Richard Crocker
Professor Emeritus, Musicology
Research interests: 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
Email: rgcrocker@comcast.net
Office phone: 642-2678
Compositions/Performances/Publications
Publications (with McGraw-Hill, University of California Press, Oxford University Press, Yale University Press, Ashgate):
A History of Musical StyleListening to Music, with Ann BasartThe Early Medieval SequenceIntroduction to Gregorian ChantThe 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.