Recent Publications

2009  Fiori musicali: Liber amicorum Alexander Silbiger. Editor of Festschrift volume; writer of essay “ ‘Sotto la disciplina del Signor Cavalli’—Vocal Music by Strozzi and Bembo.” Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, in progress.

2007 “Bach-Rezeption und Lutherischer Choral in der Musik von Fanny Hensel und Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy,” 255-77 in „Zu groß, zu unerreichbar“ Bach-Rezeption im Zeitalter Mendelssohns und Schumanns. Anselm Hartinger, Christoph Wolff, and Peter Wollny, eds. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 2007.

2006  Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
*Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography, ASCAP; Honorable Mentions, Pauline Alderman Award, International Alliance for Women in Music
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2006 Dictionnaire des femmes de l’Ancienne France, s.v. “Antonia Bembo.” Published by the Société Internationale pour l’Étude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime, 2006. Electronic article at http://www.siefar.org/DictionnaireSIEFAR/SFBembo.html

2004 Liner Notes Writer and Performer, Baroque Flute, The Seven Psalms of David, Volume 1, CD, La Donna Musicale (Boston), 2004.

2004 Liner Notes, La Vendetta, Bizzarrie Armoniche, CD, ORF (Vienna), 2004.

2004 “Le relazioni armoniose,” Amadeus: Il mensile della grande musica 16 (June 2004): 27-29.

2003 Program Notes, “Fanny Hensel: An Incomparable Musician,” Concert, Wellesley College, March 2003.

2001 “Obscure Musicians: Mademoiselle de Saint Olon,” Newsletter of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (Fall 2001): 15-16.

2001  “The Voice of the Virgin: Representations of Mary in Seventeenth-Century Italian Song,” pp. 139-141 in Divine Mirrors: The Virgin Mary in the Visual Arts, Melissa R. Katz and Robert A. Orsi, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

2001 "Baroque Women: Elisabeth-Sophie Chéron," Goldberg Early Music Magazine 13 (forthcoming).

2000 "Antonia Bembo," co-authored with Marinella Laini, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Second Edition. Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell, eds. London: Macmillan.

2000 Review. "Hildegard von Bingen, Lieder, Faksimile Riesenkodex (Hs. 2)," Speculum 75/2: 476-478.

2000 "The Virgin's Voice: Representations of Mary in Seventeenth-Century Italian Song," pp. 135-162 in Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period. Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh, eds. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

2000 "Baroque Women 9: Leonora Duarte," Goldberg Early Music Magazine 11: 96-99.

1999 Critical Performing Edition. Antonia Bembo, Per il Natale. Fayetteville, AR: Clar-Nan.

Audio Clip: Per il Natale, "In braccio di Maria," a cantata spirituale from Produzioni armoniche (c. 1697-1701). Wellesley College Vespers, 1999; Brooke Bryant '03, soprano; Lia Shimada '00, harpsichord; Ann Gries, viola da gamba; and Debbie Kohn '00 and Michelle Whang '02, flutes.

1999 "Baroque Women 7: Brigida Bianchi," Goldberg Early Music Magazine 9: 106-109.

1999 "Baroque Women 6: Sophie-Elisabeth von Braunschweig und Lüneburg," Goldberg Early Music Magazine 8: 106-109.

1999 "Baroque Women 5: Antonia Bembo," Goldberg Early Music Magazine 6: 110-113.

1998 Translation from the French. Sophie Roughol, "Monteverdi: L'Orfeo," Goldberg Early Music Magazine 4: 34-45.

1998 Review. Stewart Carter, ed. A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997. Historic Brass Society Journal 10: 168-172.

1996 Introduction and Three Edited Works from Produzioni armoniche. "Antonia Bembo," pp. 201-216 in Women Composers: Music Through the Ages, volume 2, Martha Furman Schleifer and Sylvia Glickman, eds. New York: G.K. Hall.

1995 "Quantz's Unegal: Implications for the Performance of 18th-Century Music," Early Music 23: 54-62.

1995 "In Honour of the Duchess of Burgundy: Antonia Bembo's Compositions for Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, c. 1697-1707," Cahiers de l'I.R.H.M.E.S. 3: 45-89.

1994 "Antonia Bembo," co-authored with Marinella Laini, pp. 56-57 in The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel, eds. London: Macmillan.

1993 Conference Report. "Third Festival of Women Composers and Feminist Theory and Music II: A Continuing Dialogue," 17th Century Music (3/1): 3-5.

1991 "Inequality in Quantz's Solfeggi," Traverso 3: 1-2. Reprint, pp. 41-42 in Traverso: The First Ten Years, Ardal Powell, ed. Hudson, NY: Folkers and Powell, 1999.

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings, Lectures, Talks, Colloquia

2007 “Buti at the French Court: Two Settings of the Libretto for L’Ercole amante,” International Congress on Francesco Buti, University of Parma, Italy, December
                                   
2007 “Passacaglia and Chaconne in the Guitar Music of Francesco Corbetta,” Congress of the International Musicological Society, University of Zürich, Switzerland, July

2007 “Women Composers: From Hildegard of Bingen to Joni Mitchell,” Wellesley College Alumnae Lecture, June

2007 “Female Composers Past to Present,” Tau Zeta Epsilon Society House, Wellesley College, March

2007 “Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo,” Wellesley Clubs of Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona, March

2007 Moderator, Pre-Concert Talk, Kristian Bezuidenhout and Matthias Maute, Boston Early Music Festival, Paine Hall, Harvard University, January

2006 “Antonia Bembo’s L’Ercole amante,” Opera Seminar, Humanities Center at Harvard, Barker Center, November

2006 Lecture-Demonstration of the Biography and Music of Antonia Bembo: Aria “Habbi pietà di me” in which I performed as vocalist, accompanied by Olav Chris Henriksen, baroque guitar; Wellesley Free Library, November

2006  “ ‘Sotto la disciplina del Signor Cavalli’: Vocal Music by Strozzi and Bembo,” Twelfth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, University of Warsaw, July 28, 2006; presented in a revised version at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Los Angeles, CA, November

2006 “Mapping the Trajectory of a Seventeenth-Century Guitarist,” Wellesley College Alumnae Lecture, June 1

2006 “Francesco Corbetta: Musician, Magician…Spy?,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, University of Toronto, April

2006    “A Venetian in Paris: Tracing the Life of Antonia Bembo (c. 1640-c. 1720),” Wellesley Club of Los Angeles, January 22, 2006, and USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, January

2005 “Bach Reception and the Lutheran Chorale in the Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn,” Leipzig, Zu groß, zu unerreichbar“ Bach-Rezeption im Zeitalter Mendelssohns und Schumanns. Internationales Kolloquium Leipzig, November; presented in a revised version at the International Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, November

2005 “A Bicentennial Tribute to Composer Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel,” Wellesley College Alumnae Lecture, June
           
2005 “Bembo’s Oblations for Louis XIV: Rebellion, Longing, and Penitence,” Meeting of the Northeast Chapter of the American Musicological Society,” College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, April 9, 2005

2005    “A Biographical Journey: Antonia Bembo,” Lecture presented at the Wellesley in Westchester Club, Scarsdale, NY, March 6, 2005, and at the Musical Biography Seminar of the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, March

2005  Moderator, “Follow the Lieder,” with Jan Kobow and Kristian Bezuidenhout preceding their concert with the Boston Early Music Festival, Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, MA; February

2004  “Vivaldi’s Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons), Wellesley Club of New Haven, CT, and Wellesley Free Library; April
           
2003 “Festive Baroque Music in Venice, Paris, and London,” Wellesley Club of Miami, FL, March

2001 Pre-concert lectures, "The Production of Music at the Venetian ospedali," Handel and Haydn Society, Vivaldi's Gloria, April

2001 Pre-concert lectures, "A Tribute to Mozart, Haydn, and Hogwood," Handel and Haydn Society, Final Concert of Christopher Hogwood with H&H, April

2000 Pre-concert lectures, "Bach, Mendelssohn, and the Oratorio Tradition," Handel and Haydn Society, Mendelssohn's Elijah, October

2000 Pre-concert lecture, "Vivaldi's Le quattro stagioni as ideal program music," Handel and Haydn Society, Vivaldi's Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons), April.

2000 "The Portrayal of Jesus in the Cantatas of J. S. Bach," Talk to present to Religion 211. Jesus of Nazareth (Edward Hobbs), October

2000 "Teaching Collaboratively," Learning and Teaching Center Panel Presentation, with Elkins, Merry, Metaxas, and Ribner, April

2000 "Sapho and the Lyre: Women as Composers, Patrons, and Performers in Louis XIV's France," The Ninth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, July

2000 "Musical Interpretations of Lyricism," Talk to present to Comparative Literature Seminar 330 (Alison Hickey), Fall

1999 "Yom Kippur: A 20-Year Anniversary," Hillel, October

1999 "Twelfth-Century Music for Convent, Court, and Cathedral," Talk presented to Art 203. Cathedrals and Castles of the High Middle Ages (Peter Fergusson), March

1999 "Boundary Work: Demarcating the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Across the Disciplines," Panel for Medieval/Renaissance Studies, with Armstrong, Harris, and Lynch, March

1999 "A la gloire du Roi Soleil! Music by Lully, La Guerre, and Bembo," Talk presented to French 224. Versailles and the Age of Louis XIV (Stephen Bold), April

1999 " 'Desperately Seeking Antonia'&emdash;An Archival Journey Spanning the 1990s," Phi Sigma Lecture Society, Professors and Their Passions Series, October

1998 Pre-concert lecture, "How Virtue was Regained," Sequentia, Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo virtutum, Church of the Advent, Boston, MA, November

1998 "Lament in the Italian seicento: From Monteverdi to Antonia Bembo," Talk presented to Modern Greek 117. Graduate Seminar on the Ritual Lament, Harvard University (Margaret Alexiou), December

1998 "A Tender Tune for El Niño: First-Person Narratives of the Virgin Mary in Seventeenth-Century Italian Song," The Eighth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, University of Exeter, U.K., July

1997 "Women Composers of Seventeenth-Century France and Italy," A Lecture-Demonstration presented to The Wellesley College Club of Dallas, Texas, February

1997 "Vanagloria Intento: The Voice of the Virgin Mary in the Music of Henry Purcell and Antonia Bembo," Paper presented in conjunction with a performance of the pieces in question at the Fourth Conference on Feminist Theory and Music, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, June

1997 "Feminism and Music: From Behind Closed Doors," Music and Gender Workgroup, Brandeis University, February

1996 "Strategies in Writing Program Notes and Programming," Guest Lecture for Music 344. Performance Workshop, February

1996 "Desperately Seeking Antonia," New England Music Library Association, Wellesley College, April

1996 "Apollo, Helios, Il Sole: Sun King Imagery in Bembo's Produzioni armoniche (c. 1697)," The Seventh Biennial Conference on Baroque Music; University of Birming-ham, U.K., July [presented in a revised version for the New England Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society, New England Conservatory, October]

1995 Pre-concert lecture, "Baroque Blues by French Women Composers," La Donna Musicale, The Somerville Museum, March

1995 "Courtesan, Nun, or Avventuriera? Choices for Music Students in Seventeenth-Century Italy," Tau Zeta Epsilon House, April

1995 "Cavalli's Legacy: Works by Strozzi and Bembo," the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February [presented in an abbreviated version at the annual meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, Centre College, Danville, KY, April]

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