Marquis Who's Who Millennium Magazine

351 A Marquis Who's Who Magazine W illiam Richard Shindle is a musical genius with over 50 years of experience imparting his knowledge to undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Shindle obtained a Bachelor of Music from Illinois Wesleyan University, a Master of Music in musicology and a Ph.D. in musicology from Indiana University. In 1959 he began his educational career as a teacher for Calvert County High School. After serving in that position for a year, he became a research assistant at Indiana University, where he served for two years. The experience he gained from his previous roles allowed him to obtain a position as instructor and librarian at Binghamton University’s Harpur College from 1964 to 1965. He later relocated to Ohio, where he made his home at Kent State University and served as a professor of musicology for 25 years and earned the title of professor emeritus in 1991. Dr. Shindle has utilized his musical knowledge to contribute to the first and second updated editions of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Ercole Pasquini’s “Collected Keyboard Works,” the third volume of Girolamo Frescobaldi’s “Keyboard Compositions Preserved in Manuscripts,” and Jean de Macque’s “Sieben Madrigale zu 5 und 6 Stimmen.” He also worked on “Frescobaldi Studies” and volume one of the Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments, and was a research assistant to Willi Apel at Indiana University from 1962 to 1964. Dr. Shindle was a fellow at Indiana University from 1965 to 1966 and a summer research fellow at Kent State University in 1974, 1980 and 1983. He is a member of the American Musicological Society and the Pennsylvania German Society and served in the U.S. Navy as a second class petty officer from 1951 to 1955. Dr. Shindle is featured in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. William Richard Shindle, Ph.D. Musicologist, Educator (Retired) Westminster, MD