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John J. Joyce, M.Mus., M.A., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Music (musicology)
Member of the Graduate Faculty

jjoyce@tulane.edu

Music Department
105 Dixon Hall
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118-5683
Voice: (504) 862-3215
Fax: (504) 865-5270


Education:
Master Classes The Juilliard School, percussion, 1963-64
M.Mus. North Texas State University, percussion and jazz arranging, 1964
M.A. Tulane University, historical musicology, 1966
Ph.D. Tulane University, historical musicology, 1975


Scholarly Publications and Presentations:
Monographic Works and Edited Publications:
1.  The Monodies of Sigismondo D’India, Studies in Musicology XLVII (Ann Arbor, Michigan:  UMI Research Press, an imprint of University Microfilms International, 1981)

2.  edited, Sigismondo D’India, Le musiche a una e due voci libri I, II, III, IV e V (1609-1623), 2 vols., Istituto di Storia della Musica dell’Università di Palermo, Musiche Rinascimentali Siciliane IX, Paolo Emilio Carapezza, General Editor (Florence:  Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1989)

3.  transcribed and edited, Brush Stomp, As recorded by The New Orleans Footwarmers in 1924, Music for Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Masterworks Editions, Gunther A. Schuller, General Editor (Washington, D.C.:  Smithsonian Institution, forthcoming)

4.  transcribed and edited, Love Dreams, As recorded by The Halfway House Orchestra in 1929, Music for Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Masterworks Editions, Gunther A. Schuller, General Editor (Washington, D.C.:  Smithsonian Institution, forthcoming)

5.  edited, The Jazz Archivist:  A Newsletter of The William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive [ISSN 1085-8415], volumes I- (1985- )


Scholarly Articles and Reviews:
1.  American Music

2.  Black Music Research Journal (Chicago:  Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, and Nashville, Tennessee:  Institute for Research in Black American Music, Fisk University)

3.  Conceptualizing Global History, ed. Ralph Buultjens and Bruce Mazlish (Boulder, Colorado, Oxford, and San Francisco:  Westview Press, 1993)

4.  Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, ed. William Ferris and Charles Reagan Wilson (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and London:  The University of North Carolina Press, 1989)

5.  The Jazz Archivist:  A Newsletter of The William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive [ISSN 1085-8415]

6.  Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart:  Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik begründet von Friedrich Blume, ed. Ludwig Finscher, Personenteil, 12 vols. (Kassel:  Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1999- [second edition])

7.  The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, ed. H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie, 4 vols. (London:  Macmillan Press Limited, 1986)

8.  The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie, 29 vols. (London:  Macmillan Press Limited, 2001 [second edition])

9.  The New Orleans Review

10.  Sigismondo D’India:  Atti del convegno di studi su Sigismondo D’India tra rinascimento e barocco, Erice, 3-4 agosto 1990, ed. Maria Antonella Balsano and Giuseppe Collisani, Istituto di Storia della Musica dell’Università di Palermo, In collaborazione con la Scuola di Musica Rinascimentale di Palermo, Puncta:  Studi Musicologici XI (Palermo:  S.F. Flaccovio s.a.s., 1993)


Performance Activities and Accomplishments:
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra and The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Percussionist, 1962-64 and 1967-70

The Pete Fountain Sextet and Al Hirt and His “Swinging Dixie” Septet
Percussionist, 1968-73

The Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble
http://louisianajazz.com/

Co-Founder, Musical Director, and Percussionist
ensemble devoted to the historically-accurate performance of early New Orleans jazz, based upon transcriptions from period recordings:  recipient of the Smithsonian Institution’s Doubleday Prize; performances at the Grammy Awards, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Smithsonian Institution, and Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Universities, among many other domestic venues; international concerts sponsored by the Cultural Exchange Program of the United States Department of State in St. Petersburg (at the United States Consulate), Moscow (at the United States Ambassador’s Residence), Prague (at the United States Ambassador’s Residence), and Warsaw (at the United States Ambassador’s Residence), among many other venues; favorable reviews and coverage in the New York Times, People Weekly, High Fidelity magazine, and elsewhere; four-star rating (the highest possible) in The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD


Recordings of Historic New Orleans Jazz by The Repertory Ensemble:
1.  Uptown Jazz, The Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble of New Orleans, Stomp Off CD1055 (York, Pennsylvania:  Stomp Off Records, 1992)

2.  Hot and Sweet:  Sounds of Lost New Orleans, Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble of New Orleans, S.O.S. 1140CD (York, Pennsylvania:  Stomp Off Records)

[previous two titles favorably reviewed in Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (Auckland, Harmondsworth, Johannesburg, London, New Delhi, New York, Toronto, and Victoria:  Penguin Books, Published by the Penguin Group, 2000 [5th ed.])]

3.  Marching, Ragging, and Mourning:  Brass Band Music of New Orleans, 1900-1920, Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble of New Orleans, Stomp Off CD 1197 (York, Pennsylvania:  Stomp Off Records, 1994)

4.  Moods of Old New Orleans:  Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble, Recorded Live at Fairfield University June 1995, Volume 1, Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University, Naxos Jazz 9506 (Product of HNH International, 1995)

5.  The Golden Age of New Orleans:  Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble, Recorded Live at Fairfield University, Volume 2, Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University, Naxos Jazz 9507 (Cherry Hill, New Jersey:  Product of HNH International, Distributed by Naxos of America, Inc., 1996)


Additional Professional Activities:
adviser to and interviewee in productions for WYES-TV, the Public Broadcasting System, New Orleans:  the one-hour documentary “Red Beans and Ricely Yours”:  Satchmo in New Orleans, 1990, subsequently broadcast nationally; the one-hour documentary “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” on Armand J. Piron and the tradition of genteel, Creole society jazz, 1990, subsequently broadcast nationally; and many others


Awards and Research Fellowships:
Fulbright-Hays Scholarship, Italy, 1973-75, for doctoral research




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