Andrew H. Weaver (Ph.D., M.Phil., Yale University; B.M., Rice University), assistant professor of musicology.  Teaches music history and research methodology and advises students in musicology.  Specializes in music of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly in Austria, Germany, and Italy, and has also published on music of the Renaissance.  Specific research interests include sacred music, patronage studies, music and politics, musical borrowing, music and rhetoric, seventeenth-century Italian opera, the Romantic Lied and song cycle (especially Schumann), and the German orchestral tradition (especially Mendelssohn and Richard Strauss).  Publications include articles in the Journal of Musicology, Music & Letters, and Nineteenth-Century Music Review; a chapter in Early Musical Borrowing, ed. Honey Meconi (New York: Routledge, 2004); and reviews in Renaissance Quarterly, Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Seventeenth-Century News, and Notes of the Music Library Association.  Publications also include scholarly editions of seventeenth-century music, including an edition of Giovanni Felice Sances, Motetti a 2, 3, 4, e cinque voci (1642), Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era 148 (Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2008); as well as editions of works by Giovanni Valentini and Antonio Bertali in the Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music (http://www.sscm-wlscm.org).  Current projects include a book titled Monarchical Representation and the Counter-Reformation at the End of the Thirty Years’ War: Sacred Music as Public Image for Emperor Ferdinand III of Habsburg (r. 1637-57).  Frequent presenter at scholarly conferences, including annual meetings of the American Musicological Society; meetings of the Southwest, New England, Midwest, and Capital Chapters of the AMS; meetings of other academic societies such as the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music and the South-Central Renaissance Conference; as well as at the international conference, “Strauss Among the Scholars,” held at Oxford University in 2007.  Also active as a chamber music and orchestral musician on the viola.