Russell Murray is Associate Professor of Music History and Literature and director of the Collegium Musicum. His regular course assignment includes Medieval and Renaissance Music (MUSC 311) and Baroque and Classical Music (MUSC 312). He also teaches courses on the History of Musical Instruments and Women in Music and is on the Core Faculty of the Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Program. He has been at the University of Delaware since 1991.

A native of California, he holds a Bachelor of Music and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (University of Redlands, 1978), a Master of Music Education and a Ph.D. in Musicology (University of North Texas, 1980 and 1989). He previously taught at The University of North Texas, Texas Wesleyan University (Ft. Worth) and Rice University (Houston).

Dr. Murray's research has focused primarily on North Italian sacred music of the Renaissance. His work includes biographical, historical, and theoretical studies of music and musicians in the city of Parma. He received a Fulbright Award for Dissertation Research in 1986-87, as well as University grants to continue his work. He is the co-editor of an electronic edition of Pietro Pontio's Dialogo (1595) published as part of the Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum. He regularly presents papers at national and international conferences and has published articles in Theoria, Studi musicali and Explorations in Renaissance Culture. He is a contributor to the Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and has reviewed books and software for MLA Notes, Music Analysis, Sixteenth-Century Studies Journal, and The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. He recently received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to co-direct an international conference on Pedagogy in the Renaissance in conjunction with faculty at the Peabody Conservatory and Vanderbilt University.

New technology is an important component in Dr. Murray's teaching, and he has developed multimedia and interactive course materials utilizing CD and Laser Disc media in conjunction with the hyper-text and interactive formats available with the computer. These materials range from simple guides for individual pieces to more involved lessons that are integrated into the structure of the individual courses. He is author of the Interactive Presentations and Listening Guides for the Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music and (with Kristin Forney) the Norton WebBOOK and the Norton/Sony Essentials of Music, all published by W.W. Norton.

Dr. Murray is the founding director of the University of Delaware Collegium Musicum. Under his leadership, the Collegium has grown from four students to a program incorporating a number of vocal instrumental ensembles regularly involving twenty to thirty students. He is an occasional performer on recorders and renaissance winds as well as trumpet and cornet, and is a member of Newberry's Victorian Cornet Band.

Dr. Murray is a faculty sponsor for Pi Kappa Lambda and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.