Date/Time
Date(s) - 26 Feb 2015
4:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location
Woolworth Center
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Princeton Musicology Colloquium on Thursday, February 26 at 4:30 pm in Woolworth 102, with Susan Boynton, Professor of Music, Columbia University, presenting Music at the Intersection of Liturgy and History in the Cluniac Collection Paris, BnF lat. 17716.
A reception will follow.
This colloquium is co-sponsored by the Council of the Humanities, the Department of Religion, and the Program in Medieval Studies.
Susan Boynton’s research interests include liturgy and music in medieval Western monasticism, particularly in the abbey of Cluny; manuscript studies; music in the Iberian peninsula; and music and childhood. Boynton has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy in Rome, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She has published six books. The first, Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125 (2006), won the Lewis Lockwood Award of the American Musicological Society. Her second monograph, Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain (2011), won the Society’s Robert M. Stevenson Award. She serves on the Board of Directors of the AMS.