Subject Area: Music Theory
My current research focuses on the social and expressive use of musical schemas in Italian opera. Ongoing research projects include a series of articles on issues of pleasure and enjoyment in the operas of Gioachino Rossini, the analysis of secco recitative, musical form in early two-tempo arias, as well as music and music-making in the nineteenth-century American South.
My current research projects focus on the social and expressive use of musical schemas in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century opera.
Academic Interests
- Historical musicology
- History of Music Theory
- Italian opera
- music analysis
- Music theory
- Schema theory
