Richard L. Crocker

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Richard L. Crocker
Professor Emeritus

104 Morrison Hall
642-2678

History of European musical style

medieval music

Gregorian and Frankish chant

polyphony (organum, discant, counterpoint)

medieval theory of music

performance of chant and medieval polyphony

music in antiquity

Publications (with McGraw-Hill, University of California Press, Oxford University Press, Yale University Press, Ashgate):

A History of Musical Style

Listening to Music, with Ann Basart

The Early Medieval Sequence

Introduction to Gregorian Chant

The Early Middle Ages (New Oxford History of Music II, with David Hiley et al.)

edited The Aquitanian Kyrie Repertory of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries, by David A. Bjork

Articles: "The Troping Hypothesis," "Rhythm and Meter," "Matins Antiphons at St. Denis," "Hermann's Major Sixth," "Discant, Counterpoint, and Harmony."

Performances on compact discs:

Sounds from Silence with Anne Draffkorn Kilmer ("the "oldest song in the world")

Richard Felciano, "Responsory" (1992) for solo male voice and live electronics

As his retirement project, Crocker is recording the early repertory of Gregorian chant — 500-plus chants (Introits, Graduals, Alleluias, Tracts, Offertories, Communion antiphons) sung by himself and recorded on a series of CDs as a study edition entitled A Gregorian Archive. The performances are based on a new reading of the earliest notation.