Anna Maria Busse Berger
 amberger@ucdavis.edu 530.752.3999 228A Music Building Office Hours N/A (on sabbatical) |
Anna Maria Busse Berger is professor of Medieval and Renaissance History and Theory. Busse Berger has published articles and books on notation, mensuration and proportion signs, music and memory, mathematics and music, and historiography. Winner of the American Musicological Society's Alfred Einstein Award for best article by a young scholar, she has held fellowships at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for Humanities, the Stanford Humanties Center. Her book Medieval Music and the Art of Memory won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and the Wallace Berry Award from the Society of Music Theory for 2006. In 2005–06 she was the Lehman Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti. Her current project centers on music in Moravian Mission Stations in Africa, Greenland, and Surinam. She received a Lise-Meitner Fellowship for this project from the Austrian Science Fund in Vienna for 2011-12. Short CV Books Mensuration and Proportion Signs Medieval Music and the Art of Memory (Italian translation: La musica medievale e l'arte della memoria, Rome, 2008) Memory and Invention in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Visual Arts and Music |
Dumas awarded Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award