Graduate Student, Music
Thesis Title: Verbal Canons and Notational Complexity in Fifteenth-Century Music
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Emma Dillon
Lawrence Bernstein Jesse Rodin |
About
Emily Zazulia’s research focuses on medieval and early modern music, with a particular emphasis on music of the fifteenth century. Her dissertation, entitled “Verbal canons and notational complexity in fifteenth century music,” addresses the relationship between notation and its intellectual and cultural environments, with a particular focus on material culture and the visual appearance of musical notation. She remains active both as a singer and a choral conductor, and she runs a group that sings from original notation.
Before coming to Penn, Emily was an undergraduate at Harvard University, where she received my B.A. in Music 2006. Her undergraduate thesis, “Johannes Puyllois (d. 1478) and his Sacred Music,” received the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize.
In 2011 Emily was a Visiting Instructor at Haverford College. She spent the spring of 2010 as a Reader at Villa I Tatti, Harvard University’s Center for the Study of the Italian Renaissance. In 2010-11 she was a Mellon Graduate Research Fellow with the Penn Humanities Forum. Her work is currently supported by a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship from the American Musicological Society.
