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Emily I. Dolan

Emily I. Dolan

In 2014, Emily I. Dolan joined the Harvard faculty as the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of Music. Previously, she was an associate professor of music at the University of Pennsylvania, where she taught since 2006. Dolan works on the music of the late 18th and 19th centuries. She focuses on issues of orchestration, timbre, aesthetics, and instrumentality, exploring in the intersections between music, science, and technology. She has published articles in Current Musicology, Eighteenth-Century Music, Studia Musicologica, Keyboard Perspectives, Representations, and 19th-Century Music. Dolan is interested in the intertwined history of musical and scientific instruments: in 2011, she published a co-authored essay with John Tresch (Penn, HSS) in Opera Quarterly on the role and reception of machines in French grand opera; they also co-authored an essay “Toward a New Organology: Instruments of Music and Science,” which appeared in Osiris in 2013. Dolan was a faculty fellow in the Penn Humanities Forum 2008-09 and in 2009-2010, Dolan was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Currently, Dolan is working on a collaborative project on timbre with Alexander Rehding for Oxford Handbooks Online and on her second book, which explores the concept of instrumentality (Instruments and Order).

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