Andrew Weaver, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Musicology

Email: weavera@cua.edu

Andrew Weaver

Andrew H. Weaver, (Ph.D., M.Phil., Yale University; B.M., Rice University) assistant professor of musicology.  A specialist in music of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly in Austria, Germany, and Italy, he has also published on music of the Renaissance.  Specific research interests include sacred music, patronage studies, monarchical representation, 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).  His publications include articles in the Journal of Musicology, Music & Letters, Schütz-Jahrbuch, 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.  His publications also include scholarly editions of seventeenth-century music, including Motets by Emperor Ferdinand III and Other Musicians from the Imperial Court, Collegium Musicum: Yale University (Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, forthcoming); 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).  His current projects include a book titled Representing the Counter-Reformation Monarch: Sacred Music as Public Image for Emperor Ferdinand III of Habsburg at the End of the Thirty Years' War. 

Prof. Weaver is a frequent presenter at scholarly conferences in both the US and abroad.  Conferences in America have included annual meetings of the American Musicological Society; meetings of the Southwest, New England, Midwest, and Capital Chapters of the AMS; and meetings of other academic societies such as the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music and the South-Central Renaissance Conference.  International conferences have included the biannual meeting of the A.M.I.S. - Como (held at the Catholic University of Milan), "Sacred Music in the Habsburg Empire 1619-1740 and Its Contexts" (held at the University of Utrecht), and "Strauss Among the Scholars: An International Conference" (held at Oxford University).  He has also recorded Podcast lectures for the Washington National Opera. 

Prof. Weaver's graduate-level courses have included Music of the Baroque, Music of the Romantic Period, Twentieth-Century Music, Research Methodology, and special topics courses on Richard Strauss and on Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, the latter of which was fully integrated into a student production of the opera that he produced.  He has also taught doctoral seminars on seventeenth-century sacred music and the Romantic song cycle.

Weaver continues to play the viola and is an active chamber music and orchestral musician in the DC area.