Paul Godwin
Dr. Paul Godwin is Professor of Music and the Coordinator of Composition at Belmont University. Dr. Godwin has been a part of the Belmont faculty since 1973, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in tonal and contemporary theory, alternative analytical techniques, and private composition.
He received a Ph.D. and a Master of Arts in Music Theory from Ohio State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from Arkansas Tech University. Dr. Godwin's teaching experience includes Lewisville and Marianna, AR Public Schools and Ohio State University prior to his appointment to Belmont. He has taught technology for music educators, orchestration, form and analysis, ear training, sixteenth and eighteenth century counterpoint, electronic music, applied clarinet and flute, and directed band and collegium musicum. In 1986, Dr. Godwin took his first sabbatical to study music computer assisted instruction and a Schenker Seminar at the University of Arizona. In 1998, he participated in a faculty exchange at the Hochschule fur Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, Germany to study composition of electronic music with Wilfried Jentzsch. Dr. Godwin's second sabbatical in 1999 was also spent at the Hochschule to focus on electronic music composition in collaboration with Jentzsch.
Dr. Godwin has had publications in Journal of Graduate Music Students at the Ohio State University and The Cassette Musician. He is a member of The College Music Society, Society for Music Theory, Association for Technology in Music Instruction, National Academic Advising Association, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and Kappa Kappa Psi.
In addition to being a composer, Dr. Godwin has been a clarinetist in the Lawton Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony, and Belmont University performances. He is a former choir director and chairman of the music committee at Crievewood United Methodist Church in Nashville,
TN. He is honored as an outstanding educator in Who's Who in American Education and Who's Who Among America's Teachers.
Contact Info: (615) 460-8206 or godwinp@mail.belmont.edu
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