Faculty Accomplishments

Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood was awarded a 2020 publication subvention by the American Musicological Society.

Mueller, Adeline presented her paper “Touching Melodies: Tactile Music Notation at the Vienna Institute for the Blind” at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society in 2023. She shared tactile replicas of one of the Institute's experimental notation systems, prepared by Luke Jaeger (Technical Project Administrator, Fimbel Maker and Innovation Lab).

Mueller, A. Presented “The Impossible Oratorio: Rejection, Refusal, and Blind Agency on the Eighteenth-century Stage” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (St. Louis MO, March 2023).

Mueller, A. Presented “Persuasive Performance: The Rhetoric of Blind Students' Concerts in Vienna, 1808-1824” at conference “Chamber Scenes: Musical Space, Medium, and Genre c. 1800” (Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San Jose CA, February 2023).

Adeline Mueller (Music) gave an invited lecture in the Musicology Colloquia series at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, entitled “Touching Melodies: Tactile Music Notation at the Vienna Institute for the Blind, ca. 1819” (November 8). Luke Jaeger (Technical Project Administrator, Fimbel Maker and Innovation Lab) prepared three-dimensional replicas of an experimental music notation system illustrated in one of Mueller's nineteenth-century sources; these were shared with the audience at the lecture.

Gave two public lectures in November and December as part of the Pioneer Valley Symphony’s Fall 2020 Discovery Series, “Hidden Figures: Women Composers Through the Ages.” Mueller was in conversation with the Symphony's Music Director Tianhui Ng (Music), who hosted the series.

Presented papers at the international symposium Folk Music Research, Folkloristics, and Anthropology of Music in Europe: Pathways in the Intellectual History of Ethnomusicology (Vienna, University for Music and Performing Arts) and the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (Boston).

Native American and Indigenous Studies Mellon Award by Five Colleges, Incorporated (FCI) and the Gathering at the Crossroads project, for a residency project with Native composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate leading to the creation of a new course and the first ever full-length Chickasaw opera, Shellshaker. The project is for one year. This funding is made possible thanks to support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

Concluded a pandemic trilogy of virtual operas with "A Survivor's Odyssey", staged in UnReal and performed live on the newly developed TuttiRemote platform on September 21, 2021 with White Snake Projects. Focused on the social issues brought to the fore by the pandemic, this latest installment worked with multiple Boston community organizations to highlight the rise of intimate partner violence.

Hosted a libretto workshop on September 22 - 25, 2021, with Lila Palmer (American Lyric Theatre) on Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's groundbreaking opera, Shell Shaker, an opera written and performed completely in Chickasaw.