News and Publicity
New review of my first book (this time in Catalan!) by the kind and generous scholar Dr. Maria Incoronata Colantuono from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Open access here!
Newly published open-access volume on the Benedicamus Domino! Music and Liturgy for the Benedicamus Domino c.800–1650, edited by Catherine A. Bradley, with contributions by numerous scholars on so many aspects of this fascinating liturgical versicle.
My own contribution, “St Nicholas and the Singing of Liturgical Versicles,” is here!
New review of my book! A very generous one by Denis Forasacco at The Medieval Review: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/40070/42255
Q&A: Katz Center fellow Mary Channen Caldwell on Jewish music and musicians in medieval France:
Paris Bibliotheque nationale fonds fr. 844, fol. 175r
A generous review of my book by Dr. Jan Ciglbauer in Music & Letters; open-access! He writes: “…in her book Mary Channen Caldwell has provided many valuable stimuli for the further exploration of European Latin traditions: the necessity of musicological research on text-only collections is beyond doubt, but the attention to sources such as sermons, theoretical texts, juridical documents, and iconography should certainly be inspirational for scholars exploring other song repertories.”
A seasonally appropriate interview in the University of Pennsylvania’s Omnia magazine on St. Nicholas and music: “A Soundtrack for a Saint.” (December 18, 2023)
“Caldwell is working on a book focused on music for and about Saint Nicholas in medieval popular devotional culture, and how this music shows different approaches to veneration through song. “Jolly Old Saint Nicholas,” it turns out, is just the tip of the iceberg.”
I'm very pleased to share what I think might be the first published review of my book, just published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society (vol. 76, no. 1)! It's a kind, thoughtful, and generous review by a kind, thoughtful, and exceedingly generous scholar, Thomas B. Payne.
https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2023.76.1.242
Listen and Repeat
In Omnia: All Things Penn Arts and Sciences
Mary Channen Caldwell, Assistant Professor of Music, brings together over 400 devotional Latin refrain songs from the Middle Ages in her new book, the first to explore the medieval refrain in song outside of vernacular contexts.
Big Ideas for Strange Times
How did people dance in medieval Europe? Watch my video here as part of UPenn’s School of Arts and Science’s Big Ideas for Strange Times series! https://vimeo.com/575070973
Giz Asks
What Was the Earliest Music? Read my answer here! http://dlvr.it/S35F7P
Mary Channen Caldwell awarded a 2021 NEH Summer Stipend
Exploring the sounds of the Middle Ages: Penn Today May 2, 2018
A medieval confluence: Penn Today March 23, 2018
