dr melanie marshall
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My teaching is focused on music in early modern Europe, and more specifically on vocal music written or performed in early modern Italy, and on issues of gender, sexuality and eroticism in music. As with my research, I am interested in the cultural significance of music at the time in which it circulates.

postgraduate

I am interested in supervising research pertaining to early modern Italy, and/or to gender, sexuality and eroticism in music. My current research student, Serena Standley, works on Mario Bevilacqua’s music patronage.

In addition to teaching on the MA in Music and Cultural History, I contribute to a College-wide course, PATHS (Postgraduate Training in the Arts, Humanities, Commerce and Social Sciences), to the MA in Women’s Studies, and I co-organize the music research seminars which all research postgraduates are obliged to attend. Take a look at sample past schedules for spring 2007 and spring 2008.

undergraduate

More information about these courses is available from my departmental teaching pages (Infobase password required).

  • Early Music Ensemble (performance coaching open to all years)
  • Editing Early Music (special interest option open to all years)
  • Gender in Early Modern Music, 1500-1800 (third and fourth year undergraduate seminars)
  • Music and Ideas: Making Monteverdi’s Vespers (first year undergraduate lecture course)
  • Music in the Service of Power (second year undergraduate lecture course)
  • Performance Studies (first year undergraduate lecture course)
  • Renaissance Vocal Ensemble (performance coaching open to all years)
  • Virgins, Whores or Musicians? Women and Music Across Cultures (third year undergraduate lecture course)

I have supervised student-directed editing projects (on Mathias Herman Werrecore’s La Bataglia Taliana and on motets by Barbara Strozzi), undergraduate recitals of 17th and 18th century vocal and instrumental music, and undergraduate dissertations on representations of gender in Victorian music hall, women in 1980s British punk, Farinelli: Il Castrato, and Charles Ives’s gendered rhetoric.