Margot E. Fassler
Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History.
Professor Fassler’s special fields of study are medieval and American sacred music, and the liturgy of the Latin Middle Ages; subspecialties are liturgical drama of the Middle Ages and Mariology. Her book Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris has received awards from both the American Musicological Society and the Medieval Academy of America. She has edited a volume on the divine office (Oxford University Press) and has just completed a book on the cult of the Virgin Mary at Chartres (forthcoming from Yale University Press, Fall 2009). She is the author of some forty articles on a broad range of topics and, as a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for 2008-09, is preparing a book on the twelfth-century theologian, exegete, and composer Hildegard of Bingen; she is also completing a textbook for W. W. Norton on medieval music. Fassler's book Psalms in Community (edited with Harold Attridge) has been reprinted and is now sold by the Society of Biblical Literature alongside her film, Joyful Noise:Psalms in Community. Under the auspices of a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., Professor Fassler continues to work with congregations and practitioners to make videos of sacred music in its liturgical contexts; she has just completed (with Jacqueline Richard) the film Performing the Passion: JS Bach and the Gospel according to John. Professor Fassler is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. B.A., State University of New York; M.A., Syracuse University; M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D., Cornell University.