Jacqueline Waeber, Associate Professor of Music
Melodrama and related genres, from opera to film; theatrical practices and visual cultures; French musical aesthetics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, music and philosophy of the arts; the 'chanson populaire'.
Office Location: | 105 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 27708 |
Office Phone: | (919) 660-3316 |
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Teaching (Spring 2024):
- MUSIC 256S.01, MUSIC HISTORY II
Synopsis
- Biddle 101, TuTh 04:40 PM-05:55 PM
- MUSIC 790S-1.01, SEM HST OF MUS (TOPICS)
Synopsis
- Biddle 069, W 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
- Office Hours:
- by appointment
- Education:
Ph.D. University of Geneva (Switzerland) 2002
- Specialties:
- Musicology
- Research Interests: Music and philosophy of the arts; Opera studies; French musical culture
Melodrama and related genres, from opera to film; theatrical practices and visual cultures; French musical aesthetics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, music and philosophy of the arts; the 'chanson populaire'.
- Areas of Interest:
- Melodrama, opera, stage and film music;
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, music and philosophy, sound studies
the French 'chanson populaire', 19th-20th centuries
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Waeber, JR, Musique et Geste en France: de Lully à la Révolution, Publikationen der Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft Serie II, vol. 50 (2010), Peter Lang .
- Waeber, JR, L’opéra, fenêtre sur le Réel: The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005) de Stephen et Timothy Quay, in Opéra et Fantastique, edited by Lacombe, H; Picard, T (2010), pp. 351–364-351–364, Presses Universitaires de Rennes .
- Jacqueline Waeber, , Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "unité de mélodie", Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 62 no. 1 (2009), pp. 79-143, University of California Press [doi] [abs].
- Jacqueline Waeber, , Searching for the Plot: Charles-Valentin Alkan's Souvenirs: Trois morceaux dans le genre pathétique, Op. 15, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, vol. 132 no. 1 (2007), pp. 60-114, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi] [abs].
- Waeber, JR, En musique dans le texte. Le mélodrame, de Rousseau à Schoenberg (2006), Van Dieren Editeur, Paris [books] .
- Waeber, JR, "Le Devin de la Foire"? Revaluating the Pantomime in Rousseau’s Devin du village, in Musique et Geste en France: de Lully à la Révolution, Publikationen der Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft Serie II, edited by Waeber, J, vol. 50 (2009), pp. 149-172, Peter Lang [author's comments].