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I originally sent this to the old address. apologies...........
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From: "Leah" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Italian Studies" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 8:32 PM
Subject: NEW MEMBER Leah Stuttard
> I am a postgraduate music student at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in
> Basel, Switzerland currently holding a Leverhulme Study Abroad Studentship
> (alas, soon to expire......). I am studying both harpsichord and medieval
> harp and a large focus of my work here, as with any other music
> conservatoire, is on practical music making. However, I come from a
> musicological background at the University of Manchester and, unusually,
> Schola also has a tradition of strongly research-based teaching,
encouraging
> all its students to perform in an informed way using the resources of
> contemporary treatises, and original manuscripts or editions. Basel is
> particularly well stocked in these resources thanks to the presence of
both
> Schola and the University of Basel's Musicological Institute.
>
> Although not an Italian scholar, my chief research interest is in music of
> the trecento. Currently, I find myself increasingly concerned with
> understanding the Italian texts and placing them in context with the help
of
> Nicoletta Gossen, lic. phil., teacher in the medieval department, a
romance
> language specialist whose chief interest is also in music and texts of the
> middle ages. This naturally entails familiarising myself with Petrarch,
> Dante and Boccaccio who formed the basic triumvirate literary framework
> which the poet/composers of the trecento were clearly aware of and
> influenced by. The medieval penchant for quotations, justifications
through
> auctoritates and elitist games extends throughout the musical field. For
> this reason I aim to pursue interdisciplinary studies, enabling some sense
> to be made out of complex and otherwise neglected repertoire.
>
> hope that wasn't too long!
> yours
> Leah
>
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