Jennifer Bain
Professor, Musicology; Gender and Women's Studies - Cross Appointment
Email: jennifer.bain@dal.ca
Phone: 902.494.3268
Fax: 902.494.2801
Mailing Address:
- Music and culture
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Guillaume de Machaut
- Chant
- Medieval music
- Historiography
- Digital chant research
Education
- BMus (Wilfrid Laurier University)
- MA (McGill University)
- PhD (Stony Brook University)
Research & creative activity
Professor Bain鈥檚 research interests are wide-ranging, including the secular music of 14th-century poet and composer, Guillaume de Machaut, medieval music theory, digital chant research, the 19th- and 20th-century reception of Hildegard of Bingen, as well as issues surrounding the role of women in the production and composition of music.
Teaching
- Music Theory III ()
- Music Theory IV ()
- Studies in Medieval Music (MUSC )
- Form and Analysis: The Second Viennese School to the Present Day ()
Selected publications
- J. Bain.听鈥淭he impact of Hildegard of Bingen鈥檚 bibliographers and catalogers.鈥 In听Manuscripts, Music, Machaut: Essays in Honor of Lawrence Earp.听Edited by Jared C. Hartt, Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel, and Benjamin L. Albritton. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022, 87鈥98.
- J. Bain, editor.听The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. DOI:听
- J. Bain. 鈥淢usic, Liturgy, and Intertextuality in Hildegard of Bingen鈥檚 Chant Repertory.鈥澨The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen.听Edited by Jennifer Bain. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 209鈥234.
- J. Bain and Stephanie Morley, guest co-editors.听In focus: Material Matters and the Salzinnes Antiphonal. In听Florilegium听24 (2017): 66-146 [issued in 2021].
- J. Bain and Nancy Yunhwa Rao, guest co-editors.听The Music of Chen Yi.听滨苍听Music Theory Online听26.3 (2020).听
- 鈥淣ature, Reason, and Light in Vision 鈥 aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen.鈥 The Oxford Handbook of Medievalism and Music. Edited by Kirsten Yri and Stephen Meyer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020, 468鈥483.
- E. De Luca, J. Bain, I. Behrendt, I. Fujinaga, K. Helsen, A. Ignesti, D. Lacoste, and S. A. Long, 鈥淐apturing Early Notations in MEI: The Case of Old Hispanic Neumes.鈥 Musiktheorie - Zeitschrift f眉r Musikwissenschaft 34/3 (2019): 229鈥249.
- 鈥淗istory of a Book: Hildegard of Bingen鈥檚 鈥楻iesencodex鈥 and World War II.鈥 Plainsong and Medieval Music 27/2 (2018): 143鈥170.
- 鈥淰aried repetition in Hildegard鈥檚 sequence for St. Rupert: O Ierusalem aurea civitas.鈥 Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Secular and Sacred Music to 1900. Edited by Brenda Ravenscroft and Laurel Parsons. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, 11鈥46.
- I. Behrendt, J. Bain, and K. Helsen. 鈥淢EI Kodierung der fr眉hesten Notation in linienlosen Neumen.鈥 Kodikologie und Pal盲ographie im Digitalen Zeitalter / Codicology and Paleography in the Digital Age. Vol. 4. Edited by Hannah Busch, Franz Fischer, and Patrick Sahle, with the cooperation of Philip Hegel and Celiz Krause, Norderstedt 2016. K枚ln: Institut f眉r Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V, 2017, 281鈥296.
- Hildegard of Bingen and Musical Reception: the Modern Revival of a Medieval Composer.听Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- 鈥淲as Hildegard forgotten?鈥澨Journal of Musicological Research听34/1 (2015), 1-30.听 听
- K. Helsen, J. Bain, I. Fujinaga, A. Hankinson, and D. Lacoste, 鈥淥ptical Music Recognition and Manuscript Chant Sources,鈥澨Early Music听42/4 (2014), 555-558.听 听听
- D. McGrady and J. Bain, eds.听A Companion to Guillaume de Machaut. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2012, 414 pages.
- J. Bain, guest editor.听Journal of Music Theory听52/1 (2008), 184 pages [issued 2009].
- 鈥溾楳essy Structure?鈥 Multiple Tonal Centers in the Music of Machaut.鈥澨Music Theory Spectrum听30/2 (2008), 195-237.
Recent Awards and honours
Principal Investigator,听Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,听Partnership Grant, 2023鈥2030, 鈥淒igital Analysis of Chant Transmission,鈥 $2,495,299
Principal Investigator,听Digital Research Alliance, 2023鈥2026, 鈥淒igital Analysis of Chant Transmission鈥
Sheila K. Piercey Award for Performing Arts Educators,听麻豆传媒, 2020
Principal Investigator,听Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,听Insight Grant, 2019鈥2024, 鈥淐ontextualizing the Music of Hildegard of Bingen,鈥 $198,442
Principal Investigator,听Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,听Partnership Development Grant, 2019鈥2022, 鈥淒igital Analysis of Chant Transmission,鈥 $199,348
Royal Society of Canada, elected a member of the College of New Artists, Scholars, and Scientists, November 2016
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