozart Society of America. Edge was also the executive editor of MUSA (Music of the United States of America).

Since 2014, he has collaborated with David Black on an online edition in progress of newly discovered Mozart documents. [4]

Ph.D. thesis

Editions

Research articles

Many are available through Edge's profile on academia.edu.

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References

  1. "Dexter Edge F'06". www.acls.org. Archived from the original on 2010-03-04.
  2. "National Humanities Center Names Fellows for 2006-07, News Release (04/12/06)". Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2013-01-25.
  3. "AMS—AHJ AMS 50 Winners". www.ams-net.org. Archived from the original on 2011-11-18.
  4. Dexter Edge and David Black Mozart: New Documents