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Joel Mandelbaum

Dr. Joel Mandelbaum was born in New York City, NY in 1932. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s in music in 1953, received an M.F.A in Musical Composition from Brandeis University in 1957, and a Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1961. Dr. Mandelbaum’s dissertation topic, titled “Multiple Division of the Octave and the tonal resources of 19-tone Temperament,” was the first Ph.D. dissertation on microtonality. In his time as a professor at Queens College, Dr. Mandelbaum was Chairman of the Music Department from 1974-1978, Director of the Aaron Copland School of Music from 1981-84, and Chair of the Academic Senate (chief faculty officer) from 1997-99. Although he retired from his position in 1999, he retains the title of Professor Emeritus.  Bio courtesy of Queens College Special Collections and Archives (SCA)

ITEMS ON DISPLAY IN THE MUSIC LIBRARY:

An explosion of memory : Constance Beavon sings music of Joel  Mandelbaum  to the poetry of May Sarton.
Mandelbaum, Joel, composer, instrumentalist.;  Sarton, May, 1912–1995, author.;  Beavon, Constance, singer.; Huang, Alice, instrumentalist.; Yamamoto, Asuka, instrumentalist.; Mandelbaum, Joel.
Circulating CD 7799

Quintet for Wind Instruments
Mandelbaum, Joel
Oversize X M557 .M36 Q7

She : a cycle of five songs for soprano, baritone and orchestra to poems of Theodore Roethke
Mandelbaum, Joel
M1621.4 S54

Who might sing in all the muted woods : three song cycles
Mandelbaum, Joel.; Sunnegårdh, Erika.; Mandelbaum, Joel.; Franklin, Katie.; Lesser, Diane.
Circulating CD 1415

A wind of Fall : four poems of Leonie Adams
Mandelbaum, Joel
M1619.5 .M27 W3

With primeval candor : song cycle 10
Mandelbaum, Joel
M1619.5 .M26 W5

ADDITIONAL LIBRARY RESOURCES:

3 choruses to pastoral texts of Archibald MacLeish
Mandelbaum, Joel
M1579 .M283 C5

The avowal
Mandelbaum, Joel
M1619.5 .M27 W5

Ceremonial #1 : for flute and piano or harp
Mandelbaum, Joel
M242 .M36 C41

Diverse light : works by Judith Sainte Croix, Edward Smaldone, Joel Mandelbaum, Martin Halpern, Marga Richter, and Julie Mandel..
Sainte Croix, Judith., Smaldone, Edward M., Mandelbaum, Joel., Halpern, Martin., Richter, Marga., Mandel, Julie.
Circulating CD 3496

Dream songs
Mandelbaum, Joel
M1619.5 .M27 D7

Fatal interview : eight songs to sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Mandelbaum, Joel
M1619.5 .M27 M56 1984

Five pieces : for alto recorder (or flute or violin or oboe) and piano (or harpsichord)
Mandelbaum, Joel
M270 .M26 P55 1974

Gestalt at sixty : song cycle 11
Mandelbaum, Joel
M1619.5 .M27 G4

Harmonize your spirit with my calm : Instrumental works and songs to poetry of Russian and American poets.
Lehrman, Leonard., Mandelbaum, Joel.
Circulating CD 3606

Love found and lost… : songs to texts by May Sarton
Mandelbaum, Joel
M1619.5 .M276 L6

The past is now : song cycle 13
Mandelbaum, Joel
M1619.5 .M27 P3

Quiet homecoming : 5 poems of Leonie Adams
Mandelbaum, Joel
M1619.5 .M27 Q8

Romance : for string trio
Mandelbaum, Joel
M351 .M26 R1

Sonata : for flute and piano
Mandelbaum, Joel
M242 .M36 S6

Two Irish songs (Yeats)
Mandelbaum, Joel
M1619.5 .M26 T2 1979

NON-LIBRARY RESOURCES:

Former Music Faculty Exhibit
Music Library Online Exhibits