RESEARCH

As a musicologist, Libby likes to combine her passion for music cognition with her studies in music history. Her historical research and guest lecture style is shaped by social and cognitive considerations. Her projects in music are focused on the interdisciplinary field of music and cognitive research, gravitating towards the psychology of the compositional process as well as priming factors in listeners' musical preferences. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in musicology, cognitive collaboration, at the University of Western Ontario.
Education
Research Work
2021
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
Archival Manager for the Budds Center School of Music Archive
2020
Research Assistant for the Budds Center for American Music Studies
Conditioning the Musical Ear: The Effects of 20th-century Sample Based Music on the Sound-to-Music Illusion (Ongoing)
When Theories of Psychology and Music Intersect: A Case Study in Schoenberg, Dutilleux, and Lansky
2019
Schema-Based Education and the Composition Student: Considerations in Primary Composition Education
Prescription Sound: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology
2018
Freudian Theory in Sound: Psychoanalysis and the Music of Weimar Germany
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-)