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medieval studies, musicology, Latin song, refrain, hagiography
United States

Biography

Mary Channen Caldwell’s research on music in Europe ca. 1000-1600 engages with the complementary disciplines of historical musicology and medieval studies and is driven by interests in the cultural, ritual, textual, and material aspects of music and its production, reception, and transmission. Across her research and teaching, Caldwell employs methodologies that recognize the importance of notes on the page (incomplete as they are in premodern sources) while seeing these abstract reflections of music as part of complex systems of cultural meaning and history. While music is always at the core, her writing and teaching connect with a range of interrelated disciplines, including manuscript studies, gender studies, literary theory, theology and exegesis, liturgiology and hagiography, dance and movement studies, and theories of time and temporality. Published and forthcoming articles on a range of topics related to these interests appear in Early Music History, Plainsong & Medieval Music, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, the Journal of Musicology, Revue de musicologie, Music & Letters, and Speculum, as well as in edited volumes.

Activities

Employment (5)

University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

2023-07-01 to present | Associate Professor of Music (Music)
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University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

2015-07 to 2023-06-30 | Assistant Professor (Music)
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Wichita State University: Wichita, Kansas, US

2014-08 to 2015-05 | Assistant Professor of Music (School of Music)
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University of Texas, Austin: Austin, Texas, US

2014-01 to 2014-05 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology (Butler School of Music)
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Williams College: Williamstown, MA, US

2013-09 to 2013-12 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Music (Music)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Chicago: Chicago, Illinois, US

2006-09 to 2013-06 | PhD (Music)
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Queen's University: Kingston, ON, CA

2002-09 to 2006-06 | Undergraduate Student (Music)
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Professional activities (2)

Medieval Academy of America: MA, MA, US

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American Musicological Society: NY, NY, US

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Works (21)

St Nicholas and the Singing of Liturgical Versicles

Epitome musical
2024-01 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9782503614861
Part of ISBN: 9782503614878
Part of ISSN: 2565-8166
Part of ISSN: 2565-9510
Contributors: Mary Channen Caldwell
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Mary Channen Caldwell

Against the Dangers of the Night: The Compline Versicle 'Custodi nos domine' and its Tropes in Medieval France

Journal of the Alamire Foundation
2023-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2032-5371
Part of ISSN: 2507-0320
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Mary Channen Caldwell

'To his beloved friends…’: The epistolary art of song in medieval France

Textus & Musica
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Mary Channen Caldwell
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Mary Channen Caldwell

'I have trodden the winepress alone'

Revue de musicologie
2022-06 | Journal article
Part of ISBN: 978-2-85357-275-0
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Mary Channen Caldwell

Conductus, Sequence, Refrain

Journal of Musicology
2022-04-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0277-9269
Part of ISSN: 1533-8347
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Mary Channen Caldwell

Review of Karl Kügle, Sounding the Past: Music as History and Memory.

Revue de Musicologie
2021 | Book review
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Mary Channen Caldwell

Ringleaders of Redemption: How Medieval Dance Became Sacred. By Kathryn Dickason. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xvii + 369 pp. $99.00 cloth.

Church History
2021-12 | Book review
Part of ISSN: 0009-6407
Part of ISSN: 1755-2613
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Mary Channen Caldwell

Singing Cato: Poetic Grammar and Moral Citation in Medieval Latin Song

Music and Letters
2021-09-16 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0027-4224
Part of ISSN: 1477-4631
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Mary Channen Caldwell

Troping Time: Refrain Interpolation in Sacred Latin Song, ca. 1140–1853

Journal of the American Musicological Society
2021-04-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0003-0139
Part of ISSN: 1547-3848
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Mary Channen Caldwell

Texting Vocality: Musical and Material Poetics of the Voice in Medieval Latin Song

Ars Antiqua: Music and Culture in Europe, c. 1150-c. 1330
2020 | Book chapter
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Mary Channen Caldwell

Litanic Songs for the Virgin: Rhetoric, Repetition, and Marian Refrains in Medieval Latin Song

The Litany in Arts and Cultures
2020-01 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9782503586700
Part of ISBN: 9782503586717
Part of ISSN: 2294-3617
Part of ISSN: 2566-0160
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Mary Channen Caldwell

A Critical Companion to Medieval Motets. Jared C. Hartt, ed. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2018. xx + 400 pp. $99.

Renaissance Quarterly
2019 | Book review
Part of ISSN: 0034-4338
Part of ISSN: 1935-0236
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Mary Channen Caldwell

Cueing Refrains in the Medieval Conductus

Journal of the Royal Musical Association
2018 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85054876700

Part of ISBN:

02690403

Contributors: Caldwell, M.C.
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Mary Channen Caldwell via Scopus - Elsevier

18.10.06, Bradley and Desmond (eds.), The Montpellier Codex

The Medieval Review
2018-10-06 | Book review
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Mary Channen Caldwell

Pax Gallie: The songs of tours 927

The Jeu d'Adam: MS Tours 927 and the Provenance of the Play
2017 | Book chapter
EID:

2-s2.0-85061754193

Contributors: Caldwell, M.C.
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Mary Channen Caldwell via Scopus - Elsevier

A medieval patchwork song: Poetry, prayer and music in a thirteenth-century conductus

Plainsong and Medieval Music
2016 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84992593095

Part of ISBN:

09611371

Contributors: Caldwell, M.C.
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Mary Channen Caldwell via Scopus - Elsevier

'Flower of the lily': Late-medieval religious and heraldic symbolism in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms Français 146

Early Music History
2014 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84906854317

Part of ISBN:

14740559 02611279

Contributors: Caldwell, M.C.
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Mary Channen Caldwell via Scopus - Elsevier

Music in the Medieval West, by Margot Fassler

College Music Symposium
2014 | Book review
Part of ISSN: 2330-2011
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Mary Channen Caldwell

Dance

Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets
2014-01-13 | Dataset
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Mary Channen Caldwell

'The Place of Dance in Human Life': Perspectives on the Fieldwork and Dance Notation of Gertrude P. Kurath

2008 | Journal article
OTHER-ID:

6682351

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Mary Channen Caldwell via MLA International Bibliography

Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song

Cambridge University Press
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