My primary research area is in the early history of music notation and the relationship between orality, performance, and the written record. I have worked with early medieval chant repertories from southern Italy (the “Beneventan” chant) and with early non-pitch-readable notation from Laon (France).
keywords
Gregorian Chant, Beneventan Chant, Popular Song, Medieval Music, Music Notation
Teaching
courses taught
HUMN 1004 - Sound and Meaning
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Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
This course examines how music creates meaning. Topics include: How ancient and modern writers conceive of the effects of music on its listeners; how the meanings of canonic texts are transformed in contemporary digital culture; how musical works are established though music writing and sound recording; and how music is used to voice identity. Musical examples are drawn primarily from historical repertories of western art music with comparative perspectives from more recent popular and recorded music.
HUMN 1220 - Introduction to Humanities: Art and Music 2
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Fall 2023
Examines the major artistic and musical works in the Western tradition from the 17th century to 21st-century post-modernism in their larger historical, interdisciplinary, and theoretical ("aesthetic") contexts. May be taken separately from HUMN 1210.
HUMN 3092 - Studies in Humanities
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Spring 2024 / Spring 2025
Students should check with the department for specific semester offerings. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours, provided the specific offerings vary.
HUMN 4092 - Advanced Studies in the Humanities
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Spring 2024
Students should check with the department for specific semester offerings. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours, provided the specific offerings vary.
