Kenneth Levy, the Scheide Professor of Music History emeritus at Princeton, died Aug. 15, 2013, from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 86.
After serving in World War II, Levy graduated from Queens College in 1947. At Princeton, he earned an MFA in 1949 and then a Ph.D. in music in 1955. He taught at Brandeis for 12 years before joining the Princeton faculty in 1966. He was chair of the music department from 1967 to 1970 and again in 1988, the year he became the Scheide Professor. He retired in 1995.
Levy was a scholar of medieval and Renaissance music as well as the history of music. From Princeton, he received the Behrman Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities in 1983, and the President’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1995. He published widely during his career, including Music: A Listener’s Introduction (1982), based on his Music 103 course lectures.
He is survived by his wife, Brooks Emmons Levy, and children Robert ’89 and Helen *98.
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