DOUGLASS SEATON, Professor of Musicology, holds the B. Mus. degree from The College of Wooster (Ohio) and 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 Lobgesang (Symphony No. 2) published by Carus-Verlag in Stuttgart, Germany. His articles have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, The Musical Quarterly, The Music Review, College Music Symposium, Ars lyrica, and The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, among others.

Before coming to The Florida State University in 1978, Seaton taught at Columbia University and Yeshiva University and served as Editor-in-Chief of Current Musicology. Dr. Seaton is former President of The College Music Society, having previously served as secretary and as editor of the CMS newsletter. He has also served on the Council of the American Musicological Society.