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Boynton, Susan

Name: 
Susan Boynton
Professor, Historical Musicology
Administrative Roles: 
Department Chair (2014-17)
Contact Information
Office Address: 
621B Dodge Hall
Email Address: 
slb184@columbia.edu
Susan Boynton joined the Columbia faculty in 2000. Her research interests include liturgy and music in medieval Western monasticism, particularly the abbey of Cluny; manuscript studies; music in the Iberian peninsula; and music and childhood.  Boynton has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy in Rome, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She has published six books. The first, Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125 (2006), won the Lewis Lockwood Award of the American Musicological Society. Her second monograph, Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain (2011), won the Society's Robert M. Stevenson Award. Prof. Boynton coedited (with Diane Reilly) The Practice of the BIble in the Middle Ages (2011) and Resounding Images: Medieval Intersections of Art, Music, and Sound (2015). Other coedited volumes include From Dead of Night to End of Day (2005)Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth (2006) and Young Choristers, 650-1700 (2008).
 
Professor Boynton chairs the Columbia University Seminar on Medieval Studies, and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Musicological Society. With Isabelle Cochelin, she is general editor of the interdisciplinary series Disciplina Monastica: Studies on Medieval Monastic Life/Etudes sur la vie monastique au moyen age (Brepols Publishers). She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies and Marginalia.
My Columbia Courses
My Columbia Courses: 

History of Western Music: Middle Ages-Baroque (MUSI V3128)

Course Information

Course Title: 
History of Western Music: Middle Ages-Baroque
CU Directory Course Number: 
MUSI V3128
Points/Credits: 
3

Fall 2014
Music V3128
HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC: MIDDLE AGES-BAROQUE
Section 001
Call Number: 28382 Points: 3 
Day/Time: TR 2:40pm-3:55pm
Location: To be announced
Notes: MUSIC MAJORS/CONCE PRIORITY
Instructor: Susan Boynton  (bio)

Pre- or co requisite:V2318-V2319. Topics in Western music from Antiquity through Bach and Handel, focusing on the development of musical style and thought, and analysis of selected works.

 

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