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Maximillian M Schmeder
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    • Lecturer
  • Division Humanities Division
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    • Rachel Carson College
    • Music Department
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    • Rachel Carson College Academic Building, 000
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Summary of Expertise

  • PhD in Musicology (Columbia University)
  • MA in History of Science (UC Berkeley)
  • MA in Harpsichord Performance Practice (UC Santa Cruz)
  • BA in Math, Music, & History (UC Santa Cruz)

 

Classes Taught:

Music 101B, History of Western Art Music: Baroque, Classical, Romantic (UCSC)

Rachel Carson College Core Course: "Environment and Society" (UCSC)

Music Humanities/"Masterpieces of Western Music" (Columbia University)

 

Research Interests

I am currently writing a book charting how the newly minted concept of musical "harmony" was leveraged in public debates on colonization, religion, and gender in Britain circa 1800 (provisionally titled Empire of Harmony: Modulation, Science, and Power in Georgian England).

I also teach an environmentally themed class at Rachel Carson College.  I'm particularly interested in the political and legal mechanisms that underpin environmentalist progress and obstructionism in California.