Anna Maria Busse Berger
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Anna Maria Busse Berger is professor of music history at University of California, Davis. She is a scholar of Medieval and Renaissance History and Theory and is the former chair of the UC Davis music departmenthttp://music.ucdavis.edu/.
's Alfred Einstein Award for best article by a young scholar. In 1992-93 she was a fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence. In 1997-98 she was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2001-02 she was a fellow at the National Endowment for Humanities, the Stanford Humanities Center. Busse Berger was the Lehman Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti in 2005-06. Her book Medieval Music and the Art of Memory appeared in June 2005 and was awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and the Wallace Berry Award from the Society of Music Theory for 2006..
, but also relates them to other measuring systems of the period, in particular the Roman system of fractions. Her book on Medieval Music and the Art of Memory is the first detailed study of music and memory in the Middle Ages. It shows that orality and literacy interacted throughout the period and fundamentally transforms our notion of how musical texts were created. She has also demonstrated how our notions of medieval music have been taken over more or less unquestionably from one of the founding fathers of musicology, the German scholar Friedrich Ludwig.
Awards
Berger was the 1991 recipient of the American Musicological SocietyAmerican Musicological Society
The American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association and, more directly,...
's Alfred Einstein Award for best article by a young scholar. In 1992-93 she was a fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence. In 1997-98 she was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2001-02 she was a fellow at the National Endowment for Humanities, the Stanford Humanities Center. Busse Berger was the Lehman Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti in 2005-06. Her book Medieval Music and the Art of Memory appeared in June 2005 and was awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and the Wallace Berry Award from the Society of Music Theory for 2006..
Author
She has done important work on medieval music notation, music and mathematics, the art of memory, and historiography. In her first book, she not only explains the meaning of all signs encountered in mensural notationMensural notation
Mensural notation is the musical notation system which was used in European music from the later part of the 13th century until about 1600."Mensural" refers to the ability of this system to notate complex rhythms with great exactness and flexibility...
, but also relates them to other measuring systems of the period, in particular the Roman system of fractions. Her book on Medieval Music and the Art of Memory is the first detailed study of music and memory in the Middle Ages. It shows that orality and literacy interacted throughout the period and fundamentally transforms our notion of how musical texts were created. She has also demonstrated how our notions of medieval music have been taken over more or less unquestionably from one of the founding fathers of musicology, the German scholar Friedrich Ludwig.
External links
- American Musicological Society - 1991
- http://music.ucdavis.edu/people/anna-maria-busse-berger
- http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Music/MusicTheoryAnalysisComposition/?view=usa&ci=0198162308
- http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10008.html
- Anna Maria Busse Berger - Biography and Select Bibliography