RESEARCH
As a musicologist, Libby likes to combine her passion for music cognition with her studies in musicology. Her research is shaped by an interdisciplinary approach; combining an interest in both empirical and theoretical writing, she uses both to investigate music composition, performance, and consumption as a behaviour. She is currently a Ph.D. student in musicology, cognitive collaboration, at the University of Western Ontario. Her developing dissertation focuses on recorded music, technology, and autobiographical memory.
Education
Research Work
2022
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Merit, not Genius: The Problem of Romanticized Disabilities and the Genius of Blind Boone
2021
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Interim Director, Budds Center for American Music Studies
Co-Author:
- 200 Memorable Missouri Musical Moments: Commentary,
Historical Photographs, & Video Clips
Editor:
- A Thematic Catalogue & Performance Chronicle
of the Music of John Cheetham
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Archival Manager for the Budds Center School of Music Archive
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2020
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Research Assistant for the Budds Center for American Music Studies
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Conditioning the Musical Ear: The Effects of 20th-century Sample Based Music on the Sound-to-Music Illusion (Ongoing)
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When Theories of Psychology and Music Intersect: A Case Study in Schoenberg, Dutilleux, and Lansky
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2019
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Schema-Based Education and the Composition Student: Considerations in Primary Composition Education
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Prescription Sound: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology
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2018
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Freudian Theory in Sound: Psychoanalysis and the Music of Weimar Germany
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The University of Missouri
2017-2020
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M.A. Musicology (2020)
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M.M. Composition (2019)
Belhaven University
2010-2014
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B.A. in Music (Composition)
Memberships
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American Musicological Society (2019-)
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Society for Music Perception and Cognition (2020-)