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Rebecca D. Geoffroy-Schwinden

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology

College: College of Music

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, Duke University, 2015
    Major: Music
    Specialization: Musicology
    Dissertation: Politics, the French Revolution, and Performance: Parisian Musicians as an Emergent Professional Class, 1749-1802
  • MA, Duke University, 2011
    Major: Music
    Specialization: Musicology
  • BA, Penn State University, 2007
    Major: International Studies
    Dissertation: with honors in history
  • BA, Schreyer Honors College, Penn State University, 2007
    Major: History
    Specialization: with honors in history

Current Scheduled Teaching

MUCS 3100Z.002Critical Studies in Music and Society ColloquiumSpring 2025
MUGC 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2025
MUMH 5341.001Western Music History, 1700 1800Spring 2025
MUMH 5030.001Advanced Issues in Music ResearchFall 2024
MUCS 3100Z.001Critical Studies in Music and Society ColloquiumFall 2024
MUGC 6950.726Doctoral DissertationFall 2024
MUGC 5950.717Master's ThesisFall 2024
MUCS 4000.001Senior Capstone in Critical Studies in Music and SocietyFall 2024 Syllabus
MUMH 6900.701Special ProblemsFall 2024

Previous Scheduled Teaching

MUGC 6950.702Doctoral DissertationSummer 5W1 2024
MUGC 6900.702Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2024
MUGC 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2024
MUGC 6950.710Doctoral DissertationSpring 2024
MUGC 5950.720Master's ThesisSpring 2024
MUGC 6950.726Doctoral DissertationFall 2023
MUGC 5950.717Master's ThesisFall 2023
MUCS 3100Z.001Critical Studies in Music and Society ColloquiumSpring 2023
MUGC 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
MUGC 6950.710Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
MUGC 5950.710Master's ThesisSpring 2023
MUMH 6030.001Professional Development in MusicologySpring 2023 SPOT
MUMH 6000.001Seminar in MusicologySpring 2023
MUCS 3100Z.001Critical Studies in Music and Society ColloquiumFall 2022
MUGC 6950.726Doctoral DissertationFall 2022
MUGC 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2022
MUGC 5950.717Master's ThesisFall 2021
MUMH 4770.001Choral LiteratureSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
MUGC 5950.724Master's ThesisSpring 2021
MUMH 6000.003Seminar in MusicologySpring 2021 SPOT
MUGC 6950.726Doctoral DissertationFall 2020
MUMH 5010.003Introduction to Research in MusicFall 2020 SPOT
MUGC 5950.717Master's ThesisFall 2020
MUMH 5341.001Western Music History, 1700 1800Fall 2020 SPOT
MUGC 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2020
MUMH 5010.002Introduction to Research in MusicSpring 2020
MUGC 5950.724Master's ThesisSpring 2020
MUMH 4770.001Masterpieces of Choral LiteratureSpring 2020 Syllabus
MUGC 6950.726Doctoral DissertationFall 2019
MUGC 5950.717Master's ThesisFall 2019
MUMH 5711.001Seminar in MusicologyFall 2019 SPOT
MUMH 5341.001Western Music History, 1700 1800Fall 2019 SPOT
MUMH 5010.002Introduction to Research in MusicSpring 2019 SPOT
MUGC 5950.724Master's ThesisSpring 2019
MUMH 4770.001Masterpieces of Choral LiteratureSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 6900.702Special ProblemsSpring 2019
MUMH 5030.001Advanced Issues in Music ResearchFall 2018 SPOT
MUMH 5010.001Introduction to Research in MusicFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUGC 5950.717Master's ThesisFall 2018
MUMH 6900.702Special ProblemsFall 2018
MUMH 5010.002Introduction to Research in MusicSpring 2018 SPOT
MUMH 4770.001Masterpieces of Choral LiteratureSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 6900.701Special ProblemsSpring 2018
MUMH 6750.001Classical MusicFall 2017 SPOT
MUMH 5341.001Western Music History, 1700 1800Fall 2017 SPOT
MUMH 5010.002Introduction to Research in MusicSpring 2017 SPOT
MUMH 4770.001Masterpieces of Choral LiteratureSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 5010.001Introduction to Research in MusicFall 2016 SPOT
MUMH 4070.001Operatic LiteratureFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
MUMH 5110.001History of OperaSpring 2016 SPOT
MUMH 5341.001Western Music History, 1700 1800Spring 2016 SPOT
MUMH 6750.001Classical MusicFall 2015 SPOT
MUMH 5010.001Introduction to Research in MusicFall 2015 SPOT

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (2022). From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution. 336. New York, Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/from-servant-to-savant-9780197511510?cc=ca&lang=en&
  • Book Chapter

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2023). Madame Campan’s Portrait, or Self-Portrait of a Feminist Musicologist. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Art and Music. 53–68. Bloomsbury Press.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., Lingold, M., Mueller, D., Trettien, W. (2018). Digital Approaches to Historical Acoustemologies: Replication and Reenactment. Digital Sound Studies. 231–49. Durham, NC, Duke University Press.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., Beaurepaire, P., Bourdin, P., Wolff, C. (2018). The Revolution of Jommelli's Objets d'art: Bernard Sarrette's Acquisition of Musical Manuscripts for the Bibliothèque du Conservatoire. Moving Scenes: The Circulation of Music and Theatre in Europe, 1700–1815. 61–76. Oxford, Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment, Voltaire Foundation.
  • Book Review

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2022). Review. Mélanie Traversier. L’harmonica de verre et miss Davies. Essai sur la mécanique du succès au siècle des Lumières. French Studies. 76 (4) 674–5. French Studies. Oxford University Press..
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2022). Review. Hedy Law. Music, Pantomime & Freedom in Enlightenment France. Eighteenth-Century Music. 19 (2) 205–7. Eighteenth-Century Music. Cambridge University Press.
  • , R.D. (2020). Review of Emily H. Green, Dedicating Music, 1785–1850. Revue de musicologie. Revue de musicologie. 106, no. 2 534–6.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2019). Review of Olivia Bloechl, Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France. Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Newsletter. 33 (Spring 2019) 9–10.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. Review of R. J. Arnold, Musical Debate and Political Culture in France, 1700–1800. Music & Letters. Music & Letters. 99, no. 1 (2018) 124–6. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2014). Review of Mark Darlow, Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opéra, 1789–1794. Eighteenth-Century Music. 11 (1) 115–118. Cambridge, Cambridge Journals.
  • Critical Review

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2023). Paisajes Sonoros Histórico/Historical Soundscapes. 4 (5)
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (2020). Conference Report. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Denver, March 21–23, 2019.. Eighteenth-Century Music. Eighteenth-Century Music. 17, no. 1 138–40. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  • Encyclopedia Article

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., Miller, M., Heidlberger, F.M., Heidlberger, F.M. (2021). Etienne-Nicolas Méhul. Lexikon des Orchesters. Laaber-Verlag.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., Heidlberger, F.M., Heidlberger, F.M. (2021). François-Joseph Gossec. Lexikon des Orchesters. Laaber-Verlag.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., Heidlberger, F.M., Heidlberger, F.M. (2021). Jean-François Lesueur. Lexikon des Orchesters. Laaber-Verlag.
  • Journal Article

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2019). Music as Feminine Capital in Napoleonic France: Nancy Macdonald's Musical Upbringing. Music & Letters. 100 (2) 302–334. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2018). Music, Copyright, and Intellectual Property during the French Revolution: A Newly Discovered Letter from André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry. Transposition: Musique et sciences sociales. 7 17. Paris, l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales et la Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris. http://journals.openedition.org/transposition/2057
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2017). A Lady-in-Waiting's Account of Marie Antoinette's Musical Politics: Women, Music, and the French Revolution. Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture. 21 72–100. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2014). Horrific Opera, Aesthetic Violence: Genere in Dario Argento's Opera (1987). Kinetophone. 1 15–34. Lisbon, “Listening to the moving images: new interdisciplinary methodologies for the study of sound and music on Portuguese cinema and media”, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) and developed at the Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)..
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2014). Rousseau and the Revolutionary Repertoire. Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture. 43 89–110. Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Magazine/Trade Publication

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (2019). La Bohème at the Dallas Opera. Opera News. New York, Metropolitan Opera Guild. https://www.operanews.com/
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2019). Carmen at the Dallas Opera. Opera News. 83 New York, Metropolitan Opera Guild.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2018). La Traviata at the Dallas Opera. New York, NY, Metropolitan Opera Guild.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2018). Samson et Dalila at the Dallas Opera. 36. New York, NY, Metropolitan Opera Guild.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2017). Norma at the Dallas Opera. Opera News. 44. New York, NY, Metropolitan Opera Guild.
  • Newsletter

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2020). Teaching ‘1700–1800’ in 2020. Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Newsletter. 36 (Fall 2020) 5–6. Society for Eighteenth-Century Music.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2016). To the illustrious members of our learned society.... Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Newsletter. 3. Society for Eighteenth-Century Music.
  • Scholarly Preface

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2015). Adolph Charles Adam, Si j'étais roi (Overtüre). Musikproduktion Jürgen Höflich.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2014). André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry, La rosière républicaine (Ballettmusik). Musikproduktion Jürgen Höflich.
  • Webpage

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2014). Organs of the Soul: Sonic Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Provoke! Digital Edition. Durham, NC, Duke University PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge. http://sites.fhi.duke.edu/soundbox/the-collection-provoke/.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Henry Belin du Pont Fellowship," sponsored by Hagley Museum & Library, National, $3200 Funded. (2022).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., "NEH-Hagley Fellowship in Business, Culture, and Society," sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities and Hagley Museum and Library, National, $40000 Funded. (2023 - 2024).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Principal), "Washington DC Faculty Fellow," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, Funded. ( - 2020).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R., "CREATE Program," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2019 - 2019).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., "Scholarly and Creative Activity Award," University of North Texas, $3500 Funded. (2018 - 2018).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Junior Faculty Summer Research Support Award," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2016 - 2016).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Ottis Green Fellowship," sponsored by Duke University Graduate School, Other, $21580 Funded. (2014 - 2015).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Summer Research Fellowship," sponsored by Duke University Graduate School, Other, $5000 Funded. (2014 - 2014).
  • 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).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Summer Stipend," sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities, Federal, $6000 Funded. (2023 - 2024).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Scholarly and Creative Activity Award," University of North Texas, $2200 Funded. (2023 - 2023).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Exploratory Research Grant," sponsored by Hagley Museum & Library, National, $400 Funded. (2022 - 2022).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R., "M. Elizabeth C. Bartlett Grant for Research in France," sponsored by American Musicological Society, National, $2100 Funded. (2019 - 2019).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., "Conference Support Program," sponsored by UNT Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (2017 - 2017).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Supporting), Youngs, J. (Principal), "I-GRO, GAMES," sponsored by UNT International, University of North Texas, $3200 Funded. (2016 - 2016).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Membership and Professional Development Grant," sponsored by American Musicological Society, International, $200 Funded. ( - 2014).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R., "M. Elizabeth C. Bartlett Grant for Research in France," sponsored by American Musicological Society, National, Funded. (2019 - 2019).
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