Seaton, Douglass

Douglass Seaton, Warren D. Allen Professor of Music at The Florida State University, holds the M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. His principal research interests are in the music of Felix Mendelssohn, the Classic/Romantic period, and relationships of literature and music. Dr. Seaton's dissertation dealt with Mendelssohn's compositional processes. He is the author of "Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition" and "The Art Song: A Research and Information Guide", and editor of The Mendelssohn Companion; and he prepared the scholarly edition of Mendelssohn's "Lo...