Dr. ANN SILVERBERG
music history, ethnomusicology

Ann L. Silverberg, Assistant Professor, is a 1992 graduate of the Ph.D. program in musicology at the University of Illinois School of Music in Urbana-Champaign. She also holds a Master's degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois and the Master of Music degree in Musicology from Indiana University at Bloomington. Her Bachelor's degree was earned at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, were she majored in Music Education. She teaches music history, ethnomusicology, music appreciation, and interdisciplinary humanities courses at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Her doctoral dissertation, titled "The Cecilian Movement in Baltimore, 1868-1903" studies ethnic differences among Baltimore's communities in their reaction to the 19th-century German movement to restore and emulate Gregorian chant and Renaissance polyphony. Her present research interests include the construction of hypermedia instructional systems in music, Roman Catholic liturgical music, the music of China and American music.

E-mail: SilverbergA@apsu.edu
Phone: (931) 221-7644