Dr. Amy Graziano
Professor, Bertea Family Endowed Chair in Music in the Hall-Musco Conservatory of
Music; Director of Historical Studies
Conservatory of Music, College of Performing Arts
Office Location: Oliphant Hall 302
Phone: (714) 997-6897
Email: graziano@chapman.edu
- Education:
- Vassar College, Bachelor of Arts
The University of Texas At Austin, Master of Music
The University of Texas At Austin, Ph.D.
Biography
Amy Graziano is Professor of Music and holds the Bertea Family Chair in Music in the
Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music at Chapman University. She serves as Director of
Music Industry Studies, Music History, Film Music, and other programs for the Conservatory.
She served 14 years as Chair of the Conservatory, stepping down from that position
in 2024. Dr. Graziano received her Ph.D. in musicology (1996) and M.M. (1990) from
the University of Texas at Austin and her B.A. (music and psychology, 1985) from Vassar
College. In addition, she completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Music Cognition
at the University of California, Irvine (1996-1999). At Chapman, she teaches introductory
and advanced courses in music history and film music, and The Psychology of Music. Dr. Graziano has engaged in significant curricular development, developing and managing
minor programs in Film Music, Music Technology, and Music Business, as well as the
B.A. Music, Music Industry Studies major program within Chapman’s Conservatory of
Music. With Dr. Julene Johnson, she studies the history of music psychology, with
a particular interest in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century studies of music
in neuroscience. Dr. Graziano has received several Chapman University awards for excellence
in teaching and scholarship.
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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
- Graziano, A.B, Born, E.C. & Johnson, J.K. (2020). Salomon Henschen and the Search for a Brain Center for Singing. In F. A. Russo, B. Ilari, & A. J. Cohen (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing. Volume 1: Development, (pp. 52-63). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781315163734
- Johnson, J K. & Graziano, AB. (2015). Some Early Cases of Aphasia and the Capacity to Sing, in E. Altenmüller, S. Finger & F. Boller (Eds.) Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives (Progress in Brain Research, Volume 216), Amsterdam: Elsevier, 73-89.
- Graziano, AB. & Johnson, JK. (2015). Music, Neurology and Psychology in the Nineteenth Century, in E. Altenmüller, S. Finger & F. Boller (Eds.) Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives (Progress in Brain Research, Volume 216), Amsterdam: Elsevier, 33-49.
- Graziano, A.B. & Johnson, J.K. “Music as a tool in the development of nineteenth-century neurology,” in J. Kennaway (Ed.) Music and the Nerves 1660-1945, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 152-169.
- Johnson, J.K., Lorch, M., Nicolas, S. & Graziano, A. “Jean-Martin Charcot’s role in the nineteenth-century study of music aphasia,” Brain, 2013, 136, 1662-1670.
- Graziano, A.B. & Johnson, J.K. Review: The Origins of Music, by Carl Stumpf, Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, & Brain, 2013, Vol. 23, No. 2, 127-130.
- Graziano, A.B., Pech, A., Hou, C. & Johnson, J.K. “Hermann Oppenheim’s Observations about Music in Aphasia,” Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2012, Vol. 21, 1-16.
- Johnson, J.K., Graziano, A.B. & Hayward, J. “Historical Perspectives on the Study of Music in Neurology,” in F.C. Rose (Ed.) Neurology of Music, London: Imperial College Press, 2010, 17-30.
- Graziano, A.B. “Music Psychology: The Building of a Community,” Psychomusicology: Music, Mind & Brain, special double issue: The History of Music Psychology in Autobiography, 2009, Vol. 20, No. 1 & 2, 158-162.
- Cohen, A.J. & Graziano, A.B., co-editors. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, & Brain, special double issue: The History of Music Psychology in Autobiography, 2009, Vol. 20, No. 1 & No. 2. (Co-Editor of Journal, special double issue, rather than book editor, but no designation for Journal editing.)