Donald C. Meyer
Associate Professor
Music

Phone 847-735-5171
E-mail meyer@lakeforest.edu
Web http://web.me.com/emmeyer/Don_Meyer,_Composer/Don_Meyer.html


Specialization
Music in General Studies
Music History
Composition
Electronic Music
Music Theory

Interests
Music in Film, Twentieth Century American Music History, History of Rock, History of Orchestras 

Education
Ph.D., Music, University of California, Davis
M.A., Music, University of California, Davis
B.A., Liberal Studies, Magna Cum Laude, University of California, Santa Barbara

Courses Taught
Music 104: Perspectives on Music
Music 150: Fundamentals of Music
Music 151: Music Theory I
Music 160: Musicianship
Music 217: World Music Survey
Music 225: Introduction to Electronic Music
Music 262: Great Composers
Music 264: History of Rock and Roll
Music 265: American Music
Music 266: Music in Film
Music 325: Advanced Electronic Music
Music 360: Music History I: From Chant to Bach
Music 361: Music History II: From Classical to Contemporary

Books
Perspectives on Music. Prentice Hall, 2003. (author)

Articles
"Toscanini and the Good Neighbor Policy: The NBC Symphony Orchestra’s 1940 Tour to South America." American Music 18:3 (Fall 2000). (author)

"Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra: High, Middle and Low Culture." Essays on American Music, vol. 3, ed. Michael Saffle. New York: Garland, 2000. (author)

"The Real Cooking is Done in the Studio: Toward a Context for Rock Criticism." Popular Music and Society 19:1 (Spring 1995). (author)

"The Genesis of the NBC Symphony Orchestra." Amadeus, May 1995. (author)

Creative Works
Original music to Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger (in collaboration with Dave Amrein and Meg Golembiewski ’10, to be premiered in the Lake Forest College Chamber Orchestra, October 2007.

“Hat,” music accompanying fiction by Steve Gilmartin.  Mad Hatters’ Review 8 (July 2007)

“A without Q.”  Sound collage composed with author Carol Nowack.  Notre Dame Review 23 (Winter 2007)

“Monuments to Indian Native First Nations American Tenacity in the Stacked Face of Continual Misrepresentation.”  Author-Text-Video Collage with Tom Denlinger and Davis Schneiderman.  Mad Hatters’ Review 8 (July 2007)

Electric Blackberries interactive electronic music composition, August 2006

Original music to Shakespeare's The Tempest, directed by Dennis Mae at Lake Forest College, February 2006.

Incidental music to Catch a Rising Bullet, Independent film directed by Brian Warshawsky. Doberman Studios in association with Chicago Multimedia, released 2006.

"Inter-Textual Pacific Air." Sound collage composed with novellist Davis Schneidermann. Premiered at an American Book Review-sponsored reading, Illinois State University, December 2, 2005.

Piano Prelude V.  Premiered at the Lake Forest College Faculty Symposium, October 8, 2004

Piano Prelude IV: Homage to Dave Brubeck. Premiered at the Lake Forest College Faculty Symposium, October 8, 2004

Piano Prelude III: Hubbard Woods (Homage to Liz Story). Performed: North Shore Unitarian Church, Northbrook, Illinois, August 29, 2004; Lake Forest Faculty Symposium, October 8, 2004; East On Central Publication Party, Highland Park Community House, June 22, 2005; Highland Park City Gallery Opening Celebration, Highland Park Borders, July 8, 2005.

Arabia. An electronic music composition written for the Taz-Wood Dance Company. Premiered on 25 April 2003 at Illinois Central College (East Peoria, IL).

New England Waltz. An electronic music composition written for the Taz-Wood Dance Company. Premiered on 4 May 2001 at Illinois Central College (East Peoria, IL).

Frequency. An electronic music composition written for the Taz-Wood Dance Company. Premiered on 4 May 2001 at Illinois Central College.

Boddhisatva. An electronic music composition written for the Taz-Wood Dance Company. Premiered on 27 April 2000 at Illinois Central College.

Acorn Theory. An electronic music composition written for the Taz-Wood Dance Company. Premiered on 27 April 2000 at Illinois Central College.

Angels and Heroes. An electronic music composition written for the Taz-Wood Dance Company. Premiered on 14 May 1999 at Illinois Central College.

Mercury’s Heel. An electronic music composition written for the Taz-Wood Dance Company. Premiered on 13 June 1997 at Illinois Central College.

Awards and Honors
William Dunn Award (Lake Forest College, 1997-98, For outstanding teaching and scholarly promise)

Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award (UC Davis, 1991-92)

David Saxon Award for Excellence in the Performance of Early Music (UC Davis, 1989-90)