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Karen M. Cook, Musicology

Karen M. Cook

My current research explores the relationship between Cristobal de Morales and Palestrina. I am also researching the life of Matteo Fornari da Lucca, a member of the Sistine Chapel Choir in the 1700s and an author of several manuscripts that I am studying. My research in 20th century music explores the concepts of musical borrowing, sampling, and quotation, most notably in scat vocals and hip-hop/rap samples and quotations. My future research will allow me to explore the similarities and differences in the ways that borrowing has been used in the Medieval and Renaissance periods and in the 20th-21st centuries.

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By appointment
Education:

MMusPeabody Conservatory2006
MMusPeabody Conservatory2004
BAGettysburg College1999
BAGettysburg College1999
Specialties:

Musicology
Music Theory
Research Interests: Medieval/Renaissance/Early Baroque Music, 20th Century Popular Music, Jazz

Areas of Interest:

-Music and religion; relationships with liturgical practices
-Music in 15th-, 16th-, and 17th-century Rome; relationships between music and the Papacy
-Music of Medieval, Renaissance, Early Baroque Spain
-Music of rebellion
-Musical borrowing and quotation; tracking patterns of influence
-Early woodwind and brass instruments
-Musical transmission; influences of the media and manners of publicity
-The history of the tritone

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