Lecturer: Humanities
Office: Ketchum 226A
Phone: 303-492-8817
Alexandra.Eddy@Colorado.edu
Violinist and composer, Alexandra Eddy, is a faculty member in the Humanities Department of the University of Colorado and at the Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts, maintains a private modern violin, viola, and Baroque violin studio in Boulder, and has served on the music history faculties of the University of Colorado and of Sweet Briar College in Virginia.
Recent Courses
HUMN 1010: Introduction to Humanities I & II, see also HUMN 1010 Music Website
EMUS 1832: Appreciation of Music
MUSC 3812: History of Western Music (18th-century to 20th-century music)
MUSC 4882/5882: Studies in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Music
Articles
- The Rost Manuscript of Seventeenth-Century Chamber Music: A Thematic Catalog. Warren, Michigan: Harmonie Park Press, 1989 (Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography No. 63).
- The Western Musical Imagination, educational music letter written, edited, designed, and published four times a year (2000-2003) by Alexandra Eddy: essays on topics in music history.
Compositions
- Arion, a 50-minute Chamber opera for four performers, based upon the ancient Greek myth of Arion, a celebrated musician at the court of King Periander of Corinth. Using Thomas Bulfinch’s version of the story, the opera centers on Arion’s musical victory at a Sicilian musical competition and his subsequent escape from death on the sea voyage back to Corinth after being attacked by sailors who wanted his prize money. In Eddy’s presentation, the instrumental parts are conceived not as accompaniments to but as equal dramatic partners with the vocalist. Arion, Eddy’s first large-scale work, was written in homage to the great operatic composers of the 17th and 18th centuries: Monteverdi, Lully, Rameau, Gluck, and Handel.
