Frederick Gable

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., University of Iowa

Email: frederick.gable@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-3557

Areas of Interest:

• Performance practice of early music
• J.S. Bach
• 17th-century German sacred music and liturgy (Hamburg)
• Polychoral music
• Early instruments

Professor Frederick K. Gable teaches Music History Survey to 1900, Seminar in Baroque Music, Performance Practices of Early Music, Music of J. S. Bach, Construction of Early Instruments, and History of the Sonata. Much of his time since coming to UCR in 1968 has been spent directing the Collegium Musicum, a student ensemble performing Renaissance and Baroque music on instruments of the period. With the Collegium Musicum he has given over 100 performances in Southern California and has been a teacher and coach of viols and recorders at many early music workshops in California. Prof. Gable received his PhD degree from the University of Iowa with a dissertation on The Polychoral Motets of Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629). He continues to edit and publish the vocal works of Praetorius in modern editions and has recently issued The Motets of Jacob Praetorius II which has been recorded complete on CD in Germany. Prof. Gable received the AMS Noah Greenberg Award in 1994 for his edition of the Hamburg Gertrudenmusik of 1607, a complete reconstruction of a North German festival church service. Other service reconstructions have been presented at the Jacobikirche in Hamburg, Germany, and at the summer Organ Academies sponsored by the University of Göteborg, Sweden. Publications by Prof. Gable have appeared in Early Music, Performance Practice Review, A Performer’s Guide to Renaissance Music, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The American Recorder, The Journal of the Viola da Gamba Society, Proceedings of the Göteborg International Organ Academy, and elsewhere. His current work investigates the liturgical and musical relationships between the vocal and organ music of early 17th-century Germany. He has given papers on these topics at international conferences in England, Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, and the US. Prof. Gable is an active member of the American Musicological Society, American Musical Instrument Society, Society for 17th-century Music (and American Heinrich Schütz Society), Early Music America, and Viola da Gamba Society of America.

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