EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Historical Musicology, University of California, Riverside
• M.A. in Musicology, University of California, Riverside
• B.Mus. in Instrumental Performance, La Sierra University

Biography

Additionally, David is interested in organology (the study of musical instruments), with a particular focus on brass instruments in the 19th century and how they influenced the Bach and Handel revivals late in that century.  He formerly directed a Civil War-era brass ensemble that played on period instruments as well as modern reproductions, and was featured both in sound tracks and on the screen for films and television shows.

David graduated from La Sierra University in 2002 as a low brass performance major, and continues to perform in university and local ensembles on any number of brass instruments.  He also continues to teach euphonium students at the university.  Before joining the faculty in 2014, David served as an Adjunct Professor at La Sierra from 2003–2014, a Lecturer in Music at the University of California, Riverside, from 2010–2014 and Minister of Music at Immanuel Lutheran Church (Riverside) from 2007–2014.

David was fortunate enough to be granted a research sabbatical in 2016 to perform documentary research on liturgical music in the Philippines, and where he also held the position of Visiting Professor of Musicology at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, College of Music.

David currently lives in Riverside with his wife Shiela and daughters Carmina and Mikaëla.

E-mail: dkendall@lasierra.edu
Phone: (951) 785-2128

PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES AND AFFILIATIONS

• American Musicological Society
• Society for Ethnomusicology
• American Musical Instrument Society
• Historic Brass Society

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

“Parish Music History and Economic Administration: Three Case Studies in the Central Visayas,” in Arwin Tan, ed., Saysay Himig: a Source Book on Philippine Music History, ca. 1880-1941(University of the Philippines Press, 2018): 243-56 

“Roman Catholic Liturgical Music in the Intra-Colonial Period in the Philippines (1880-1940),” in Arwin Tan, ed., Saysay Himig: a Source Book on Philippine Music History, ca. 1880-1941(University of the Philippines Press, 2018): 83-90 

“Exotic Exhibitionism at the Exhibit: Music and the Evolutionary Sociocultural Continuum at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair” Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia 7, no. 2 (Ateneo University Press, 2017): 19-41 

“Singing to Subdue or Sustain?: Looking for an Ethic of Conservation in Christian Liturgical Song and Hymnody” in Melissa Brotton, ed., Ecotheology and Nonhuman Ethics: Community and Compassion(Lexington Books, 2017): 119-38 

“’All nature sings, and around me rings the music of the spheres.’  Christianity and the transmission of a cosmic ecomusicology” in Melissa Brotton, ed., Ecotheology in the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Divine in the Natural World(Lexington Books, 2016): 131-44 

“Reconstructing and Performing Philippine Liturgical Music in the Context of the Greater Iberian Colonial Tradition.” Pintacasi: a Journal of Church Cultural Heritage9 (2013) 

“This is not Filipino Music”: Syncretism, homogeneity, and the search for Philippine-ness in Spanish colonial liturgical music.”  Pintacasi: a Journal of Church Cultural Heritage8 (2012): 13-40 

“The Estilo Parroquial: an International Liturgical Tradition in the Philippines.” Pintacasi: a Journal of Church Cultural Heritage6 (2010): 58-69 

“Performance Practice and Authenticity in Philippine Musicology: First Impressions.” Pintacasi: a Journal of Church Cultural Heritage 5 (2009): 31-45   

REPRESENTATIVE PRESENTATIONS

“Singing Timeless Truths in Times of Change: Liturgical Music and Parish Financial Administration in the Colonial Philippines, 1800-1946,” Joint Meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California Chapters of the American Musicological Society, University of Southern California, April 2017 

“Christian Hymnody and the Ethics of Acknowledgement, Subjugation and Conservation,” Natures 2017 (9^thAnnual Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference), La Sierra University, April 2017 

“Instruments, Organists, and Choirmasters: Parish Music and Economic Administration in the Philippine Intra-Colonial Period,” UP College of Music Research Colloquium, University of the Philippines, Diliman, December 2016 

“Liturgical Music in the Colonial Philippines: Currents and Case Studies,” Intersections: A Symposium on Music, Culture and the Making of Filipino Society, University of Santo Tomas, November 2016 

“The Current State of Research in Liturgical Music in the Philippines During the Spanish and American Colonial Periods,” Cebu Heritage Circle Symposium, Cebu Archdiocesan Museum, November 2016 

“Liturgical Music and Music Education During the Spanish Colonial Era,” Symposium of Music Education Students, Negros Oriental State University, October 2016 

“When Your Research Field Becomes a Disaster Area: Facing Hazards as an Historical Musicologist in Post-Earthquake Bohol, Philippines,” Natures 2016 (8^thAnnual Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference), La Sierra University, February 2016 

“’…[T]his mistaken idea threatens to gain general currency.’ The debate over the ‘Bach trumpet’ in the English musical press during the late-nineteenth century Baroque revivals,” American Musicological Society 81^stAnnual Meeting, Louisville, November 2015 

“Inverting the Story: Magellan’s Specter and Popular Resistance through Parody in Filipino Comic Novelty Songs,” American Musicological Society Pacific Southwest Chapter Meeting, University of California, Riverside, October 2015 

“Civilization at the Point of the Cornet: The Philippine Constabulary Band and the Display of the Sociocultural Evolutionary Continuum at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair,” Music of the Americas: Writing Histories, Connecting Sites, Cornell University, September 2015 

“Liturgical and Devotional Music in the Philippines under Spanish Influence: Sources, Locations, and Research Prospects,” 9^thBiennial Convention of Church Cultural Heritage Workers, Sorsogon City, Philippines, June 2015  

“The Late Medieval Roots of Spanish Canto Figurado,” American Musicological Society Pacific Southwest Chapter Meeting, Chapman University, October 2013  

“Reconstructing and Performing Philippine Liturgical Music in the Context of the Greater Iberian Colonial Tradition,” 8^thBiennial Convention of Church Cultural Heritage Workers, José Rizal State University, Dapitan City, Philippines, May 2013  

“Inverted Stories: Historical Parody in Filipino Novelty Songs and the Specter of Magellan,” Wed@Noon Ethnomusicology Research Papers, University of California, Riverside, April 2013

“International Repertories, Locally Interpreted: Variants and Local Performance Practices in Mass Settings in the Spanish Colonial Philippines,” American Musicological Society 78^thAnnual Meeting, New Orleans, November 2012 

“International Repertories, Locally Interpreted: Variants and Local Performance Practices in Mass Settings in the Spanish Colonial Philippines,” American Musicological Society Pacific Southwest Chapter Meeting, California State University, Northridge, February 2012 

“Is it Filipino Music? Philippine-ness in Spanish-era Roman Catholic Liturgy,” Society for Ethnomusicology 54^thAnnual Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico, November 2009 

“Musicology in the Philippines: Sources and Invented Traditions,” American Musicological Society Pacific Southwest Chapter Meeting, Mt. St. Antonio College, September 2009 

“Performance Practice and Authenticity in Philippine Musicology: First Impressions,” 6th