Professor Katharine Ellis FBA

The cultural history of music in France during the long nineteenth century: social and ideological factors influencing composition, performance, education and audience experience; music criticism; music in fiction; women's history
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2013
Subjects
Music

Current post

1684 Professor of Music, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Bristol Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music

What is musicology?

5 May 2020 Professor Katharine Ellis FBA

Professor Katharine Ellis FBA explains the academic study of musicology and its applications in everyday life.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Tina K. Ramnarine FBA

Anthropology of music; global and interdisciplinary perspectives on musical performance; music in colonial histories and postcolonial creativities; arts responses to contemporary global challenges

Tina K. Ramnarine FBA

Professor Svetlana Alpers FBA

Painting and its cultural circumstances in Europe, 1500 to the present; writing about and critical attitudes to looking at art; the practice and uses of photography

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Mr Timothy Clark FBA

Pictorial arts in early modern Japan; Katsushika Hokusai

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