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Dr. Philippa Ovenden

 

Vita

  • seit November 2024 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin bei harMo13 – Die 'Harmonik' in drei- und vierstimmigen Motetten des 13. Jahrhunderts. Eine Korpusanalyse (Leiter Prof. Dr. Frank Hentschel) am Musikwissenschaftlichen Institut der Universität zu Köln
  • 2023 bis 2024 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow an der Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto
  • 2022 bis 2023 Jean-François Malle Fellow an I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
  • 2021 bis 2022 (Januar) Lecturer in Music, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 2015 bis 2021 Ph.D. in Music History, Yale University.
  • 2013 bis 2014 M.Mus in Music, King’s College London
  • 2009 bis 2013 B.Mus in Historical Performance, Royal Academy of Music in London
  • 2011 bis 2012 Erasmus, Alte Musik (Blockflöte künstlerische Ausbildung), Universität der Künste, Berlin

Forschungsschwerpunkte 

  • Musik ca. 1200–1450
  • Musiktheorie und -analyse
  • Notationskunde
  • Geschichte der Ideen

Publikationen

Aufsätze

  • ‘Out of the Blue: Preparing Proportions in the Old Hall Manuscript’, Music Theory Online, 29, no. 4 (2023)
  • ‘Guido’s Or voit tout en aventure: The Performer’s Perspective’, The Journal of Musicology, 40, no. 4, 511–549 (2023)
  • ‘Johannes Vetulus de Anagnia’s Platonist Model of Musical Time’, Early Music History, 41, 303–345 (2022)
  • ‘Medieval Music’, in Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online, ed. Samu Niskanen, Routledge (2022)
  • ‘Atoms and Music in Late Medieval Philosophy’, in Atomism in Philosophy: A History from Antiquity to the Present, ed. Ugo Zilioli, 231–55, Bloomsbury (2020)

Rezensionen

  • The End of Ars Nova in Italy, curato da Antonio Calvia, Stefano Campagnolo, Andreas Janke, Maria Sofia Lannutti e John Nádas; Polyphonic Voices, curato da Anna Alberni, Antonio Calvia e Maria Sofia Lannutti—una doppia recensione’ (2024)
  • ‘Poésie et musique à l’âge de l’Ars subtilior: Autor du manuscrit Torino BNU, J.II.9’, edited by Gisèle Clement, Isabelle Fabre, Gilles Polizzi and Fañch Thoraval’, The Medieval Review (2022)
  • ‘Music and the moderni, 1300–1350: The ars nova in Theory and Practice by Karen Desmond’, Journal of Music Theory, 64, no. 2: 293–96 (2020)
  • ‘Who Was Jacobus? Magister Jacobus de Ispania, Author of the Speculum musicae by Margaret Bent’, Early Music 46, no. 3: 523–24 (2018)

Vorträge

2025

  • ‘French Connections in a Fourteenth-Century Italian Miscellany’, Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Universities of Newcastle, Durham and Northumbria (3. Juli)
  • Eisinger, R., X Qiu, D. Ubber, F. Hentschel, ‘An Explorative Approach to Analyse Motets, a Thirteenth-Century Musical Genre’, Summer Service Oriented Computing, Heraklion, Kreta (19. Juni)

2024

  • ‘Musica e filosofia nel Medioevo’, Corso di Formazione Musica nel Medioevo, MEM – Mediaeval Music Bibliographical Bulletin, Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Florenz
  • ‘Symbolism and Memory in Fourteenth-Century Music Theory’, Musicology Forum, University of Southern California, LA
  • ‘Habituating Knowledge in Fourteenth-Century Music Theory and Practice’, Seminar Series, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto

2023

  • ‘Physical, Psychological and Arithmetical Time’, Seminar Series, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto
  • Burman, H. ‘Analyzing Mensural Repertory Using Metric Theory’, Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • ‘Visualising Cognition in Johannes Vetulus de Anagnia’s Liber de musica’, Cultures of Notation in the Early Modern Period, Bibliotheca Hertziana–Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rom 

2022

  • ‘Atomism and Divisibilism in Late-Medieval Music Theory and Practice’, Joint Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS), Society for Music Theory (SMT) and Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), New Orleans
  • ‘Tempo astratto e concreto dal Liber de musica di Johannes Vetulus de Anagnia’, Poesia e Musica - fra Trecento e Quattrocento, Centro di studi sull’Ars Nova italiana del Trecento, Certaldo
  • ‘Notation and Compositional Grammar in a Gloria by Leonel Power’, New Perspectives in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Music Notations, Alamire Foundation, Leuven

Mitgliedschaften

  • Mitgliedschaft in der American Musicological Society
  • Mitgliedschaft in der Royal Musical Association
  • Mitgliedschaft in der Society for Musicology in Ireland
  • Mitgliedschaft in der Società Italiana di Musicologia
  • Mitgliedschaft in der Society for Music Theory