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Sheryl K. Murphy-Manley earned a Bachelor of Music Education and Masters of Music in Conducting from Sam Houston State University. In 1996, she earned her Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Texas at Austin where she taught in the undergraduate music department for four years as an Assistant Instructor and in the Continuing Education Program for ten years as a lecturer. In addition to her choral conducting, she also has a background in instrumental music and has taught studio flute for 15 years. She is a contributor to the newest edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie, and has written three articles (?Alessandro Scarlatti,? ?Giovanni Battista Pergolesi,? and ?Johann Adolf Hasse?) for the Reader?s Guide to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism, edited by MurrayMurphy-Manley, Sheryl is the author of 'Concise And Friendly Guide to Music History ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780759389274 and ISBN 0759389276.
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