Director of Graduate Studies
Musicology Coordinator
Ziegele Chair in Music

Ph.D. Princeton University

406 Baird Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo NY, 14260

tel: (716) 645-0638
fax: (716) 645-3824
email: mlong@buffalo.edu

Michael Long received the B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from Amherst College and the M.F.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. He has received the Alfred Einstein award from the American Musicological Society and the SUNY Chancellor’s award for excellence in teaching. His essays on late medieval music have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society; Early Music History; L’ars nova italiana del Trecento; Music and Society; Antoine Busnoys: Method, Meaning and Context in Late Medieval Music; Trading Values: Money, Morality, and Culture in Early Modern Europe (forthcoming). His book, Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media, was published in 2008 by the University of California Press. It received the 2009 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society for the best book in musicology by a senior scholar. A text interview about the book is available at Rorotoko.

Recent conference presentations

• "We Are Romans: Dancing to (and with) Respighi in Kenneth Anger's Fireworks" (American Musicological Society, Nashville, November, 2008)
• "Slow-dancing on Brokeback Mountain" (Royal Music Association, Nottingham, July, 2006)

Recent graduate seminars

• Twentieth-Century Music and Avant-Garde Cinema
• Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century
• Mapping the Cinema Soundtrack
• Medieval Music and the Memory Arts
• Number and Proportion in Medieval Polyphony