Rate My Professor Aaron Ziegel

Dr. Ziegel's central research focus examines American operas of the early twentieth century, with publications including articles in Music and Politics (2019) and The Opera Journal (2009), and a book chapter in In Search of the “Great American Opera” (Waxmann Verlag, 2016). Key works also feature an article on Arthur Nevin's career during World War I in American Music (2016), Vernon Duke's compositional style and career in American Music (2010), and a comparison of alternate film scores for Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête by Georges Auric and Philip Glass in Music Research Forum (2011). Contributions to music history pedagogy appear in Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy (2014) and the Journal of Music History Pedagogy (2018). His research has been presented at annual meetings of the American Musicological Society, Society for American Music, College Music Society, Nineteenth Century Studies Association, and National Opera Association. In public musicology, Ziegel is Scholar in Residence with Opera Baltimore, designing and presenting lecture series for each opera production. He also lectures for Pro Musica Rara, the Handel Choir of Baltimore, and Opera Delaware, and collaborated with Towson University student singers on a program of forgotten scenes and arias from Romantic-era American operas.