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Jacqueline Waeber

Associate Professor of Music
Music
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
105 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Melodrama and related genres, from opera to film; theatrical practices and visual cultures; French musical aesthetics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, music and philosophy of the arts; the 'chanson populaire'.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Music · 2008 - Present Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published November 18, 2013
Documenting the South Through Sound
Published August 23, 2013
Go Inside Franklin Humanities' New Audiovisualities Lab

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Recent Publications


Speaking German Musically: Poetic Recitation in Central Europe, 1760-1820

Book · May 20, 2025 Poetic Recitation in Central Europe, 1760-1820 Jacqueline Waeber. spection , became the privileged theatrical locus for the display of excess . 62 The melodramatic libretto is a ' shortened tragedy ' : a Kurztragödie , a term used in German .. ... Cite

The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera

Book · December 22, 2022 With a range from opera's sixteenth-century antecedents to the threshold of the eighteenth century, this path breaking book is broad enough to function as a comprehensive introduction, yet sufficiently detailed to offer valuable insights ... ... Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Geneva (Switzerland) · 2002 Ph.D.