Nancy Rachel November FRSNZ is a New Zealand academic, and is professor of musicology at the University of Auckland, specialising in late 18th- and 19th-century chamber music.

Nancy November
Academic background
Alma materCornell University
ThesisHaydn's vocality and the ideal of “true” string quartets (2003)
Doctoral advisorNeal Zaslaw
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland
Main interests18th- and 19th-century chamber music
socio-cultural context of music
history pedagogy

Academic career

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After a BSc in mathematics in 1994 and a Bachelor of Music with honours in musicology a year later, both from Victoria University of Wellington, November travelled to Cornell University to complete an MA in 1999 and a 2003 PhD titled Haydn's vocality and the ideal of “true” string quartets.[1][2] November studied baroque violin with Peter Walls and received instruction from the New Zealand String Quartet. November moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor in 2022.[1]

November is interested in the socio-cultural context of historical music. In 2020 November was awarded a Marsden grant to investigate the lives of 19th century amateur women musicians, playing scaled-down versions of orchestral pieces in the home.[3] She has also published on cross-disciplinary history pedagogy.[1]

November has been a Humboldt Fellow,[4] and in 2020 was awarded a Humboldt Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives, for a project aimed at "advanc[ing] music history research from Australasian and East Asian perspectives and link[ing] it with German approaches with the aim of developing a cross-cultural musicology".[5] In 2022 she became vice president of the New Zealand Association of von Humboldt Fellows.[6] Also in 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.[7]

Selected works

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Books
Scholarly articles

References

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  1. ^ a b c University of Auckland. "Academic profile: Nancy November". profiles.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  2. ^ November, Nancy Rachel (2003). Haydn's vocality and the ideal of 'true' string quartets (Thesis). ProQuest 288311223.
  3. ^ "Beethoven by arrangement". RNZ. 14 December 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  4. ^ "Prof. Dr. Nancy November | New Zealand Association of von Humboldt Fellows". www.humboldt.org.nz. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  5. ^ "Sponsored networking initiatives". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  6. ^ "New office holders for NZ Association of von Humboldt Fellows | New Zealand Association of von Humboldt Fellows". www.humboldt.org.nz. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  7. ^ "View our fellows". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
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