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Kate van Orden is an American musicologist and bassoonist, currently Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music at Harvard University. [1]
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Kate van Orden is an American musicologist and bassoonist, currently Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music at Harvard University. [1]
Van Orden obtained a Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from the University of Chicago in 1996.
She worked at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1997 until moving to Harvard in 2013. She was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society from 2008 to 2010, and currently serves on the editorial boards of Early Music History, Saggiatore Musicale, Oxford Bibliographies, and The New Cultural History of Music. Her principal research interest is the French chanson, on which she has written two books.
Van Orden has made numerous recordings with Les Arts Florissants (dir. William Christie), Collegium Vocale Ghent (dir. Philippe Herreweghe), Anima Aeterna (dir. Jos Van Immerseele), La Petite Bande (dir. Sigiswald Kuijken), Tafelmusik (dir. Jeanne Lamon), Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (dir. Nicholas McGegan), and American Bach Soloists (dir. Jeffrey Thomas). [2]
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America.
Stéphane Mallarmé, pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism.
Jacobus Clemens non Papa was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance based for most of his life in Flanders. He was a prolific composer in many of the current styles, and was especially famous for his polyphonic settings of the psalms in Dutch known as the Souterliedekens.
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