Jacqueline Waeber | Scholars@Duke

Jacqueline Waeber
Associate Professor of Music

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, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008

Contact Information

105 Biddle Music Building, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
jw140@duke.edu (919) 660-3316

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Geneva (Switzerland) 2002
Duke Appointment History
- Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Music, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012 - 2015
Recognition
In the News
- NOV 18, 2013
  
  Documenting the South Through Sound
- AUG 23, 2013
  
  Go Inside Franklin Humanities' New Audiovisualities Lab
Expertise
Subject Headings
- Enlightenment
- Music and language
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Edition du Tricentenaire. Vol. 1, Garnier, 2012.
  - Waeber, J. R. Musique et Geste en France: de Lully à la Révolution. Vol. 50, Peter Lang, 2010.
  - Waeber, J. R. La Note Bleue. Mélanges offerts à Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger. Vol. 45, Peter Lang, Bern, 2009.
  - Waeber, J. R. En musique dans le texte. Le mélodrame, de Rousseau à Schoenberg. Van Dieren Editeur, Paris, 2006.
  - Waeber, J., and Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger. Frédéric Chopin: Interprétations. Droz, Geneva, 2005.
- Academic Articles
  - Waeber, Jacqueline. “What’s in a song: the case of Christopher Nolan’s ’Inception’.” Soundeffects, vol. 3, Aug. 2013, pp. 45–63.
  - Waeber, Jacqueline, et al. “Rousseau in 2013.” Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 66, no. 1, University of California Press, Apr. 2013, pp. 251–95. Crossref, doi:10.1525/jams.2012.66.1.251.
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  - Waeber, J. “Au-delà de l’opéra : l’opposition théorique entre ces deux genres revue au prisme du modèle mélodramatique de J.-J. Rousseau.” Nouvelle Revue D’Esthétique, Numéro Spécial “Pourquoi L’Opéra?,” edited by Maud Pouradier, 2013, pp. 23–32.
  - convenor, J. Waeber, et al. “Colloquy: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 2013: Afterthoughts on a Tercentenary.” Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 66, no. 1, 2013.
  - Dea, Michael O., editor. Rousseau copiste de musique: l’envers de l’auteur? Vol. 1, The Voltaire Foundation, 2012, pp. 197-222–197–222.
  - Waeber, J. “Entre défigurement et palimpseste : les Six Nouveaux airs du Devin du village de Rousseau à Ginguené.” Orages, vol. 11, 2012, pp. 31–78.
  - Jacqueline Waeber, X. “Déconstruire Rousseau: Chabanon annotateur du Dictionnaire de musique.” Annales De La Société Jean Jacques Rousseau, vol. 49, 2010, pp. 245–80.
  - Waeber, J. R. “Sur quel pied danser? Danse et littérature.” French Studies, vol. 64, 2010, pp. 239–40.
  - Jacqueline Waeber, J. “Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "unité de mélodie".” Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 62, no. 1, 2009, pp. 79–143.
  - Waeber, J. R. “Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Letter to d’Alembert, and Writings for the Theater. Translated and Edited by Allan Bloom, Charles Butterworth, and Christopher Kelly.” British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, vol. 30, 2007, pp. 150-151–150–151.
  - Waeber, Jacqueline. “Searching for the Plot: Charles-Valentin Alkan's Souvenirs: Trois morceaux dans le genre pathétique, Op. 15.” Journal of the Royal Musical Association, vol. 132, no. 1, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2007, pp. 60–114. Crossref, doi:10.1093/jrma/fkm005.
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  - Waeber, J. R. “Catherine Kintzler: Théâtre et opéra à l’âge classique.” Music & Letters, vol. 87, 2006, pp. 639–42.
  - Waeber, J. R. “Mark Darlow: Nicolas-Etienne Framery and Lyric Theatre in Eighteenth-Century France.” Eighteenth Century Music, vol. 3, 2006, pp. 146–48.
  - Waeber, J. R. “Christopher Kelly: Rousseau as Author.” French Studies, vol. 58, 2004, pp. 414–15.
  - Jacqueline Waeber, the E-risk Study Team. “Décor et pantomimes du Devin du Village: Une étude didascalique.” Annales De La Société Jean Jacques Rousseau, vol. 45, 2003, pp. 131–65.
  - Waeber, J. R. “Claude Dauphin: La musique au temps des Lumières.” French Studies, vol. 57, 2003, pp. 539–40.
  - Jacqueline Waeber, A. V. “Cette horrible innovation": The first version of the recitative parts of Rousseau's Le devin du village.” Music & Letters, vol. 82, no. 2, 2001, pp. 177–213.
  - Jacqueline Waeber, A. V. “Beaumarchais et Rousseau: Sur quelques aspects du renouveau de la pantomime et de l'avènement du mélodrame.” French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, vol. 8, 2000, pp. 205–24.
  - Waeber, J. R. “"J’ai imaginé un genre de drame": Une réflexion sur la partition musicale du mélodrame de Pygmalion.” Schweizer Jahrbuch Für Musikwissenschaft, vol. 18, 1998, pp. 147–79.
  - Jacqueline Waeber, A. V. “Pygmalion et J.-J. Rousseau.” Fontes Artis Musicae, vol. 44, no. 1, 1997, pp. 32–41.
- Book Sections
  - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. “Le Devin du village, édition critique, texte et musique par J. Waeber; Lettre à M. Grimm, édition critique par J. Waeber.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Edition Du Tricentenaire, vol. 1, Garnier, 2012.
  - Waeber, J. R. “Rousseau copiste de musique: l’envers de l’auteur?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau En 2012: ’Puisqu’enfin Mon Nom Doit Vivre’, edited by Michael O. Dea, vol. 1, The Voltaire Foundation, 2012, pp. 197-222–197–222.
  - Waeber, J. R. “Yvette Guilbert and the Revaluation of the “chanson populaire” and “chanson ancienne” during the Third Republic, 1889-1914.” The Oxford Handbook to the New Cultural History of Music, edited by Jane Fulcher, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 264–306.
  - Waeber, J. R. “The Voice-Over as ’Melodramatic’ Voice.” Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama, edited by Sarah Hibberd, Ashgate, 2011, pp. 215–35.
  - Waeber, J. R. “L’opéra, fenêtre sur le Réel: The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005) de Stephen et Timothy Quay.” Opéra et Fantastique, edited by Hervé Lacombe and Timothée Picard, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010, pp. 351-364–351–364.
  - Waeber, J. R. “Grétry héritier de Rousseau: l’intégration du récitatif dans l’opéra-comique.” André Modeste Grétry. L’Amant Jaloux Ou Les Fausses Apparences. Livret, Études et Commentaires, edited by Jean Duron, Mardaga - Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, 2009, pp. 231-262–231–262.
  - Waeber, J. R. “Du bon usage des titres: le cas Alkan.” La Note Bleue. Mélanges Offerts à Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, edited by J. Waeber, Peter Lang, Bern, 2009, pp. 241–65.
  - Waeber, J. R. “"Le Devin de la Foire"? Revaluating the Pantomime in Rousseau’s Devin du village.” Musique et Geste En France: De Lully à La Révolution, edited by J. Waeber, vol. 50, Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 149–72.
  - Waeber, J. R. “La scène kaléidoscope de la Gorge-aux-Loups.” Der Freischütz, Programme Du Grand Théâtre de Genève, 2008, pp. 24–27.
  - Waeber, J. R. “L’invention du récitatif obligé, ou comment relire la Lettre sur la musique françoise.” La Querelle Des Bouffons Dans La Vie Culturelle Française Du XVIIIème Siècle, edited by Andrea Fabiano, CNRS, Paris, 2005, pp. 187–203.
  - Waeber, J. R. “Paysage d’avant Querelle: Rousseau continuateur de Grimm.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, vol. 8, 2004, pp. 229–49.
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
- CINE 230S: Sound, Music, and the Moving Image 2021
- MUSIC 129S: Sound, Music, and the Moving Image 2021
- MUSIC 790S-1: Seminar in the History of Music 2021
- MUSIC 791: Independent Study 2021
- VMS 217S: Sound, Music, and the Moving Image 2021
- MUSIC 256S: Music History II: 1600 through Mozart 2020
- MUSIC 791: Independent Study 2020
- AMI 230S: Sound, Music, and the Moving Image 2019
- ENGLISH 890S: Special Topics Seminar 2019
- LIT 890S: Seminars in Literature 2019
- MUSIC 89S: First-Year Seminar 2019
- MUSIC 129S: Sound, Music, and the Moving Image 2019
- MUSIC 249: Hollywood Film Music 2019
- MUSIC 393: Research Independent Study 2019
- MUSIC 554: Music in the Classic Era 2019
- MUSIC 790S-1: Seminar in the History of Music 2019
- MUSIC 791: Independent Study 2019
- ROMST 790S: Topics in Romance Studies 2019
Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
Presentations & Appearances
Service to the Profession
- Committee member : American Musicological Society Solie Award Committe. 2013 2013
- Advisory board of Eighteenth-Century Studies. July 1, 2011 2011

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Duke Appointment History

In the News

Subject Headings

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Recent Courses

Presentations & Appearances

Service to the Profession