Written by: Samantha Everton, Innovation & Research Communications Contributor

University of Utah faculty members Jane Hatter, Elizabeth Craft, and Catherine Mayes have all authored books focusing on fine arts research. Each author has worked tirelessly to compile their work and concentrate it into text, and the U celebrates every researcher’s effort to share their studies with a broader community.

Composing Community in Late Medieval Music: Self-Reference, Pedagogy, and Practice

Composing Community in Late Medieval Music: Self-Reference, Pedagogy, and Practice, written by Jane Hatter, Associate Professor in the School of Music, examines connections between self-referential repertoire from the years 1450 to 1530, as well as similar self-referential creations for painters’ guilds, revealing musicians’ agency in forming the first communities of early modern composers.

“[In this book], I show how composers built and promoted their professional community,” Hatter explained, “I point out remarkable parallels between these diverse compositions and self-promotional activities in professional guilds of painters and illuminators.”

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Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage

Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage, by University of Utah Associate Professor Elizabeth Craft, discusses how legendary actor, dancer, singer, playwright, lyricist, composer, and producer George Cohan and his works shaped the American cultural landscape.

“I spent many weeks in archives in New York City and across the United states, where I read scripts with handwritten markings on them, perused photographs, sifted through bruiness correspondence and newspaper reviews, and studied orchestral parts,” Craft shared about her research process for this text, “[Cohan] eludes categorization, and the breadth of his work spans contemporary academic disciplines, which made this a deeply interdisciplinary and endlessly fascinating project.”

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Hungarian Dances and Musical Life in Eighteenth-Century Vienna

Written by Catherine Mayes, Associate Professor in the School of Music, Hungarian Dances and Musical Life in Eighteenth-Century Vienna highlights the diversity of everyday musical experiences in Enlightenment Vienna and examines the critical impact of gender and class on cross-cultural encounters in the eighteenth century.

Mayes wrote, “I wrote this book in a very clear and accessible style, with limited use of technical music vocabulary, so that it could reach a wide audience of music, dance, cultural, and social historians of the eighteenth century.”

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