David Dodge Boyden

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David Dodge Boyden (born December 10, 1910 in Westport , Connecticut , † September 18, 1986 in Berkeley , California ) was an American musicologist and instrument scientist .

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David D. Boyden studied at Harvard University , where he submitted his master's thesis in 1938 with "magna cum laude". He then continued his studies at Columbia University and the " Hartt School of Music " in Hartford , which honored him in 1957 with an honorary doctorate.

From 1933 to 1935 he studied piano and in the 1940s viola . From 1939 to 1975 Boyden taught and researched at the University of California , where he became a full professor in 1955 and was Dean of the Faculty of Music from 1955 to 1961. As such, he was instrumental in setting up the musicology department, but also in promoting the departments for ethnomusicology , composition and instrumental performance practice.

In addition to numerous visiting professorships and lectures, he was vice president of the American Musicological Society from 1954 to 1956 and 1960 to 1962. A scholarship from the Fulbright Program (1963) allowed him to continue his research on the stringed instruments in the Hill collection in the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford . Boyden received the Guggenheim Fellowship three times (1954, 1967, and 1970) to advance his research on instruments. In 1983 the American Musical Instrument Society presented him with the Curt Sachs Award.

His most important publication, “The History of Violin Playing from its Origins to 1761” on the history of the violin and performance practice, appeared in 1965. A German translation “The History of Violin Playing from its Beginnings to 1761” was published in 1971 and a Polish translation followed in 1980 In addition to other book publications and articles in specialist journals, he has written numerous articles for the Groves and MGG music encyclopedias.

Publications

  • "A Manual of Counterpoint" (New York, 1944)
  • "The History and Literature of Music, 1750 to Present" (Berkeley, 1945)
  • "An Introduction on Music" (New York, 1956)
  • "The History of Violin Playing from its Origins to 1761" (1965, 1967, 1985, 1995)
  • “The history of violin playing from its beginnings to 1761” (Schott, Mainz, 1971) ISBN 3-795-72100-8
  • "Catalog of the Hill Collection of Musical Instruments in the Ashmolean Museum" (Oxford, 1969, 1970)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by University of California staff
personal data
SURNAME Boyden, David Dodge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boyden, David D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Westport , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1986
Place of death Berkeley , California