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Music Department
Sarah Day-O'Connell

Sarah Day-O’Connell

Professor

Office: Zankel Music Center 121
Phone: (518) 580-5343
Email:  sdayocon@skidmore.edu

DEGREES:

  • Ph.D., Musicology, with Minor in Gender Studies, Cornell University
  • B.Mus., Music History and Piano Performance, Oberlin College

RESEARCH INTERESTS

In my research I combine musical analysis with interpretation of literary, visual, and material culture in order to explore how musical activity, especially singing, reflects and shapes broader social concerns – in particular, about gender and politics.  I also examine transcriptions, “covers,â€� recordings, theories of performance, criticism, and listener reception because I’m interested in how music, through performance, changes meaning across times and cultures.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Music history and historiography; music and culture; late eighteenth-century music and aesthetics, gender and music; translation studies; music and medicine, faith, and healing; musical authorship/borrowing/plagiarism/copyright; opera; flamenco; Caribbean steelband; Japanese taiko drumming; American shape-note singing; music about trains.

PUBLICATIONS

Edited Book

  • , co-edited with Caryl Clark (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Articles and Chapters

AWARDS

  • Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Women and Music, International Alliance for Women in Music, 2011
  • Alternate, Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Association of University Women (AAUW), 2010-2011
  • Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Fall 2009 and Fall 2010
  • Winner, Innovative Course Design Competition, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2009
  • Edison Fellowship, Sound Archive, British Library, London, 2007-2008
  • Dissertation Prize, Gender Studies Program, Cornell University, 2002
  • Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship, John S. Knight Writing Program, Cornell University, 2000-2001

RECENT INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

  • “I Say Symphony Rather Than Cacophony: In the Music History Classroom When Your Students Would Rather Be Protesting, Organizing, and Advocating.â€� Teaching Music History, Pedagogy Study Group of the American Musicological Society, Berklee College of Music, Boston, June 2017.
  • “Faculty-Student Collaborative Research in Musicology: What, Why, How.â€� Teaching Music History, Pedagogy Study Group of the American Musicological Society, Metropolitan State University, Denver, June 2016.
  • “Creative Fidelity: Insights on Musical Performance via Translation Theory.â€� Performance Studies Network Third International Conference, University of Cambridge, July 2014.
  • “Singing as Translation: A ‘New Fidelity’ Approach to Performance and Meaning in Joseph Haydn’s Canzonettas.â€�  American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamsburg (Virginia), March 2014.
  • “Origins and Journeys of Haydn’s English Canzonetta ‘The Wanderer.’â€�  American Musicological Society, San Francisco, November 2011.
  • “â¶Ä˜Daughter of Sorrow’: Feminine Exile and Joseph Haydn’s ‘The Wanderer.’â€� American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, March 2011.
  • “â¶Ä˜Lost in the Past, Disregarding Tomorrow’: Journeys and Destinations of Haydn’s ‘The Wanderer.’â€� Works-in-Progress Series, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, October 2010.
  • “Four Fidelities: Musicology Meets Translation Studies.â€�  Seminar series in “Translations, Adaptations, and Modalities,â€� Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, November 2009.
  • “Time and Pastime in Songs of Haydn’s London.â€� Institute of Musical Research, University of London School of Advanced Study, January 2009.
  • “Haydn’s Canzonettas on Record.â€� Studies in Recorded Music Seminar Series, British Library, London, January 2009.
  • “â¶Ä˜The Clock Points its Moral to the Heart’: Time and Memory in Haydn’s English Canzonettas,â€� Zyklus und Prozess: Haydn und die Zeit, held at Institut für Analyse, Theorie und Geschichte der Musik, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, January 2009.