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

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

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