Arthur Wenk

During his twenty-year career as a musicologist, Arthur Wenk published books on Claude Debussy (Claude Debussy and the Poets; Claude Debussy and Twentieth-Century Music) and music bibliography (Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music; Musical Resources for the Revised Common Lectionary.)

Later he drew on his experiences as a university professor, church organist, choral conductor and pianist to produce a series of mystery novellas featuring musicologist Axel Crochet as sleuth: The Quarter Note Tales; New Quarter Note Tales: Axel in Quebec; Axel Crochet: Musicologist-at-Large; and Quarter Note Tales #4: An Axel Crochet Trilogy. Other books include A Guide to the Bookstores of Toronto, and Camerata: A Guide to Organizing and Directing Small Choruses.

Since retiring, Dr. Wenk has produced a series of essays including:

• The Matrix of Western Culture: Perspectives on History, the Arts and Ideas.

• A Brief History of Classical Music: A Tale of Time, Tonality and Timbre.

• The Photographer’s Eye: Seeing with a Camera.

• History, the Arts and Ideas: Exploring the Matrix of Western Culture.

• In Search of America: Perspectives on History, Literature, Art, Music and Film.