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Mark A. Harbold, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Music

Elmhurst University

markh@elmhurst.edu
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2021 to present

  • Currently out of the office.

  • I retired at the end of August, 2021, and was granted emeritus status by the Elmhurst University Board of Trustees on October 15, 2021. What’s next? Who knows?!

2018-2021 Course Web Sites

2017-2018 Sabbatical, Faculty Exchange & Fulbright-Nehru Project

  • I was off-campus in 2017-2018, pursuing a sabbatical project and carrying out my Fulbright-Nehru grant proposal, Collaboration in Teaching and Learning Music in South India, as a visiting professor at Madras Christian College in Chennai, India.

2007-2016 India Course Web Sites

  • 2016 J-Term in India—From the Big Temples to the Silver Screen: The Music of South India (MUS 492/495) January 6-30—Three weeks in South India working with Indian musicians and scholars, visiting historic, religious, and cultural sites in Bengaluru, Belur, Chennai, Mamallapuram, Pondicherry, Thanjavur, Tiruvaiyaru, & Thillaisthanam. Led by Elmhurst Professor Mark Harbold, Pt. Dr. Nagarajrao Havaldar (in Bengaluru & Karnataka), and Professor Suri Purushotham, faculty coordinator at Madras Christian College (in Chennai & Tamil-Nadu).
  • Indian Art and Music (UMAIE 3618—January 2010)—Led by Elmhurst Professors Mark Harbold & Lynn Hill with Professor Joseph Sathiaraj, Madras Christian College faculty coordinator.
  • Music, Religions, and Culture of India (UMAIE 3316—January 2007)—Led by Elmhurst Professors Mark Harbold & Mladen Turk with Professor Joseph Sathiaraj, Madras Christian College faculty coordinator.

2009-2010 Faculty Exchange & Sabbatical

Web Publications

  •  January 2020 Unchavriti Procession—A short Youtube video created by BBC/Doordarshan photographers and narrated by Smt. Madhuvanti Badri provides a record of the traditional annual re-enactment of St. Thyagaraja singing and begging for rice in the streets of Thiruvaiyaru as part of the Thyagaraja Aradhana festival. Thiruvaiyaru (Thanjavur District), India
        (Photo above is a screenshot from that video)
  • iWeb Site for LISTEN, Ninth Edition (W.W. Norton, 2019)
  • iMarabu Foundation Web Site—Provides information about an organization founded by Dr. Rama Kausalya, devoted to preserving and promoting classical and traditional music, dance, arts & culture and teaching them to the children of Thillaisthanam (Thanjavur District), India
  • iRuth Crawford in Chicago—An Interdisciplinary Conference (Fall 2001)

Other Links

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Contact Information

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Dr. Mark Harbold
c/o Music Department
      Elmhurst University
      190 S. Prospect Ave. 
      Elmhurst, IL 60126
Email markh@elmhurst.edu

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  Photo at top: Mark Harbold (back) following the Thyagaraja Aradhana Unchavriti procession in Thiruvaiyaru, Thanjavur, India, January 2020.

  Border & horizontal rules—details from photo of a tanpura neck.

  Page created by Mark Harbold 12/11/00—last updated 6/25/22.