Walter Clark

Professor

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Email: walter.clark@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-2114
Office: ARTS 145

Walter Aaron Clark received his doctorate in musicology from UCLA (1992), where he worked with Robert M. Stevenson. He also holds performance degrees in classical guitar from the North Carolina School of the Arts (B.M.), where he studied with Jesús Silva and performed in a master class with Andrés Segovia, and the University of California, San Diego (M.A.), where he was a student of Pepe Romero. Clark studied early music with lutenist Jürgen Hübscher and concertized in Germany for two years on a Fulbright grant (1984-86). Before coming to UCR, he was on the faculty at the University of Kansas for ten years, having previously taught various courses at Scripps and Pomona Colleges, California State University, Long Beach, and UCLA.

Prof. Clark's specialty is the music of Spain and Latin America, and he is the founder/director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at the University of California, Riverside. He is also the coordinator of the American Musicology Society’s Ibero-American Music Study Group. His research has appeared in The Musical Quarterly, Revista de Musicología, Journal of the Lute Society of America, Soundboard Magazine, Ópera Actual, Piano, Inter-American Music Review, Anuario Musical, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.), Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2nd ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd ed., forthcoming), and the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latin Music (forthcoming). He is the author of Isaac Albéniz: A Guide to Research (Garland, 1998) and Isaac Albéniz: Portrait of a Romantic (Oxford, 1999; paperback, 2002), also available in Spanish translation (Turner, 2002) and on the Internet (Questia). He is the editor of From Tejano to Tango: Latin American Popular Music (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor (with Luisa Morales) of Antes de Iberia:  de Masarnau a Albéniz (Asociación Cultural LEAL, 2009). He has published research on topics as diverse as the lute and vihuela intabulations of Josquin's Mille Regretz, Isaac Albéniz's opera Merlin, the Hollywood musicals of Carmen Miranda, the choral, stage, and piano works of Enrique Granados, the guitar studies of Fernando Sor, and the guitar transcriptions of Francisco Tárrega. He was the 1992 recipient of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Research Fellowship in England, and his work on the opera Riders to the Sea appeared in Vaughan Williams Essays (Ashgate, 2003). His latest book is Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano (Oxford, 2006; paperback 2011), which received the 2006 Robert M. Stevenson Award in Iberian musicology from the American Musicological Society. He has published reviews in American Music, the Journal of the Society for American Music, Journal of Musicological Research, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and Notes of the Music Library Association; he also served as a contributing editor to the Handbook of Latin American Studies. In addition, he has written liner notes for Hyperion, Naxos, DGG, BIS, Tritó, and Decca. He has read papers at numerous conferences throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Prof. Clark is co-authoring (with William Krause) a book entitled Federico Moreno Torroba: A Musical Life in Three Acts (Oxford University Press, due out in 2012), and he is co-editing (with Michael O’Connor) a collection entitled Treasure of the Golden Age: Essays on Music of the Iberian and Latin American Renaissance in Honor of Robert M. Stevenson (Pendragon Press, due out in 2012). He is the contributing editor (with Robin Moore, managing editor) of a new textbook, Musics of Latin America (W. W. Norton, due out in 2012); in addition, he is preparing the first-ever edition of Granados's Catalan opera Follet (Tritó). He is the series editor for Oxford University Press's Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music.

Prof. Clark teaches a wide variety of courses, including Introduction to Western Classical Music (MUS 2), Latin American Folk and Popular Styles (MUS 15), Latin American Classical Heritage (MUS 16), Music of Spain (MUS 18), History of Western Music (MUS 112A-C), Representations of Spain in Music and Dance, 1700-Present (MUS/DNC 155E, with Prof. Linda Tomko), Bibliography and Research Methods (MUS 200), Proseminar in Musicology (MUS 206), as well as graduate seminars on Flamenco and Spanish Nationalism and on the Tango and Piazzolla (MUS 263). As a guitarist, he has devoted many years to the study of flamenco, in both the U.S. (with René Heredia) and Spain (with Ricardo Modrego), and he performed frequently as guitar accompanist and soloist with the flamenco dance troupe Olé in Kansas City. He has developed an educational video on flamenco in collaboration with Eugene Enrico and his Early Music Television production company at the University of Oklahoma. He served as author and narrator of the DVD, which was filmed on location in Sevilla (due out in 2011).

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