Professor (Musicology) Office: 205 Music & Media Phone: 949-824–4916 E-mail: mkmurata@uci.edu Ph.D., University of Chicago President of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (2000-03); Music Subject Test Committee of the Graduate Record Examination (1995-2000); Vice-President of the American Musicological Society (1994-96) and Board of Directors (1988-89).

Research

Italian Baroque opera and cantata and the revival of arie antiche in modern times. Performance practices, particularly voice and continuo instruments. Editor of Strunk’s Source Readings in Music History: The Baroque Era (rev. ed., 1998).

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Teaching

History of western music through all periods; criticism, performance practice; analysis.

Performance

• Choral (Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, 1965-71
• UCI University Chorus, director, 1974-75
• UCI Collegium Musicum, director, 1975-83)
• organ, harpsichord (continuo)