M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet

Office Hours:

By appointment.

Education

• Musicology, University of Chicago,, 1982
• Musicology, University of Chicago,, 1972
• Honours Music, University of Toronto,, 1970

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Benjamin Franklin Research Grants [for a project entitled "Queen Marie Leczinska as Patron of Music: Opera and Chamber Music at the Court of Louis XV"], American Philosophical Society, summers 2002 and 2003
• Fellowship for University Teachers [for a project entitled "Rameau and the Changing Nature of the Tragédie en Musique: the Case of Dardanus"], National Endowment for the Humanities, 1996
• Honorable Mention for the Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize for the most significant contribution to textual scholarship during the past two years [1993 and 1994], Society for Textual Scholarship, 1995
• Grant [for work on a volume of iconography concerning French grand opéra, particularly of Rossini's Guillaume Tell], Fondazione Rossini, Pesaro, Italy, 1993-94
• Summer Stipend [for research on the repertory of the Opéra during the Reign of Terror, 1793-94], National Endowment for the Humanities, 1989
• Grant [for work on a critical edition of Rossini's Guillaume Tell], Fondazione Rossini, Pesaro, Italy, 1986-87
• Grant [for work on the critical edition of Rossini's Guillaume Tell], American Philosophical Society, 1986
• Grant-in-Aid [for research on the performance history of Rossini's Guillaume Tell], American Council of Learned Societies, 1986
• Articles Award "for the best essay on an eighteenth-century subject published in a scholarly journal during the past academic year [1983-84]", Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1985
• Fellowship for Recent Ph.D. Recipients [for research on the Opéra-Comique during the French Revolution], American Council of Learned Societies, 1984
• Numerous research and travel grants, Wilfrid Laurier University, Duke University, 1980-

Selected Professional Work:

    Books

•  Etienne Nicolas Méhul and Opera: Source and Archival Studies of Lyric Theatre during the French Revolution, Consulate and Empire.  2 volumes, Etudes sur l'Opéra français du XIXe Siècle, 4 Heilbronn: Musik-Edition Lucie Galland, 1999. [xxviii + 912 pp.], 1999 .
• with the [editorial] help of Mauro Bucarelli. Guillaume Tell di Gioachino Rossini: Fonti Iconografiche.  Pesaro: Fondazione Rossini, 1996. [xxvi, 200 pp. (in folio), 16 separate colour plates (also in folio)], 1996 .
•  Guillaume Tell, opéra en quatre actes di Victor Joseph Etienne de Jouy e Hippolyte Louis Florent Bis, musica di Gioachino Rossini, prima rappresentazione: Parigi - Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique, 3 agosto 1829: Commento critico [e testi].  Edizione Critica delle Opera di Gioachino Rossini, sezione prima - opere teatrali, 39, volumes 5-6 Pesaro: Fondazione Rossini, 1992 [recte 1994]. [253, 324 pp.], 1992, recte 1994 . (These two volumes complement the critical edition cited below. The Society for Textual Scholarship awarded the introduction to vol. 5 Honorable Mention for the Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize for the most significant contribution to textual scholarship during the past two years (1993 and 1994); they cited in particular the methodology developed in handling sources in French opera. For the monograph-length historical study of this opera see under vol. 1 of the score)

•  Platée.  Opera Omnia de Jean-Philippe Rameau, Série IV, vol. 10 Paris: Société Jean-Philippe Rameau, forthcoming--2004, forthcoming--2004 . (score in proof)
•  Guillaume Tell, opéra en quatre actes di Victor Joseph Etienne de Jouy e Hippolyte Louis Florent Bis, musica di Gioachino Rossini, prima rappresentazione: Parigi - Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique, 3 agosto 1829.  Edizione Critica delle Opera di Gioachino Rossini, sezione prima - opere teatrali, 39, 4 volumes in folio Pesaro: Fondazione Rossini, 1992 [recte 1994]. [Vol. 1, i-lxxvii [a monograph-length historical introduction], 1-530; vol. 2, i-viii, 531-854; vol. 3, i-viii, 855-1483; vol. 4, i-iii, 1485-2050], 1992 [recte 1994] . (For the critical commentary, see above under books)