Pictured from left: Associate Professor Benjamin Levy and UC Santa Barbara alumna Dr. Laura Emmery ‘14
Associate Professor Benjamin Levy publishes article with Alumna Laura Emmery ‘14 in Music Theory Online Dr. Benjamin Levy, Associate Professor of Music Theory at UC Santa Barbara, recently co-curated a collection of essays with UC Santa Barbara alumna Dr. Laura Emmery ‘14. Their introductory essay to the Special Symposium, “Archival Research in Music: New Materials, Methods, and Arguments,” appears in the most recent issue of Music Theory Online, the official online journal of the Society for Music Theory, which was founded by Dr. Lee Rothfarb, Professor of Music Theory at UC Santa Barbara. “The collection of essays is something that Laura and I had been working on for a while,” shared Dr. Levy. “We wanted to highlight a lot of the recent archival research that is going on in music right now, because there are a lot of scholars taking really clever and creative new approaches. There are articles that are looking at musical recordings, computer code, the documents created by copyists and arrangers, and all kinds of archival documentation—so really going beyond what most people imagine when they think of sketch studies and scholars pouring over dusty manuscripts in order to make a definitive critical edition.” UC Santa Barbara Department of Music | Fall 2021 Newsletter | 7
