Director of Graduate Studies

PhD Princeton University

222 Baird Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo NY, 14260

tel: (716) 645-2765, x.1268
fax: (716) 645-3824
email: mlong@buffalo.edu

Michael Long has been a member of the faculties of the University at Buffalo, Columbia University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition, he has taught graduate seminars as a visitor at Harvard and Cornell Universities.

His work on fourteenth-century music has appeared in The Journal of the American Musicological Society, Early Music History, L’ars nova italiana del Trecento, and Music and Society. His articles on fifteenth-century music have appeared in The Journal of the American Musicological Society, and Antoine Busnoys: Method, Meaning, and Context in Late Medieval Music. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Film Music. Long has received the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society, and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Recent papers include

"Slow-dancing on Brokeback Mountain" (Royal Music Association, Nottingham, July, 2006)
“The Clink of Coin: Musical Structure and Hard Currency in Medieval Europe,” International Musicological Society Congress, Leuven, Belgium, August, 2002)
“Giving Josquin the Edge,” UCLA (May, 2001)
“Music, Matrimony, and Ile fantazies de Joskin,” International Josquin Conference, Princeton University (October, 1999)
“Is this the real life?”: Rock Classics and Other Inversions,” UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, and Stanford University (April, 1998)

His book,Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media, is scheduled for publication in 2008 by University of California Press.

Undergraduate courses regularly taught

Graduate courses regularly taught