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Faculty

Erica P Levenson

Associate Professor: Music History

Schuette Hall A308
TEL: (315) 267-2410


Dr. Erica Levenson is a musicologist whose primary research focuses on baroque music, with an emphasis on the transnational circulation of opera, popular songs, and musical theater. Her current book project, Playful Enemies: French Song, Satire, and Spectacle in Early Eighteenth-Century England, examines the Anglo-French political and socio-economic landscape of the 1710s-1740s through the lens of the French musical and theatrical invasion of the London stage. She has additional research interests in historical performance practice and the history of sampling in contemporary popular music.

An advocate of building collaborations across diverse intellectual communities, Dr. Levenson has presented her research at both national and international conferences, including the International Conference on Baroque Music, the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society, and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, among others. Her articles have been published in the journals Eighteenth-Century Music and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture as well as in the edited volume Music, Myth, and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Boydell and Brewer Press). Much of her research is archival-based and has been supported by the American Musicological Society Jan LaRue Travel Fund and the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University.

Dr. Levenson teaches courses on a wide range of topics, including global music studies, historical performance practice, musical borrowing, and music, gender, and sexuality. As a harpsichordist and organist, she values the integration of performance with teaching and research. Dr. Levenson first pursued her interests in early music performance and interdisciplinary scholarship as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley where she received a Bachelor of Arts in music and English literature. She holds a PhD in Musicology from Cornell University.