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Allison Alcorn

Professor of Musicology
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JH Julian Hall 56
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Email
aalcorn@ilstu.eduemail
  • About
  • Education
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Biography

Alcorn is a passionate teacher of music history, with degrees from the University of North Texas and Wheaton College. She serves on the Board of Governors for the American Musical Instrument Society and is past editor of the Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society.

Current Courses

MUS 156.001 American Music as Cultural History

MUS 156.002 American Music as Cultural History

MUS 400.001 Independent Study

MUS 457.001 Music Research: Sources And Methods

MUS 253.001 Western Art Music History Until 1825

MUS 452.001 Issues in Music Since 1950

MUS 156.001 American Music as Cultural History

MUS 299.001 Independent Honor Study

MUS 452.001 Issues in Music Since 1950

MUS 291.003 Undergraduate Teaching Experience In Music

MUS 254.001 Western Art Music History Since 1825

MUS 254.002 Western Art Music History Since 1825

Teaching Interests & Areas

early music, American music, online education, research and writing

Research Interests & Areas

American pipe organ, bowed strings, SoTL (music history pedagogy), American music and culture

PhD Musicology

University of North Texas
Denton, TX

MM Musicology

University of North Texas
Denton, TX

BM Music History and Literature

Wheaton College
Wheaton, IL

Grants and Contracts

Faculty Travel
Allison Ann Alcorn.
WKCFA. October 2023 - 2024
Instructional Innovation Grant
Allison Ann Alcorn.
Center for Integrated Professional Development. September 2022 - December 2022
University Teaching Grant
Allison Ann Alcorn, Kayla Hueneburg.
Illinois State University. October 2022 - May 2023
Culturally Responsive Learning
Allison Ann Alcorn.
ISU CTLT. - February 2021
Publications Grant
Allison Ann Alcorn.
American Musical Instrument Society. - 2018
Sage Fund
Allison Ann Alcorn.
ISU. - 2019
School support for Exhibition
Allison Ann Alcorn, Kayla Hueneburg.
Illinois State University. - May 2022
SoTL Travel Grant
Allison Ann Alcorn.
SoTL. - 2023
Travel Grant
Allison Ann Alcorn.
School of Music. - June 2023
University Research Grant
Allison Ann Alcorn.
ISU. - 2017
University Research Grant - Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Allison Ann Alcorn.
ISU. - 2019

Performances and Exhibits

Symphonic Diversity
Allison Ann Alcorn, Kayla Hueneburg, .
Milner Library. February 13 2023 - April 11 2023

Book Review

Open Access Musicology, ed. Daniel Barolsky and Louis Epstein
Allison Ann Alcorn.
(2022), 10, Journal of Music History Pedagogy
Review of Robert Adelson, Erard: Empire of the Harp
Allison Ann Alcorn.
Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association

Book, Edited

In the Music Museum: Seeing, Hearing, and Understanding Musical Instruments
Allison Ann Alcorn, Robert Adelson.
Oxford University Press

Journal Article

Carleen Maley Hutchins: Reconsidering the Legacy of a Luthier and Acoustician
Allison Ann Alcorn.
American Musical Instrument Society, XLVI, 178-223, (2020)

Other

featured in Music History/Musicology chapter
Judith Bowman, Allison Ann Alcorn.
Oxford University Press, (2022)

Presentations

Respondant. Charles Ives documentary film
Allison Ann Alcorn.
Charles Ives Festival, Normal, February, 2025
Miss America as the Ideal American Woman: Musical Instruments and Gendering
Allison Ann Alcorn, Trinity Howell, Keziah Cobden.
Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, May, 2024
Careers in Music: Musicology
Allison Ann Alcorn.
Carl Sandburg Middle School, Mundelein, IL, September 21, 2023
Interdisciplinary Collaboration toward Decolonizing the Canon
Allison Ann Alcorn, Kayla Hueneburg.
Teaching Music History, online, June 26, 2023
Start ‘em Young: Musical Instruments in Children’s Literature
Allison Ann Alcorn.
Annual meetings, Memphis, TN, June 2, 2023
You've Got to be Carefully Taught: A Case Study of Agency in University Music History Students
Allison Ann Alcorn.
Music, Research, and Activism, Helsinski, Finland, May 10, 2023
Carleen Maley Hutchins: A Force to be Reckoned With
Allison Ann Alcorn.
A Powerful Force: Women in Music, Muncie, IN, October, 2020
Pandemic Music History: Children's Story and Activity Time
Allison Ann Alcorn.
Pandemic Music History, online, April, 2020
Synthesis Journals in the Music History Classroom: Keeping Sight of the Big Picture
Allison Ann Alcorn, Matthew Heller.
American Musicological Society Great Lakes Chapter, online, March, 2020
Synthesis Journals as a Path Through the Forest: Preliminary Findings and Student Perceptions
Allison Ann Alcorn.
Teaching and Learning Symposium, Normal, January, 2020