School of Music
Murray Steib
Murray Steib

Associate Professor of Music History

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School of Music
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306

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Biography
Murray Steib (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1992). Assistant Professor, specializes in the music of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, especially sacred music, and musical borrowing in the Renaissance. He has also taught at Indiana University in Bloomington and Roosevelt University in Chicago. He received an NEH Summer Fellowship in 1998, and a Ball State New Faculty Development Grant and a Ball State International Faculty Development Grant in 2001. He has published articles and reviews in the Journal of Musicology, Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, Music Library Association NOTES, and the Journal of Musicological Research, and has contributed to the revised New Grove Dictionary and The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. He edited The Reader Guide to Music: History, Theory, Criticism, a reference guide to the monographic literature on music, and co-edited the two-volume critical edition of Johannes Martini Masses. Dr. Steib has read papers at national and international music history conferences in the United States and Europe, including the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, the International Medieval and Renaissance Conference in Great Britain, the International Musicological Society, and the local and national meetings of the American Musicological Society. Current projects include a book which explores the techniques of Mass composition in the fifteenth century, with particular emphasis on how borrowed material was used both as a structural device and as a means of alluding to other works; an edition of Martini motets; and an article in which he discusses the social, political, and religious milieu that produced a late fifteenth-century Ferrarese manuscript and argues that Johannes Martini, its best-represented composer, acted as its editor.