John
Curtis Franklin
Assistant Professor, Classics
University of Vermont
481 Main Street
Burlington VT 05405
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Current
Academic Interests
Music archeology and archeoacoustics; Aegean and Ancient Near Eastern
cultural history from the Early Bronze Age through the Classical
period; epic, lyric and wisdom poetry; song culture and oral tradition;
pre-Socratic philosophers; Indo-European and Near Eastern contexts of
Aegean culture, including Hellenic transitions in Iron Age Cyprus,
Anatolia and Philistia; Old, New, and Roman Comedy with reception;
performance criticism; South-Slavic heroic song; Greek traditional
music, incl. rembetiko; music technology, esp. modular synthesis and
experimental acoustics.
Higher
Education
Degrees
10/96–8/02 Ph.D., Classics, University College
London.
9/93–6/95 M.A., Classics, University of Washington
(Seattle).
9/84–6/88 B.M(us)., Composition, New England
Conservatory of Music.
Other
7/97 Erasmus Foundation Summer Program at the
University of Siena.
3/95–6/95 University of Washington Rome Program,
intensive study of Roman topography.
7/91–6/93 Postbaccalaureate study of Classics,
University of Washington.
6/88–8/88 Aspen Music Festival.
9/87–9/88 Student Member, Media Lab M.I.T.
1/84–5/84 Berklee College of Music.
Teaching
Experience
8/06–present Assistant Professor of Classics,
University of Vermont.
2/99–4/99 Postgraduate Lecturer, Department of Greek
and Latin, University College London.
9/95–6/96 Greek and Latin tutoring by referral form
the Department of Classics, University of Washington.
9/93–6/95 Teaching Assistant, Department of Classics,
University of Washington (Seattle).
9/91–12/91 Piano and guitar instruction, Seattle
Hebrew Academy.
Research
Fellowships and Other Institutional Affiliations
9/07–6/10 Declined: Junior Research Fellowship
(three-year), Jesus College, Oxford.
9/05–6/06 Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies,
Washington D.C.
2004 Declined: Visiting Fellowship, Institute for
Classical Studies, London.
11/03–6/04 Visiting Scholar, Department of Classics,
University of Sydney.
9/02–6/03 Multi-Country Fellow, Council of American
Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). Held in conjunction with the
American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the Cyprus American
Archaeological Research Institute (Nicosia), and the American Research
Institute in Turkey (Ankara branch).
9/02–6/03 Broneer Fellow, American School of
Classical Studies in Athens.
9/00–8/02 Rome Prize Fellow (two-year), American
Academy in Rome.
9/99–12/99 Frankfort Fellow, The Warburg Institute,
London.
9/96–6/99 Overseas Research Studentship (ORS): three
year award for doctoral research at University College London.
9/93–6/95 Five-year Teaching Assistantship,
University of Washington (two years completed).
Other
Awards
4/98 UCL travel grant for colloquium on Philodemus De
musica, organized by the Philodemus Project in Paris and Chantilly.
9/97 UCL travel grant for colloquium with Professor
Kilmer at University of California Berkeley, Department of Near Eastern
Studies.
9/92–6/93 Greenfield Scholarship, for
postbaccalaureate study of classics, University of Washington (Seattle).
8/88 BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) award for
music composition, Aspen Music Festival.
Other
Academic Employment
1–3/08 Narrator of and academic advisor/musical
contributor to a three-part series on Greek music for ArtsEdge (the
National Arts and Education Network), an online educational program run
by the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC
(http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org). Features selections from Clouds
and Cyprosyrian Girl (see below). Invited.
10/04–3/05 Freelance academic editing, incl. for the
American Schools of Oriental Research, and P. Richards, Black Heart:
The Moral Life of Recent
African-American Letters (New York, Peter Lang, 2005).
11/97–9/00 Researcher/editor for a
variety of projects with Erich Segal, including The Death of Comedy
(see below) and Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus and Terence
(Oxford, 2001).
2/98–2/99 Researcher, Oxford Marine Research
(Oxford): compiled database of historical shipwrecks.
Doctoral
Dissertation
Terpander: The Invention of Music in the
Orientalizing Period. Advisor,
Richard Janko. Examiners, Nick Lowe (internal, Royal Holloway) and
Walter Burkert (external, Zürich).
Published
Work
Please
note: Many of the PDFs available below and on other pages in this site
are protected by copyright. They are provided here as virtual
offprints for the purpose of individual study. I do not give permission
for them to be published anywhere else on the internet.
[Books]
['Incalculable contribution' (see intro) to E. Segal, The Death of Comedy (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard, 2001).]
[SoftSplice Digital Audio Editor User Guide (Bellevue, Washington:
Digital Expressions, Inc., 1994).]
Articles / Book Chapters
“Dictionaries
& Encyclopedias of Music. II.1 To the 15th Century”, in S.
Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second
edition (London, 2001), s.v. Revision of first edition article by J.
Coover, who had since died, and whose name remains first: his original
discussion of the Medieval period is largely unchanged; I rewrote the
section on antiquity. GET PDF
“Diatonic Music in Greece: A Reassessment of
its Antiquity”, Mnemosyne 56.1 (2002), 669-702. GET PDF
“Harmony in Greek and Indo-Iranian Cosmology”,
The Journal of Indo-European Studies 30.1/2 (2002), 1-25. GET PDF
“Musical Syncretism in the Greek
Orientalizing Period”, in Hickmann, E./Eichmann, R./Kilmer, A.
(eds.), Archäologie früher Klangerzeugung und Tonordnungen.
Studien zur Musikarchäologie 3 (Rahden, 2002), 441–51. GET PDF
“Aristophanes
Clouds: A Reconstruction” (short paper, metrical
translations of Aristophanic choral lyrics, and CD selections), in
Hickmann, E./Eichmann, R./Kilmer, A. (eds.), Archäologie
früher Klangerzeugung und Tonordnungen. Studien zur
Musikarchäologie 3 (Rahden, 2002), 661–4. Proceedings of biennial
meeting. GET PDF
“The Language of Musical Technique in
Greek Epic Diction”, Gaia. Revue interdisciplinaire sur la
Grèce archaïque 7 (2003), 295-307. GET PDF
“‘Once More the Poet’: Keats, Severn
and the Grecian Lyre”, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 48
(2003), 227-240. Republished in The Keats-Shelley Review 18 (2004). GET PDF
“Structural Sympathies in Ancient Greek and South
Slavic Heroic Singing”, in Hickmann, E./Eichmann, R. (eds.),
Musikarchäologische Quellengruppen: Bodenurkunden, mündliche
Überlieferung, Aufzeichnung. Studien zur Musikarchäologie 4
(Rahden, 2004). GET PDF
CD-Jacket
notes for Musica Romana, Mesomedes (2004). See also below
under Original Music.
“Hearing Greek Microtones”,
in Hagel, S./Harrauer, Ch. (eds.), Ancient Greek Music in Performance.
Wiener Studien Beiheft 29 (Vienna, 2005), 9–50 (with CD selections). GET PDF
“The Wisdom of the Lyre: Soundings in
Ancient Greece, Cyprus and the Near East”, in Hickmann,
E./Eichmann, R. (eds.), Musikarchäologie im Kontext:
Archäologische Befunde, historische Zusammenhänge,
soziokulturelle Beziehungen. Serie Studien zur Musikarchäologie 5
(Rahden, 2006), 379–98. GET PDF
“Lyre Gods of the Bronze Age Musical Koine”,
The Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 6.2 (2006), 39–70. GET PDF
“Orientalism
in Ancient Greek Music: The Role of Cyprus”, in CAARI News
31 (Winter, 2006), 10–11 (newsletter of the Cyprus American
Archaeological Research Institute).
“‘A Feast of Music’: The Greco-Lydian
Musical Movement on the Assyrian Periphery”, in Collins, B.
J./Bachvarova, M./ Rutherford, I. (eds.), Anatolian Interfaces:
Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors. (Oxford, Oxbow, 2007), 193–203. GET PDF
“The Global Economy of Music in the
Ancient Near East”, in Westenholz, J. G. (ed.), Sounds of Ancient
Music (Jerusalem, Keter Press, 2007), 27–37. GET PDF
“Realizations
in Ancient Greek Music: Beyond the Fragments”
(with CD
selections), in Hickmann, E./Eichmann, R./Both, A. A. (eds.), Serie
Studien zur Musikarchäologie 6 (Rahden). GET PDF
"'Song-Benders
of Circular Choruses': Dithyramb
and the ‘Demise of Music’”, in
Wilson, P./ Kowalzig, B. (eds.), Song Culture and Social Change: The
Contexts of Dithyramb (Oxford, OUP, in press). GET PDF
“Ancient Near
Eastern Music” and “Ancient Greek Music”,
ABC-Clio World History Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, in press).
Review of
A. Barker, The Science of
Harmonics in Classical Greece
(Cambridge, 2007), Mnemosyne (in
press).
“Music”, “Aulos” and “Phorminx” for Finkelberg, M. (ed.), The Homer
Encyclopedia (Blackwell, in press).
'Cyprus, Greek Epic, and Kypriaka', in Y. Maurey/E. Seroussi/J. Goodnick Westenholz, Yuval.
Studies of the Jewish Music Research Centre. Vol. 8: Sounds from the
Past: Music in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean Worlds (Jerusalem, in press). GET PDF
“South-Slavic
Heroic Melody: Towards a New Method of
Analysis” (submitted to Oral
Tradition).
"Kinyras at
Pylos" (submitted to Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus)
"Sweet Psalmist of Israel: The Kinnôr and Royal Ideology in the United Monarchy", in W. Heimpel (ed.), Festischrift for Anne Kilmer (in press) GET PDF
Works in
Progress (invited, contracted or near completion):
Books
The Middle Muse: Mesopotamian Echoes in Early Greek Music (under contract, Oxford).
Kinyras: The Divine Lyre
Articles / Book Chapters
“Kinyras
and the Musical Stratigraphy of Early Cyprus”, in preparation for for proceedings of Musical Traditions in
the Middle East: Reminiscences of a Distant Past (12/09), University of
Leiden (12/2009). GET PDF IN CURRENT STATE (with online images)
"Mopsus at Karatepe: The Musical Cosmopolis of Que"
"Aristotle, Amphion, and the Pythian-Victors List"
Conference
Papers and Other Lectures
Upcoming
South-Slavic
Heroic Melody: Towards a New Method of
Analysis, Singers and Tales in the 21st Century: The Legacies of Milman Parry and Albert Lord (December 3–5, 2010, Harvard)
Invited
paper / concert in Athens and Nauplio (6/1 and 6/5/2010) for the Center
for Hellenic Studies, part of the Athens Music Festival.
Vermont Phi Beta Kappa Society
Invited paper at Yale, 3/29/2010.
Seventh Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology, Tianjin, China (9/2010).
Yale University 3/29/2010
Delivered
“Kinyras and
the Musical Stratigraphy of Early Cyprus”, Musical Traditions in the
Middle East: Reminiscences of a Distant Past (12/09), University of
Leiden (12/2009).
Work-in-progress presentation, Interdisciplinary Workshop Series, UVM (11/2009).
“The Global Economy of Music in the Ancient Near East and Egypt”, The Fleming Museum, UVM (11/2009)
“Kinyras
and the Musical Stratigraphy of Early Cyprus”, Moisa Epichorios:
Regional Music and Musical Regions, MOISA, International Society for
the Study of Greek and Roman Music, Ravenna (10/2009, by proxy).*
Lecture at Willamette University (March 2009)
Lecture on ancient music at the Smithsonian, September
2008.
Invited
lecture on music archeology at Tufts, Fall 2008.
“Eastern Approaches to Ancient Greek Music”, Jerusalem, Bible Lands
Museum (Jan. 2008).
“The Epicentric Arrangement of the Archaic Heptachord”, Ionian
University, Corfu, Greece (Jul. 2007).
“Introduction to Ancient Greek Music”, Vermont Classical Languages
Association meeting (October, 2006).
"Realizations
in Ancient Greek Music: Beyond the Fragments", Fifth of the
International Study Group on Music Archaeology, Berlin (September,
2006).
“The East
Face of Ancient Greek Music”, Center for Hellenic Studies,
Washington DC (May 2006).
“Computer Media and the Realization of Ancient Music”, Emory University
(March 2006).
“Computer Media and the Realization of Ancient Music”, Center for
Hellenic Studies, Washington DC(February 2006).
“The East Face of Ancient Greek Music”, Bryn Mawr (Sept. 30, 2005).
"Dithyramb and the 'Demise of Music'", Song Culture and Social Change: The
Contexts of Dithyramb (Oxford, 2004).
“Lyre Gods, East and West”, Boston University (April 2, 2004).
"Lyroscopy in Greece, Cyprus and the Ancient Near East", Fourth Symposium of
the International Study Group on Music Archaeology, Michaelstein,
Germany (September, 2004).
"A 'Feast of Music:' Assyria, Lydia, and the Asiatic Kithara", Hittites, Greeks and their Neighbors in
Ancient Anatolia, Emory University, Atlanta, (September 2004).
“Terpander
and the ‘Asiatic Kithara’”, University of Sydney (April 29,
2004).
"Hearing Greek Microtones", Performing
Ancient Greek Music Today, Österreichische Akademie der
Wissenschaften, Vienna, September/October 2003).
“The Orientalizing Period in Greek Music”, the Cyprus American
Archaeological Research Institute, Nicosia (February, 2003).
"Musical Sympathies in Ancient Greek and South-Slavic Heroic Song",
Third Symposium of the International Study Group on Music
Archaeology, Michaelstein, Germany (June, 2002).
“The Melic Revolution: Assyria, Greece and the Seven-Stringed Lyre”,
American Academy in Rome (January, 2002).
“The Melic Revolution: Assyria, Greece and the Seven-Stringed Lyre”,
University of Manchester (U.K.) (January, 2002).
“The Orientalizing Period in Greek Music”, American Academy in Rome
(March, 2001).
"Syncretism and the Greek Musical Genera" and "Aristophanes Clouds: A
Musical Reconstruction", at the Second Symposium of the International
Study Group on Music Archaeology, Michaelstein, Germany (September,
2000).
“Harmony and Indo-European Cosmology”, at The Warburg Institute, London
(November, 1999).
“Harmonia and Yoga: Cognate Sciences?”, Eleventh UCLA Indo-European
Conference (June, 1999).
“Recomposing the Music of Aeschylus’ Choephori”, King’s College London
(February, 1999).
“Terpander and the Harmonic Circle”, University College London (June,
1997).
Declined
Iraqi embassy, Washington D.C. (Nov. 2006).
“Homer and Terpander”, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece (July 6-7,
2005).
Professional
Memberships
2007–present MOISA: International Society for Study
of Ancient Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage.
http://moisasociety.org/
2000–present Hartkerngruppe, International Study
Group for Music Archaeology (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut,
Orient-Abteilung). http://www.musicarchaeology.org/
2006–present Classical Association of New England.
2006–present Vermont Classical Languages Association.
2004–present American Philological Association.
Service
UVM Faculty Grievance Committee (2007–); Classics Dept. bibliographer
(2006–); academic advisor, Lyre of Ur Project (www.lyre-of-ur.com,
2006–); occasional referee for Classical Philology, Mnemosyne (2004–);
English editorial work for International Study Group for Music
Archaeology (2000–).
Music
Compositions, Emulations, Performances
2008 Selections from The Cyprosyrian Girl and Clouds
(see below) featured in ArtsEdge program, Kennedy Center (see above
under Other Academic Employment).
2006 Selections from The Cyprosyrian Girl (see above)
featured in two broadcasts on Italian National Radio (RAI
Radiotelevisione Italiana), part of a series on music archaeology
produced by Emiliano Li Castro. International, invited.
2003 ‘Virtual Lyre’ developed using Reaktor, a
modular softsynth platform from Native Instruments. Allows microtonal
adjustment of standard MIDI keyboard to achieve ancient tunings.
Featured on The Cyprosyrian Girl and description published in “Beyond
the Fragments” (see above). I have declined numerous internet requests
for this program.
2001 Aristophanes Clouds, revival directed by the
late David Mowat, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Four
performances in Rome, at the American Academy and the Museo Nazionale,
Palazzo Altemps, produced in collaboration with the English Language
Theatre of Rome, and sponsored by the American Academy, the Beni ed
Attività Culturali, the Greek Embassy, and Cronos-Aegean
Airlines. Sound recordings from show and reperformances published in
several places (see above and below).
2000 Aristophanes Clouds. Executive producer,
co-translator (with Charles Connaghan, UCL), musical ‘recomposition’,
visual design and phallic procession. Directed by Dan Robb, with
choreography by David Mowat (as above). Premiered in six performances
at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
1999 Composed and conducted chamber-orchestra score
for Midsummer Night’s Dream, production of the Arion Theatre Company,
London.
1999 Aeschylus Choephori. Musical ‘recomposition’ for
production at King’s College London, in ancient Greek, six performances
in the Twelfth London Festival of Greek Drama.
1996 Filmscore for Over the Rainbow, directed by
Patty Mulcahy. Seattle Film Festival.
Ethnomusicological Fieldwork
2002 Ten days of filming interviews and performances
of Romanian street musicians in Rome, in collaboration with Dr. Maria
Craciun, University of Cluj, towards a documentary provisionally
entitled Arrivederci Romania.
Discography
2006 The Cyprosyrian Girl: Hits of the Ancient
Hellenes. Vanity pressing with less than modest internet sales.
2004 Musica Romana (Cologne, Germany) record the
parabasis from Clouds (see above) on their CD Mesomedes, promoted
through museum concerts in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg,
Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Hungary. Their performances of the
parodos and parabasis is also featured on CD accompanying Ancient Greek
Music in Performance (see above).
2004 Audio demonstrations for “Hearing Greek
Microtones” included on CD accompanying Ancient Greek Music in
Performance.
2002 Selections from Clouds included on CD
accompanying E. Hickmann and R. Eichmann (ed.), Archäologie
früher Klangerzeugung und Tonordnungen. Serie Studien zur
Musikarchäologie, Orient-Archäologie (Deutsches
Archäologisches Institut Berlin, Orient-Abteilung, 2002).
1999 The Bigger the God, . . . And the Ugly (Outdigo
Records). Accordion, keyboards, some arrangement.
1999 Cud Scouts tracks included in The Aspen
Sampler, Volume 1 (Flying Dogs Records, Aspen Colorado). Song-writer,
accordion, keyboards.
1997 Sheryl Wiser, Month of Saints (Bopgirl).
Accordion.
1995 Interruptus, Umbrella Man (Cold Feet Records).
Accordion, keyboards, some arrangement.
Other
Employment
1/97–9/98 Record reviews and other occasional pieces,
The Gist (magazine, Oxford).
7/92–8/96 Numerous gigs in Seattle with SubMed
(mandolin/accordion duo) and The Bête-Noires (accordion, guitar,
drums ).
11/91–7/92 Founding partner, Rain or Shine Waffles
(Seattle).
10/91–9/93 Hummus-maker (Oasis brand), Kastoria Inc.
(Seattle).
7/90–9/91 School Secretary, Seattle Hebrew Academy.
1/90–5/90 Receptionist and word-processor, Camp
Dresser McKee Federal Programs Corporation (Boston).
1/89–9/89 Assistant Bookkeeper, North of Nell
Condominium Association (Aspen, Colorado).
11/88–12/88 Data entry, Godiva Chocolatier (New York
City).
1986–1988 Usher, Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall
(Boston).
9/85–6/88 Audio engineer and archivist, New England
Conservatory of Music (Boston).
9/86–10/87 Production intern, WGBH Public Radio
(Boston).