J. Marshall Bevil,
Ph.D.
~ Forensic Musicologist ~
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Consultant and Expert Witness in Civil and Criminal
Cases of
Copyright Infringement and Intellectual Property
Misappropriation
~ Specialist in the Oral-Aural Perception, Assimilation,
and Recall of Music ~
7918 Millbrook
Drive
Houston,
Telephone (
Services
Provided
consultation and expert testimony in copyright infringement and intellectual
property misappropriation disputes:
determining
and precisely defining melodic and other musical similarities and differences
between and among select items;
computer-assisted
analysis employed when appropriate
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Professional
Credentials
Musicology /
Ethnomusicology
Ph.D. dissertation and
post-doctoral publications and presentations ( links 1 2 ) on oral-aural melodic generation,
transmission, perception, assimilation, preservation, and change; adaptation
and application of linguistic and cognitive psychological principles to
analysis of oral-aural musical processes; computer-assisted musical analysis;
teaching principles of oral-aural musical processes as part of instruction in
music history and music literature at the university level.
Music Education
Interdisciplinary
instruction, curriculum design, and teacher training (since 1980) emphasizing
the separate, combined, and interacting linguistic and mathematical properties
of music, music in its social and historical contexts, the literate and
non-literate musical learning processes, and the processes in combination; use
of pattern recognition and reduction techniques as teaching and learning tools.
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University Degrees
Doctor of Philosophy, University of North Texas, 1984.
Major in musicology, minor in English with concentration in linguistics and the
history of the language.
Dissertation: "Centonization and Concordance in the American Southern
Uplands Folksong Melody: a Study of the Musical Generative and Transmittive Processes of an Oral Tradition," 449
pp. Published by University Microfilms,
International ( document number
8423854 - Click on "Dissertation Services"). Concerning post-doctoral
studies, see online bibliography of
publications and presentations.
Master of Music, University of North Texas, 1973.
Major in musicology, minor in music theory with concentration in stylistic and
structural analysis.
Thesis: "The
Welsh Crwth, Its History, and Its Genealogy,"
248 pp. with companion audio tape. Thesis research included manuscript study,
iconographic investigation, and examination of instruments in
Bachelor of Music, with honors, Oklahoma Baptist University, 1970.
Major in sacred music, with choral / vocal performance concentration, minor in
piano.
Teaching
Certification
Texas Education Agency Certification in Music Education,
All-Level,
Areas of Expertise
MOST RELEVANT TO FORENSIC MUSICOLOGY:
Oral-Aural Musical Perception, Assimilation, Memory, Recall, and
Refashioning (i.e., the centonate process).
See online dissertation abstract, abstract and full text of forensic
musicological investigation concerning the Titanic disaster, and bibliography of
publications and presentations.
Computer-Assisted Comparative Analysis of Melodies from
within Western Oral-Aural and Popular Traditions.
See dissertation abstract
and
online summary of MelAnaly; also bibliography of publications
and presentations.
Teaching of Musical Aural and Mnemonic Skills (since 1980), based on
recognized principles of aural musical perception and non- or pre-literate
musical learning and recall -- see online dissertation abstract, bibliography of
publications and presentations, and Elementary and Secondary
Education Resume; see also under "Employment History," 1967-1970
and 1977 - present, below.
OTHER AREAS:
Consultation in interdisciplinary, multi-sensory music pedagogy, including curriculum planning and writing
Traditional Music of Celtic Britain and the Anglo-Celtic Diaspora
in North America
See online thesis
abstract and dissertation abstract; also bibliography of
publications and presentations.
History of Western Art Music and Historical Popular Music
See under "Employment History," 1974-1976, below; also under
"University Degrees," above, and online Higher Education Resume.
See also online essays on Delius and Ketelbey
and
the bibliography
of
publications and presentations concerning work with the Vaughan Williams
Folksong Manuscripts.
Live and Recorded Performance on the crwth (a
sixteenth- through early eighteenth-century string instrument of the Welsh folk
culture), for both educational and entertainment purposes See
online thesis
abstract, also abstract
of "Some Observations Regarding Crwth
Performance" and online advertisement of crwth performance.
History of Bowed Western String Instruments
See online thesis
abstract, also abstract of
"Some Observations Regarding Crwth
Performance" and online advertisement of crwth performance; additionally, see
"Employment History," 1974 - present, below
Orchestral String Instrument Pedagogy: balanced
approach focusing on music reading, with additional emphasis on ear-training,
musical memory development, and tactile-kinesthetic skills. See online Elementary and Secondary
Education Resume
Designing of Interdisciplinary Music Curricula
(integration of music with language, mathematics, science, and general cultural
history). See Elementary and Secondary
Education Resume; also Higher
Education Resume.
Employment History
1967-1970
Tutor in Ear-Training,
1974-1976
Doctoral Teaching Fellow in
Music History and Music Literature,
1974-1977
Research Assistant to the President,
Summer,
1976 Adjunct Music History
Faculty,
1976
– present Independent Scholar
(research, presentation, publication), Composer, and Arranger. See online bibliography.
1977-1979
Performer on the crwth, with Young Audiences of Houston;
independent performance both before and after those dates
1977-1980
Associate Educator,
1980
– present Music Educator, Houston
I.S.D. (Curriculum Writer since 1995). See Elementary and Secondary
Education Resume.
1996-
present Consultant in
Forensic Musicology
Publications and
Presentations
Online Bibliography
List of Musical
Compositions
Items of Special
Relevance to Forensic Musicology:
“A Structured Method for the Teaching
and Learning of Difficult Pieces and Passages”
Abstract
"And
the Band Played On: Hypotheses Concerning What Music Was Performed Near the
Climax of the Titanic Disaster" Abstract
Full Text
Professional
Affiliations
American Musicological Society
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
Pi Kappa Lambda Honor Fraternity
Directory Listings
Community
Leaders of America, fourteenth edition (Raleigh, NC: American Biographical
Institute, 1991).
Computing in Musicology: A Directory of Research (Menlo
Park, CA: Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, 1990).
Dictionary
of International Biography, twenty-third edition
(Cambridge: International Biographical Centre, 1994).
Directory
of Computer Assisted Research in Musicology (Menlo Park, California:
Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities,
1985-1991).
Five
Thousand Personalities of the World, third edition (Raleigh, North
Carolina: American Biographical Institute, 1991).
The
International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, third
edition (Raleigh: American Biographical Institute, 1991).
The
International Register of Profiles, tenth edition (Cambridge, England:
International Biographical Centre, 1990).
The
International Who's Who in Music, twelfth edition (Cambridge:
International Biographical Centre, 1990).
The
International Who's Who of Contemporary Achievement, fourth
edition (Raleigh: American Biographical Institute, 1997).
Men
of Achievement, fifteenth edition (Cambridge: International Biographical
Centre, 1992).
Personalities
of America, sixth edition (Raleigh: American Biographical Institute,
1992)
Strathmore
Who’s Who (2003).
Two Thousand Notable American Men, Second
Illustrated Edition (Raleigh: American Biographical Society, 1994).
Who's
Who in the South and Southwest,
twenty-second edition (Wilmette, Illinois: Marquis Who's Who, 1990).
Who's
Who of Emerging Leaders in
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