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Jennifer Bain

Professor, Musicology; Gender and Women's Studies - Cross Appointment

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Email: jennifer.bain@dal.ca
Phone: 902-431-5635
Fax: 902.494.2801
Mailing Address: 
Room 504, HÂþ»­ Arts Centre, 6101 University Avenue PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • 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’s 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.Ìý“The impact of Hildegard of Bingen’s bibliographers and catalogers.â€� InÌýManuscripts, Music, Machaut: Essays in Honor of Lawrence Earp.ÌýEdited by Jared C. Hartt, Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel, and Benjamin L. Albritton. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022, 87–98.
  • J. Bain, editor.ÌýThe Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. DOI:Ìý
  • J. Bain. “Music, Liturgy, and Intertextuality in Hildegard of Bingen’s Chant Repertory.â€�ÌýThe Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen.ÌýEdited by Jennifer Bain. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 209–234.
  • J. Bain and Stephanie Morley, guest co-editors.ÌýIn focus: Material Matters and the Salzinnes Antiphonal. InÌýFlorilegiumÌý24 (2017): 66-146 [issued in 2021].
  • J. Bain and Nancy Yunhwa Rao, guest co-editors.ÌýThe Music of Chen Yi.Ìý±õ²ÔÌýMusic Theory OnlineÌý26.3 (2020).Ìý
  • “Nature, Reason, and Light in Vision — aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen.â€� The Oxford Handbook of Medievalism and Music. Edited by Kirsten Yri and Stephen Meyer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020, 468–483.
  • E. De Luca, J. Bain, I. Behrendt, I. Fujinaga, K. Helsen, A. Ignesti, D. Lacoste, and S. A. Long, “Capturing Early Notations in MEI: The Case of Old Hispanic Neumes.â€� Musiktheorie - Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft 34/3 (2019): 229–249.
  • “History of a Book: Hildegard of Bingen’s ‘Riesencodex’ and World War II.â€� Plainsong and Medieval Music 27/2 (2018): 143–170.
  • “Varied repetition in Hildegard’s sequence for St. Rupert: O Ierusalem aurea civitas.â€� 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, 11–46.
  • I. Behrendt, J. Bain, and K. Helsen. “MEI Kodierung der frühesten Notation in linienlosen Neumen.â€� Kodikologie und Paläographie 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. Köln: Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V, 2017, 281–296.
  • Hildegard of Bingen and Musical Reception: the Modern Revival of a Medieval Composer.ÌýCambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  • “Was Hildegard forgotten?â€�ÌýJournal of Musicological ResearchÌý34/1 (2015), 1-30.Ìý Ìý
  • K. Helsen, J. Bain, I. Fujinaga, A. Hankinson, and D. Lacoste, “Optical Music Recognition and Manuscript Chant Sources,â€�ÌýEarly MusicÌý42/4 (2014), 555-558.Ìý ÌýÌý
  • D. McGrady and J. Bain, eds.ÌýA Companion to Guillaume de Machaut. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2012, 414 pages.
  • J. Bain, guest editor.ÌýJournal of Music TheoryÌý52/1 (2008), 184 pages [issued 2009].
  • “‘Messy Structure?’ Multiple Tonal Centers in the Music of Machaut.â€�ÌýMusic Theory SpectrumÌý30/2 (2008), 195-237.

Recent Awards and honours

Principal Investigator,ÌýSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,ÌýPartnership Grant, 2023–2030, “Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission,â€� $2,495,299

Principal Investigator,ÌýDigital Research Alliance, 2023–2026, “Digital Analysis of Chant Transmissionâ€�

Sheila K. Piercey Award for Performing Arts Educators,ÌýHÂþ»­ University, 2020

Principal Investigator,ÌýSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,ÌýInsight Grant, 2019–2024, “Contextualizing the Music of Hildegard of Bingen,â€� $198,442

Principal Investigator,ÌýSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,ÌýPartnership Development Grant, 2019–2022, “Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission,â€� $199,348

Royal Society of Canada, elected a member of the College of New Artists, Scholars, and Scientists, November 2016

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