Jennifer Bain

Education

• BMus (Wilfrid Laurier University)
• MA (McGill University)
• PhD (Stony Brook University)

Research & creative activity

Professor Bain鈥檚 research interests are wide-ranging, including the secular music of 14th-century poet and composer, Guillaume de Machaut, medieval music theory, digital chant research, the 19th- and 20th-century reception of Hildegard of Bingen, as well as issues surrounding the role of women in the production and composition of music.

Teaching

• Music Theory III ()
• Music Theory IV ()
• Studies in Medieval Music (MUSC )
• Form and Analysis: The Second Viennese School to the Present Day ()

Selected publications

• J. Bain.听鈥淭he impact of Hildegard of Bingen鈥檚 bibliographers and catalogers.鈥� In听Manuscripts, Music, Machaut: Essays in Honor of Lawrence Earp.听Edited by Jared C. Hartt, Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel, and Benjamin L. Albritton. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022, 87鈥�98.
• J. Bain, editor.听The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. DOI:听
• J. Bain. 鈥淢usic, Liturgy, and Intertextuality in Hildegard of Bingen鈥檚 Chant Repertory.鈥澨�The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen.听Edited by Jennifer Bain. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 209鈥�234.
• J. Bain and Stephanie Morley, guest co-editors.听In focus: Material Matters and the Salzinnes Antiphonal. In听Florilegium听24 (2017): 66-146 [issued in 2021].
• J. Bain and Nancy Yunhwa Rao, guest co-editors.听The Music of Chen Yi.听滨苍听Music Theory Online听26.3 (2020).听
• 鈥淣ature, Reason, and Light in Vision 鈥� aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen.鈥� The Oxford Handbook of Medievalism and Music. Edited by Kirsten Yri and Stephen Meyer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020, 468鈥�483.
• E. De Luca, J. Bain, I. Behrendt, I. Fujinaga, K. Helsen, A. Ignesti, D. Lacoste, and S. A. Long, 鈥淐apturing Early Notations in MEI: The Case of Old Hispanic Neumes.鈥� Musiktheorie - Zeitschrift f眉r Musikwissenschaft 34/3 (2019): 229鈥�249.
• 鈥淗istory of a Book: Hildegard of Bingen鈥檚 鈥楻iesencodex鈥� and World War II.鈥� Plainsong and Medieval Music 27/2 (2018): 143鈥�170.
• 鈥淰aried repetition in Hildegard鈥檚 sequence for St. Rupert: O Ierusalem aurea civitas.鈥� Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Secular and Sacred Music to 1900. Edited by Brenda Ravenscroft and Laurel Parsons. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, 11鈥�46.
• I. Behrendt, J. Bain, and K. Helsen. 鈥淢EI Kodierung der fr眉hesten Notation in linienlosen Neumen.鈥� Kodikologie und Pal盲ographie im Digitalen Zeitalter / Codicology and Paleography in the Digital Age. Vol. 4. Edited by Hannah Busch, Franz Fischer, and Patrick Sahle, with the cooperation of Philip Hegel and Celiz Krause, Norderstedt 2016. K枚ln: Institut f眉r Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V, 2017, 281鈥�296.
• Hildegard of Bingen and Musical Reception: the Modern Revival of a Medieval Composer.听Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• 鈥淲as Hildegard forgotten?鈥澨�Journal of Musicological Research听34/1 (2015), 1-30.听 听
• K. Helsen, J. Bain, I. Fujinaga, A. Hankinson, and D. Lacoste, 鈥淥ptical Music Recognition and Manuscript Chant Sources,鈥澨�Early Music听42/4 (2014), 555-558.听 听听
• D. McGrady and J. Bain, eds.听A Companion to Guillaume de Machaut. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2012, 414 pages.
• J. Bain, guest editor.听Journal of Music Theory听52/1 (2008), 184 pages [issued 2009].
• 鈥溾€楳essy Structure?鈥� Multiple Tonal Centers in the Music of Machaut.鈥澨�Music Theory Spectrum听30/2 (2008), 195-237.

Recent Awards and honours

Principal Investigator,听Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,听Partnership Grant, 2023鈥�2030, 鈥淒igital Analysis of Chant Transmission,鈥� $2,495,299

Principal Investigator,听Digital Research Alliance, 2023鈥�2026, 鈥淒igital Analysis of Chant Transmission鈥�

Sheila K. Piercey Award for Performing Arts Educators,听鲍鱼tv University, 2020

Principal Investigator,听Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,听Insight Grant, 2019鈥�2024, 鈥淐ontextualizing the Music of Hildegard of Bingen,鈥� $198,442

Principal Investigator,听Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,听Partnership Development Grant, 2019鈥�2022, 鈥淒igital Analysis of Chant Transmission,鈥� $199,348

Royal Society of Canada, elected a member of the College of New Artists, Scholars, and Scientists, November 2016

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