My musicological work stretches across a primary focus on 13th- and 14th-century song and a secondary area in contemporary—primarily electroacoustic—music. (I often describe myself as being interested in the very old and very new, which often have a strange kinship.) I share core concerns of sonic aspects of text and voice, composers’ processes, and uses of preexistent material in both my scholarship and music-making. I also see my practices as a composer and musicologist as mutually reinforcing, with my scholarship giving me critical lenses and fresh ideas for pieces and my composition offering creative approaches and insight on compositional process to my musicological projects.
Feel free to contact me to read any conference papers or articles currently under review.
Articles:
“Auralizing the Love Triangle: Polyphonic Rondeau Refrains in Renart le nouvel.” Journal of the Royal Musical Association (under review).
“Common Tunes, Varied Songs: IN SECULUM Motets in the Sixth Fascicle of the Montpellier Codex.” Plainsong and Medieval Music (under review).
“Mapping Shared Tunes: Pitch-Based Logic in Late Medieval Refrain Citation.” Music Theory Spectrum (under review).
Book Chapters:
“The Star-eaters: a 2019 Survey of Women and Gender Non-conforming Individuals Using Electronics for Music,” in The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900, ed. Laura Hamer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 213-227. (Co-authored chapter with composer Margaret Schedel.)
Conference Papers:
“Mapping Shared Tunes: A New Database of Intermusical Medieval Refrains,” paper at the 2023 International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, MI (May 2023).
“Unveiling the Lyric Je: Manuscript Curtains in the Adam de la Halle Manuscript,” paper at annual meeting of the American Musicological Society 2022 in New Orleans (Nov 2022).
“Stitch Holes, Threads, and Hidden Subjects: Manuscript Curtains in fr. 25566,” paper at the 50th Medieval and Renaissance International Music Conference in Uppsala, Sweden (July 2022).
“Hit Chansons: the Contratenor as Cover and Clue in Machaut’s Ballades and Rondeaux,” paper at the 48th International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, MI (May 2013).
Book Reviews:
“The Montpellier Codex: the Final Fascicle. Contents, Contexts, Chronologies, ed Catherine A. Bradley and Karen Desmond,” review, Manuscript Studies: a journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, vol. 4 issue 2, fall 2019.
Invited Talks, Panels, and Interviews:
Artist-to-artist talk with Annie Gosfield, American Composers Forum Philadelphia Chapter, online, Feb. 11, 2021
“Electroacoustic Music Tools,” panel at SPLICE Institute 2020, online, June 24, 2020.
Interview on Lexical Tones, the podcast of the ADJective New Music Composers’ Collective, episode 126, March 2020.