J. Marshall Bevil, Ph.D.
Post-Secondary
Music Education and Musicology
7918
Millbrook Drive Houston, Texas 77095
Telephone (281) 859-5965 Cellular (713)
419-6829 Fax (281) 550-8667
TEACHING AREAS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
GENERAL MUSIC / MUSICIANSHIP, EAR TRAINING, THEORY, APPRECIATION - Three degrees in music, with total of nearly thirty years of private and class teaching experience at the collegiate, secondary, and elementary levels. Expertise in the pre- and non-literate, as well as the standard literate, musical processes and traditions.
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY / AMERICAN MUSIC - 1) folk and popular music of the United States and the British Isles (thesis and dissertation abstracts available online; see also online list of publications and presentations); 2) music in its social contexts - see both dissertation abstract and full online text of paper on music associated with the Titanic disaster.
HISTORICAL MUSICOLOGY - College-level teaching experience in general undergraduate music history / literature. British composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially Vaughan Williams and Delius (see list of publications and presentations).
SYSTEMATIC MUSICOLOGY - 1) Computer applications, especially the design and use of software for
comparative melodic analysis both in academic research
and in forensic
musicological investigations; 2) Music and language, especially
relationships between oral-aural musical and verbal traditions, and linguistic
approaches to the study of music (doctoral minor in English, including training
in linguistics; see also dissertation abstract
and forensic musicology
pages 1 and 2).
TEACHER-TRAINING - Twenty-four years of experience
in pubic school music education, interdisciplinary curriculum writing, and
inservice presentations.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Ph.D., Musicology, University of North
Texas, 1984; dissertation:
"Centonization and Concordance in the
American Southern Uplands
Folksong Melody." Minor in English, with concentration in
linguistics and the history of
the language.
Texas Education
Agency Certification in Music (All-Level), University of Houston,
1983.
M.Mus., Musicology, University of North
Texas, 1973; thesis:
"The Welsh Crwth, Its History, and Its
Genealogy." Minor in
music theory, with concentration in analysis.
B.Mus., cum laude,
Vocal Performance / Sacred Music,
Oklahoma Baptist University,
1970. Minor in piano.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
music specialist, Houston
Independent School District, 1980 - present (teaching, curriculum
writing,
inservice presentations - see elementary / secondary
resume).
string teacher in private lesson program,
Spring Branch Independent School
District, 1979-1980,
1982-1983 (see elementary / secondary
resume).
independent writer / lecturer,
performer, composer / arranger, investigative
assistant, and
forensic musicologist, 1976 - present
lecturer and performer, Young Audiences of Houston, 1979-1980
summer music history faculty, College of Music, University of North Texas, 1976
research assistant in musicology, University of Texas at Dallas, 1974-1976
doctoral teaching fellow, music history
and literature, College of Music,
University of North Texas,
1974-1976
support staff, music and general academics, Houston Independent School District, 1977-1980
student assistant / tutor, Department of Music Theory, Warren M. Angell College
of Fine Arts,
Oklahoma
Baptist University, 1967-1970
DIRECTORY LISTINGS
2004 National Intellectual Property Directory (New York: American Lawyer Media, 2004).
2005 Directory of Expert Witnesses and Consultants / Southeastern (New York: American Lawyer Media, 2005).
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, CA:
Center for Computer Assisted Research
in the Humanities, 1985-1991).
Five Thousand Personalities of the World, third edition (Raleigh, NC: American Biographical Institute, 1991).
The International Directory of
Distinguished Leadership, third
edition (Raleigh, NC: American Biographical Institute,
1991).
The International Register of Profiles, tenth edition (Cambridge: 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, NC: American Biographical
Institute, 1997).
Men of Achievement, fifteenth edition (Cambridge: International Biographical Centre, 1992).
Personalities of America, sixth edition (Raleigh, NC: American Biographical Institute, 1992).
Texas Hall of Fame, first edition (Englewood, NJ: Publishers Plus,
1996).
Texas Music Industry Directory, 2004 Edition (Austin: Texas Music
Office, 2004).
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, IL: Marquis Who's Who, 1990).
Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, fourth edition (Wilmette, IL: Marquis Who's Who, 1992).
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