Carolyn Abbate
Author
1955 –
Who is Carolyn Abbate?
Carolyn Abbate is an American musicologist. She is among the world’s foremost musicologists. A practitioner of the field’s traditional methodologies, she challenged their limits, mobilizing literary theory and philosophy to provoke new ways of thinking about music and understanding its experience. From her earliest essays she has questioned familiar approaches to well-known works, reaching beyond their printed scores and composer intentions, to explore the particular, physical impact of the medium upon performer and audience alike. Her research focuses primarily on the operatic repertory of the 19th century, offering creative and innovative approaches to understanding these works critically and historically. Some of her more recent work has addressed topics such as film studies and performance studies more generally.
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- Born
- Nov 20, 1955
New York City - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, Princeton University
( - 1984) - Bachelor of Arts, Yale University
( - 1977)
- PhD, Princeton University
- Lived in
- Massachusetts
(2013 - )
- Massachusetts
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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