Richard Semmens
PhD (Stanford University, 1980)
Research funding from SSHRCC
Research Interests:
Theory and practice of French baroque music; baroque dance and dance music; 17th-century music and science; history of woodwind instruments; history of theory.
Representative Publications
Books
- Joseph Sauveur's 'Treatise of the Theory of Music'. A Study, Diplomatic Transcription and Annotated Translation. Studies in Music from the University of Western Ontario, vol. 11, 1987
- The Bals Publics at the Paris Opera in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Pendragon Press, 2004).
Articles
- 'The Bassons in Mersenne's Harmonie universelle,' Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 10 (1984), 22-31
- 'Etienne Loulié and the New Harmonic Counterpoint,' Journal of Music Theory 28 (1984), 73-88
- 'Music and Poetry in a Chanson by Gilles Binchois', in Beyond the Moon: Festschrift Luther Dittmer, eds. B. Gillingham and P. Merkley, Ottawa: Institute of Medieval Music, 1990, 307-322
- 'Joseph Sauveur and the Absolute Frequency of Pitch,' Theoria 5 (1991), 1-41.
- 'Such Sweet Harmonie: Mozart's Chamber Music for Wind Instruments,' Studies in Music from the University of Western Ontario 14 (1993), 131-154
- 'Dancing and Dance Music in Purcell's Operas', in Performing the Music of Henry Purcell, ed. Michael Burden, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, 180-96
- '"La Furstenberg" and "St Martin's Lane": Purcell's French Odyssey,' Music and Letters, 7 (1997), 337-48
- 'Branles, Gavottes and Contredanses in the Later Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries,' Dance Research 15/2 (1997), 35-62.
E-mail:
musrts@uwo.ca
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 85380
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