Alma College | Music Department | Faculty: Scott Messing

Scott Messing joined the Alma faculty in 1982, and was named Charles A. Dana Professor of Music in April 2000. A music historian, he received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Michigan and his B.A. from Rutgers University.

His book, Neoclassicism in Music, is now in its third printing from the University of Rochester Press, and he is co-author with David Crawford of another book, Gaspar de Albertis' Sixteenth-Century Choirbooks at Bergamo (1994). He is currently completing a book on Franz Schubert's reception history in the nineteenth century.

His articles on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have appeared in such journals as The Journal of Musicology, The Beethoven Journal, Proteus, and The Michigan Academician. Other articles have appeared in the essay anthologies Wien 1897: Kulturgeschichtliches Profil eines Epochenjahres (1999) and Music and Modern Art (2002). He has read numerous papers on similar topics at regional, national and international conferences. He has received grants from the Lilly Endowment and the National Endowment for the Humanities (the latter three times). He served three times as the director of the Midwest Consortium for Study Abroad program in Vienna. In 1994, he received Alma's Barlow Award for Faculty Excellence. He serves as president of Alma College's Phi Beta Kappa chapter, and he is president of the Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society.