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.

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Professor Elżbieta Witkowska-Zaremba FBA

History of music and music theory focused on Latin texts of the late Middle Ages and early modern era; the reception of the ancient writings on music up to 1600

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Professor Gianmario Borio FBA

20th-century music; history of the theories and concepts of music; compositional process and archival research; music aesthetics and reception theories; music’s political background; audiovisual experience

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Professor Daniel Chua FBA

Music – Beethoven, the history of absolute music, music theory and analysis, exo-musicology, global musicology, and the intersection between music, philosophy and theology

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