J. Peter Burkholder is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Musicology at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. He is the author of the four most recent editions of A History of Western Music and the Norton Anthology of Western Music. He has served as president of the American Musicological Society and of the Charles Ives Society, and his scholarship on Ives, modern music, musical borrowing, and music history pedagogy has won numerous awards and been translated into six languages. His most recent book is Listening to Charles Ives: Variations on His America.