Sarah Day-O鈥機onnell
Professor
Office: Zankel Music Center 121
Phone: (518) 580-5343
Email: sdayocon@skidmore.edu
DEGREES:
- Ph.D., Musicology, with Minor in Gender Studies, Cornell University
- B.Mus., Music History and Piano Performance, Oberlin College
RESEARCH INTERESTS
In my research I combine musical analysis with interpretation of literary, visual, and material culture in order to explore how musical activity, especially singing, reflects and shapes broader social concerns 鈥 in particular, about gender and politics. I also examine transcriptions, 鈥渃overs,鈥 recordings, theories of performance, criticism, and listener reception because I鈥檓 interested in how music, through performance, changes meaning across times and cultures.
TEACHING INTERESTS
Music history and historiography; music and culture; late eighteenth-century music
and aesthetics, gender and music; translation studies; music and medicine, faith,
and healing; musical authorship/borrowing/plagiarism/copyright; opera; flamenco; Caribbean
steelband; Japanese taiko drumming; American shape-note singing; music about trains.
PUBLICATIONS
Edited Book
- , co-edited with Caryl Clark (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Articles and Chapters
- The Smart Set (June 2023).
- Review of Richard Kramer. Cherubino鈥檚 Leap: In Search of the Enlightenment Moment.(Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016.) Journal of the American Musicological Society 72/1 (2019): 245-251.
- "Seminar as Schubertiad: Or, a New Journey for Schubert's Winterreise" Accelerate 2 (Fall 2018): 32-35.
- Review of Richard Chesser and David Wyn Jones, eds. Land of Opportunity: Joseph Haydn and Britain. (London: British Library, 2014.) Eighteenth-Century Music 12/2 (2015): 231-233.
- 鈥The Singing Style,鈥 in Danuta Mirka, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014): 238-258.
- 鈥溾赌The Clock Points its Moral to the Heart鈥: Time and Memory in Haydn鈥檚 English Canzonettas,鈥 in Marie-Agnes Dittrich, Marin Eybl, Reinhard Kapp, eds., Zyklus und Prozess: Joseph Haydn und die Zeit (Vienna: B枚hlau Verlag, 2012): 153-178.
- 鈥The Composer, the Surgeon, His Wife, and Her Poems: Haydn and the Anatomy of the English Canzonetta,鈥 Eighteenth-Century Music 6/1 (2009): 77-112. Winner of the Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Women and Music, International Alliance for Women in Music, 2011
- 鈥Watches Without Pockets: Singing 禁漫天堂 Minutes in a London Drawing Room, circa 1800,鈥 in Cliff Eisen, ed., Coll鈥 astuzia, col giudizio: Essays in Honor of Neal Zaslaw (Ann Arbor: Steglein, 2009): 268-285.
- Review of Andreas Friesenhagen and Egbert Hiller, eds. Volksliedbearbeitungen, Nr. 365-429, Schottische Lieder F眉r William Whyte in Joseph Haydn Werke, Reihe XXXII, Band 5 (Munich: G. Henle Verlag, 2005) Eighteenth-Century Music 5/2 (2008): 257-260.
AWARDS
- Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Women and Music, International Alliance for Women in Music, 2011
- Alternate, Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Association of University Women (AAUW), 2010-2011
- Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Fall 2009 and Fall 2010
- Winner, Innovative Course Design Competition, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2009
- Edison Fellowship, Sound Archive, British Library, London, 2007-2008
- Dissertation Prize, Gender Studies Program, Cornell University, 2002
- Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship, John S. Knight Writing Program, Cornell University, 2000-2001
RECENT INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
- 鈥淚 Say Symphony Rather Than Cacophony: In the Music History Classroom When Your Students
Would Rather Be Protesting, Organizing, and Advocating.鈥 Teaching Music History, Pedagogy
Study Group of the American Musicological Society, Berklee College of Music, Boston,
June 2017.
- 鈥淔aculty-Student Collaborative Research in Musicology: What, Why, How.鈥 Teaching Music History, Pedagogy Study Group of the American Musicological Society, Metropolitan State University, Denver, June 2016.
- 鈥淐reative Fidelity: Insights on Musical Performance via Translation Theory.鈥 Performance Studies Network Third International Conference, University of Cambridge, July 2014.
- 鈥淪inging as Translation: A 鈥楴ew Fidelity鈥 Approach to Performance and Meaning in Joseph Haydn鈥檚 Canzonettas.鈥 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamsburg (Virginia), March 2014.
- 鈥淥rigins and Journeys of Haydn鈥檚 English Canzonetta 鈥楾he Wanderer.鈥欌 American Musicological Society, San Francisco, November 2011.
- 鈥溾赌楧aughter of Sorrow鈥: Feminine Exile and Joseph Haydn鈥檚 鈥楾he Wanderer.鈥欌 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, March 2011.
- 鈥溾赌楲ost in the Past, Disregarding Tomorrow鈥: Journeys and Destinations of Haydn鈥檚 鈥楾he Wanderer.鈥欌 Works-in-Progress Series, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, October 2010.
- 鈥淔our Fidelities: Musicology Meets Translation Studies.鈥 Seminar series in 鈥淭ranslations, Adaptations, and Modalities,鈥 Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, November 2009.
- 鈥淭ime and Pastime in Songs of Haydn鈥檚 London.鈥 Institute of Musical Research, University of London School of Advanced Study, January 2009.
- 鈥淗aydn鈥檚 Canzonettas on Record.鈥 Studies in Recorded Music Seminar Series, British Library, London, January 2009.
- 鈥溾赌楾he Clock Points its Moral to the Heart鈥: Time and Memory in Haydn鈥檚 English Canzonettas,鈥
Zyklus und Prozess: Haydn und die Zeit, held at Institut f眉r Analyse, Theorie und
Geschichte der Musik, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, January 2009.