Musicology Faculty - The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Department Leadership

Professor and Chair of Musicology
Joy H. Calico
Joy H. Calico is professor of musicology and chair of the Department of Musicology. Her scholarship focuses on interdisciplinary Cold War cultural politics, opera since 1900, and Arnold Schoenberg. Her current projects include a theory of twentieth- and twenty-first-century opera...
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Professor of Musicology, Founder and Director of UCLA PEER Lab, Director of Graduate Studies in Musicology
Nina Eidsheim
Nina Eidsheim (she/her) is the author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music; co-editing Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies; Co-editor of the Refiguring American Music book series for Duke University Press. She received her...
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Associate Professor - Musicology, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Cesar Favila
Cesar Favila’s work resides at the intersections of music history, art, and religion, often examining how the sacred and the profane animate beliefs about salvation. His transhistorical and interdisciplinary interests weave transcription and translation of archival sources with arguments from...
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Faculty & Students in the News

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Catherine Provenzano Talks Autotune and Modern Music
From the NY Times: Autotune is ubiquitous, and Catherine Provenzano, musicologist and music industry professor, helps explain it.
Dean Beckerman's New Book Asks Whether Meaning in Art Can Ever Be Shared
OUT NOW: Dean Michael Beckerman’s new book, “The Doctrine of One: Personal Encounters with Film, Art and Music,” explores one of the most intriguing questions in the humanities: Can meaning
In Memoriam Mitchell Morris
By Robert Fink UCLA Professor Emeritus Mitchell Morris (64), of Cathedral City, California, passed away peacefully on August 17, 2026 after a long illness. Following appointments at McGill and the