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Barbara Elisabeth Dietlinger

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology

Email: Barbara.Dietlinger@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of Chicago, 2021
    Major: Music
    Dissertation: Music and Commemoration in Early Modern Europe: Visual and Sonic Intersections of Remebrance
  • MA, University of Chicago, 2017
    Major: Music
  • MA, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, 2016
    Major: Slavic Philology
  • MA, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, 2015
    Major: Musicology

Development Activities

  • Workshop, Promotion & Tenure Workshop, UNT Faculty Success. Denton,TX,United States of America. (February 28, 2025).
  • Workshop, 2024-25 University Forum on Teaching and Learning: UFTL Forum on Generative AI, UNT Faculty Success. Denton,Texas,United States of America. (September 25, 2024 - September 25, 2024).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • MUMH 3500 - Music History and Literature to 1750, 2 courses.
  • MUMH 5711 - Proseminar in Musicology, 1 course.
  • MUMH 6000 - Seminar in Musicology, 1 course.

Non-Credit Instruction

  • Workshop, UNT, 12 participants. (February 10, 2025 - February 10, 2025).

Directed Student Learning

  • Dissertation Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (February 19, 2025).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (December 20, 2024).
  • Other (Course Project for Honor's Student in MUMH 3500), Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (January 2025 - May 2025).
  • Other (Course Project for Honor's Student in MUMH 3500), Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (August 2024 - December 2024).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Journal Article

  • Dietlinger, B. (2024). “Musical Signposts: Dutch Songs Negotiating the Peace of Münster (1648)”. Journal of Musicology. 51 (2) 149–178. Oakland, CA, University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/jm.2024.41.2.149

Presentations Given

    Invited Talk

  • Dietlinger, B. (Author & Presenter), USM School of Music Colloquium, Media Wars and Musical Mockery: Religious Polemics in Early Modern German Song, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, United States of America. (2025).
  • Oral Presentation

  • Dietlinger, B. (Author & Presenter), 2025 conference of the Renaissance Society of America, “Concio et Cantio”: Intertextuality and Confessional Tensions in the 1617 Reformation Centenary, Renaissance Society of America, Boston, MA, United States of America. (2025 - 2025).
  • Dietlinger, B. (Author & Presenter), Meeting of the Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society, “Concio et Cantio”: Intertextuality and Confessional Tensions in the 1617 Reformation Centenary, Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Hattiesburg, MS, United States of America. (2025 - 2025).
  • Dietlinger, B. (Author & Presenter), Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Libation as Intercultural Communication: Hermann Leopoldi’s ‘I bin a stiller Zecher’, American Musicological Society, Chicago, IL, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Dietlinger, B. (Author & Presenter), Beyond Contrafacts - A Symposium Preceding the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Borrowing from the Enemy: Catholic Contrafacts as a Response to the Protestant Reformation Jubilees of 1617, Chicago, IL, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Dietlinger, B. (Author & Presenter), 2024 AMS Southwest Chapter Meeting, From Heuriger to Scotch: Hermann Leopoldi’s Musical Adaptation, AMS Southwest, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., Wright, B.F., Virani, V., Snyder, B., Sella, T., Dietlinger, B., "Team Mentoring Grant," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2024 - 2025).

Service

University Service

  • Prepare/Grade Certification Exams, German language proficiency exam. (September 2024 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Academic Degree Committee. (September 2024 - Present).
  • Student Recruiter, Recruitment at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society. (November 14, 2024 - November 17, 2024).

Professional Service

  • Committee Member, Society for Seventeenth Century Music. Denton, TX. (July 10, 2020 - Present).
  • Officer, Other Officer (Council Representative to the National Society), Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society. Chicago, IL. (October 5, 2024 - 2027).
  • Session Chair, Renaissance Society of America. Boston, MA. (March 21, 2025).
  • Session Chair, American Musicological Society. Chicago, IL. (November 14, 2024 - November 17, 2024).