Musicology Master's (MA)

Rebecca Shaw

MA Musicology, 2019

MA Thesis: Differentiae in the Cantus Manuscript Database: A Cross-Manuscript Analysis

Why Dal?

I came to Dalhousie initially to complete a Master in Library and Information Studies. Through my work as a Research Assistant on the Cantus Manuscript Database with Dr. Jennifer Bain, I had the opportunity to pursue a Master of Arts in Musicology at the same time.

What Inspires Me?

Through my work as an RA, I have become interested in the relationships between differentiae within medieval chant manuscripts, including relationships within the same document and relationships between documents of different provenance.

Publications and Works

“The Kassel-Wolfenbüttel Tablature System: A Convergence of Lute Tablature and Mensural Notation,” presented at the 2016 Music Encoding Conference

“A ‘New Harmony’: Intertextuality and Quotation in Toru Takemitsu’s Folio III” in 2015 Undergraduate Awards (2016), http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/ungradawards_2015/1

“Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares by John Dowland: Tears of Lost Innocence” in Nota Bene: Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology, Vol. 7 (Spring 2014), http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/notabene/vol7/iss1/4/

Awards & Honours

Killam Predoctoral Fellowship, Level 1, Dalhousie University
Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CGS M), Dalhousie University
Governor General’s Silver Medal, Western University

After Grad?

After completing my studies at Dalhousie, I became a Music Archivist at the Music Library of the University of Toronto.