Mary Paquette-Abt

Visiting Assistant Professor in Musicology (2008-2009)

B.A., Drake University; A.M. and Ph.D. (both in Musicology), University of Chicago.

Mary Paquette-Abt’s research interests include sacred and secular vocal music in Early Seventeenth-Century Rome and the culture of printed music, particularly anthologies, responsible for its wide dissemination. The composers, content, and organization of these prints reveal a network of professional musicians at the center of mainstream composition and performance practices. An additional teaching and research interest is music of the United States, particularly Detroit, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both interests pursue the role of music in print and in performance as evidence of culture and society, and rely on local archival sources.

Previously Dr. Paquette-Abt has taught at Indiana University, Michigan State University, the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Louisiana State University, The University of the South, and Wayne State University, where she has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Humanities Center. She has lectured on Detroit music at Wayne State University and at Tulane, has published reviews in The Journal of Musicological Research and Early Music, and has presented papers at both National and Chapter meetings of the American Musicological Society, International Musicological Society Congress, Renaissance Society of America, and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. She is currently Editorial Assistant for the on-line Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music.