Music Man and Associate Dean Gene Narmour is a music man.
All indications point to a most harmonious fit.
While Narmour's research and publications are in theory, he originally came to Penn 24 years ago as a performer-conductor of the University Orchestra, University Choir, and University Choral Society. With a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Chicago and degrees from the Eastman School of Music, he has probed almost all areas of his field. A musicologist, Narmour explains, must acquire a very broad education. I'm always constructing experimental hypotheses and looking for numerical valuations of listeners' responses to music. So I know a little bit about psychology and statistical analysis, both of which figure in the social sciences.