Elisabeth Le Guin
Elisabeth Le Guin | |
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| Born | July 25, 1957 |
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| Mother | Ursula K. Le Guin |
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| Thesis | "As My Works Show Me To Be": Physicality as Compositional Technique in the Instrumental Music of Luigi Boccherini (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel Heartz |
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| Discipline | Musicology |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
Elisabeth Covel Le Guin[1] (born July 25, 1957) is an American musicologist and cellist. Originally the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra's principal cellist in the 1980s, she later got her PhD in Music at the University of California, Berkeley, and she worked at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1997 until 2022. A Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is the author of Boccherini's Body (2005) and The Tonadilla in Performance (2013).
Biography
[edit]Le Guin was born on July 25, 1957; her parents are science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin and historian Charles Le Guin.[2]
She attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she obtained BMus in Cello in 1979.[3] She performed as a cellist for decades;[3] she was part of Artaria String Quartet, Boston Early Music Festival, Concerto Amabile and Smithsonian Concerto Grosso, and she became the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra's principal cellist in 1986.[4] She later did graduate studies at University of California, Berkeley, where she obtained an MA in 1992 and PhD in Music in 1997; her doctoral dissertation "As My Works Show Me To Be": Physicality as Compositional Technique in the Instrumental Music of Luigi Boccherini was supervised by Daniel Heartz.[1]
In 1997, she joined the University of California, Los Angeles.[5] She won the 2003 Alfred Einstein Award and 2007 Noah Greenberg Award.[6] In 2005, she published Boccherini's Body, which focuses on the work of Classical-era composer Luigi Boccherini.[7] She won the 2015 Otto Kinkeldey Award for her book The Tonadilla in Performance (2013),[6] which its publisher called the "first major study of the tonadilla in English".[8] In 2022, she retired from UCLA and became professor emeritus.[5]
She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Research in 2019,[3] providing funding for Si Yo Fuera Una Canción, a bilingual podcast about the musical interests of people in Santa Ana, California.[5] She was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.[9]
Bibliography
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Le Guin, Elisabeth Covel (1997). "As My Works Show Me To Be": Physicality as Compositional Technique in the Instrumental Music of Luigi Boccherini (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley.
- ^ "Le Guin, Elisabeth 1957-". Encyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on May 28, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
- ^ a b c "Elisabeth Le Guin". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
- ^ "Alumni benefit". Novato Advance. January 4, 1989. p. B-5 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "Elisabeth Le Guin". The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
- ^ a b "Past Recipients Archive". American Musicological Society. Archived from the original on May 28, 2025. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
- ^ "Boccherini's Body by Elisabeth Le Guin - Hardcover". University of California Press. Archived from the original on March 3, 2025. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
- ^ "The Tonadilla in Performance by Elisabeth Le Guin - Hardcover". University of California Press. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
- ^ "Elisabeth Le Guin". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
- ^ Converse, Ralph D. (2007). "Review of Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology". Music Educators Journal. 94 (2): 50–51. ISSN 0027-4321. JSTOR 4539677. Archived from the original on March 3, 2025. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
- ^ Howard, Patricia (2006). "Fleshly Pursuits". The Musical Times. 147 (1897): 112–114. doi:10.2307/25434431. ISSN 0027-4666. JSTOR 25434431.
- ^ Mangani, Marco (2008). "Review of Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology". Il Saggiatore musicale. 15 (2): 355–359. ISSN 1123-8615. JSTOR 43029990.
- ^ Parker, Mara (2007). "Review of Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology". Notes. 63 (3): 606–608. ISSN 0027-4380. JSTOR 4487835.
- ^ Rumph, Stephen (2008). "Music and Philosophy: The Enlightenment and Beyond". Journal of the Royal Musical Association. 133 (1): 128–143. ISSN 0269-0403. JSTOR 30161419.
- ^ Winn, James A. (2006). "Review of Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology". Studies in Romanticism. 45 (4): 643–649. doi:10.2307/25602078. ISSN 0039-3762. JSTOR 25602078.
- ^ Cowling, Erin Alice (April 1, 2015). "The Tonadilla in Performance: Lyric Comedy in Enlightenment Spain". Comedia Performance. 12 (1): 216–221. doi:10.5325/comeperf.12.1.0216. ISSN 1553-6505 – via Scholarly Publishing Collective.
- ^ Head, Matthew (2015). "The Growing Pains of Eighteenth-Century Studies". Cambridge Opera Journal. 27 (2): 175–186. ISSN 0954-5867. JSTOR 26291206.
- ^ Goldman, Dianne L. (2017). "THE TONADILLA IN PERFORMANCE: LYRIC COMEDY IN ENLIGHTENMENT SPAIN". Eighteenth Century Music. 14 (1): 127–129. doi:10.1017/S1478570616000361. ISSN 1478-5706 – via Cambridge University Press.
- 1957 births
- Living people
- American classical cellists
- American women classical cellists
- 20th-century American cellists
- 21st-century American musicologists
- American women musicologists
- San Francisco Conservatory of Music alumni
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles faculty
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences