Boynton, Susan

Full Name: 
Susan Boynton
Position/Title: 
Professor of Historical Musicology
Administrative Roles: 
Chair of Music Humanities, Chair of the Historical Musicology Area Committee, 2012-13
Office Address: 
607 Dodge Hall
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). 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 StudiesWith 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 the American Musicological Society, the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Studies in Iconography, and Marginalia, is one of the book review editors for Speculum.
Degrees: 
BA Music (Yale 1988), MA Medieval Studies (Yale 1990)
Degrees: 
Diplome d'etudes medievales ( Louvain-la-Neuve, 1992)
Degrees: 
MFA Music and Women's Studies (Brandeis, 1996)
Degrees: 
PhD, Musicology (Brandeis, 1997)
Selected Publications: 

Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain (Oxford University Press, 2011)

The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages: Production, Reception, and Performance in Western Christianity, edited with Diane J. Reilly (Columbia University Press, 2011)

Young Choristers, 650-1700, edited with Eric Rice (Boydell and Brewer, 2008)

Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125 (Cornell University Press, 2006)

Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth, edited with Roe-Min Kok (Wesleyan University Press, 2006)

From Dead of Night to End of Day: The Medieval Customs of Cluny, edited with Isabelle Cochelin (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005)

Selected Articles and Book Chapters (for complete list see CV):

“Oral Transmission of Liturgical Practice in the Eleventh-Century Customaries of  Cluny,” in Understanding Monastic Practices of Oral Communication (Western Europe, Tenth-Thirteenth Centuries), ed. Steven Vanderputten, Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), 63-78

“The Bible and the Liturgy,” in The Practice of the Bible in the Western Middle Ages, ed. Susan Boynton and Diane Reilly (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), 10-33

“Writing History with Liturgy,” in Representing History, 900–1300: Art, Music, History, ed. Robert A. Maxwell (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2010), 187-200, 258-62

“A Monastic Death Ritual from the Imperial Abbey of Farfa,” Traditio 64 (2009): 57-84

“Reconsidering the Toledo Codex of the Cantigas de Santa Maria in the Eighteenth Century,” in Quomodo Cantabimus Canticum? Studies in Honor of Edward H. Roesner, ed. Rena Charnin Mueller, John Nadas, David Cannata, and Gabriela Ilnitchi (Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, 2008), 209-22

“Prayer as Liturgical Performance in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastic Psalters,” Speculum 82 (2007): 895-931

"Orality, Literacy, and the Early Notation of the Office Hymns," Journal of the American Musicological Society 56 (2003): 99-167

"A Lost Mozarabic Liturgical Manuscript Rediscovered: New York, Hispanic Society of America, B2916, olim Toledo, Biblioteca Capitular, 33.2," Traditio 57 (2002) 189-219

"Glosses on the Office Hymns in Eleventh-Century Continental Hymnaries," The Journal of Medieval Latin 11 (2001): 1-26

"Women's Performance of the Lyric before 1500," in Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. Ann Marie Rasmussen and Anne Klinck (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), 47-65

“Frammenti medievali nell’Archivio dell’Abbazia di Farfa,” Benedictina 48 (2001): 325-53

“Training for the Liturgy as a Form of Monastic Education,” in Medieval Monastic Education, ed. Carolyn Muessig and George Ferzoco (Leicester, London, New York: Leicester University Press, 2000), 7-20

"Eleventh-Century Continental Hymnaries Containing Latin Glosses," Scriptorium 53 (1999): 200-251

"The Sources and Significance of the Orpheus Myth in 'Musica Enchiriadis' and Regino of Prüm's 'Epistola de harmonica institutione'," Early Music History 18 (1999): 47-74

"Performative Exegesis in the Fleury Interfectio Puerorum," Viator 29 (1998): 39-64

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