Graeme Boone

Area: Musicology
Graeme Boone

Graeme Boone, associate professor of music, was born and raised in San Francisco, and educated at the University of California, Berkeley (B.A.); National Superior Conservatory of Music, Paris (Premier prix, histoire de la musique); and Harvard University (M.A., Ph.D.). He has taught at Haverford College and at Harvard University, where he served as assistant and associate professor of music. Boone's primary specialization is in Renaissance music.

He wrote his dissertation on the songs of Guillaume Dufay and has written articles and a monograph (Patterns in Play, 1999) on related subjects, involving paleography, musical analysis, and the relationship between poetry and song. In addition, he has pursued interests in American popular music and its underlying folk traditions, as well as in ethnomusicology. To that end, he has co-edited a book of essays in the analysis of rock music (Understanding Rock, 1997) and a book of writings in jazz history. As a professor, he has taught courses in the subjects named above, and in other areas of classical, popular, and non-Western music. As a performer, he specializes in guitar, banjo, and other instruments of American folk tradition.