Jennifer Bain
Professor, Musicology; Gender and Women's Studies - Cross Appointment
Email: jennifer.bain@dal.ca
Phone: 902-431-5635
Fax: 902.494.2801
Mailing Address:
- 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.� 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.� Musiktheorie - Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft 34/3 (2019): 229–249.
- “History of a Book: Hildegard of Bingen’s ‘Riesencodex’ and World War II.� Plainsong and Medieval Music 27/2 (2018): 143–170.
- “Varied repetition in Hildegard’s sequence for St. Rupert: O Ierusalem aurea civitas.� 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.� 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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