This collection of twenty-eight essays pays tribute to the memory of J. Bunker Clark (1931-2003), noted author, teacher, and performer.  A specialist in American music,  history of keyboard music, and the Baroque organ, Professor Clark for thirty-eight years--virtually his entire career--was professor of musicology, and later emeritus professor, at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.  During the last twenty-one years of his life he was also the book series editor at Harmonie Park Press.  The contributors are friends, former students, and colleagues.

The volume is divided into seven subject areas that represent vital interests of the honoree: American Music, Keyboard Music, Early Music, Mozart and Beethoven, Music Education, Opera and Musical Theater, and Aesthetics and Historiography.  A portrait of Bunker Clark as scholar, mentor, and editor, by William E. Everett, and personal reminiscences by Bruno Nettl, F. E. Kirby, and Marilyn Clark precede the essays.

About the Editors

Wiliam A. Everett is associate professor of musicology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance

Paul R. Laird is professor of musicology and director of the musicology division at the University of Kansas

The Contributors

Stephen Banfield, Raoul F. Camus, Walter Aaron Clark, Robert M. Copeland, Mary Jane Corry, Jeremy Dibble, William A. Everett, George C. Foreman, Martha D. Gerstenkorn, John Graziano, Sharon L. Hettinger, Colin Holman, Roland Jackson, Harlan Jennings, William Kearns, F. E. Kirby, John Koegel, Edward L. Kottick, Paul R. Laird, Alexandra Mascolo-David, Sterling E. Murray, Kay Norton, Lynda Payne, Daniel T. Politoske, Stanislav Tuksar, Maria Helena Vieira, Glenn Watkins, and Mary A. Wischusen

DMM/SM 50 / 361p / 0-89990-138-7 / Hardcover / 2007 / $40.00