J. Peter Burkholder is distinguished professor emeritus of music in musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His research interests include twentieth-century music, Charles Ives, musical borrowing, American music, musical meaning, analysis, and music history pedagogy.
He is the author of Charles Ives: The Ideas Behind the Music and All Made of Tunes: Charles Ivesand the Uses of Musical Borrowing and co-author of A History of Western Music, 9th ed., with Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca, and Norton Anthology of Western Music, 7th ed., with Claude V. Palisca.