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Anne Walters Robertson
Born (1952-08-01) August 1, 1952 (age 72)
Houston, Texas, U.S.
OccupationMusicologist
Awards
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisMusic and liturgy at the Abbey of Saint-Denis, 567-1567: a survey of the primary sources (1984)
Doctoral advisorCraig M. Wright
Academic work
DisciplineMusicology
Sub-disciplineMedieval music
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago

Anne Walters Robertson (born August 1, 1952) is an American musicologist who specializes in medieval music from the Early Christianity era to the Late Middle Ages. A 1991 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of The Service-Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis (1991), the winner of the 1995 John Nicholas Brown Prize, and Guillaume de Machaut and Reims (2002), which won the 2003 Otto Kinkeldey Award and 2006 Haskins Medal. She is Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music at the University of Chicago.

Biography

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Anne Walters Robertson was born on August 1, 1952, in Houston, Texas.[1] She attended St. Thomas' Episcopal School, graduating in 1970.[2] She obtained her BM (1974) and MM (1976) at the University of Houston, where she was an instructor in music from 1976 to 1977, as well as a second MM (1979) at Rice University.[1]

She later went to Yale University, where she obtained her MPhil (1981) and PhD (1984);[1] her doctoral dissertation Music and liturgy at the Abbey of Saint-Denis, 567-1567: a survey of the primary sources was supervised by Craig M. Wright.[3] She moved to the University of Chicago in 1984,[4] where she was in a visiting position in 1984.[1] She was promoted to assistant professor in 1985 and associate professor in 1990,[1] and she eventually became Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music.[4] She also served as chair of the UChicago Department of Music from 1992 to 1998, in 2008, and from 2014 to 2016, as well as dean of the Division of the Humanities from 2016 until 2023 and deputy provost for research and education from 2001 to 2004.[4]

Robertson specializes in medieval music from the Early Christianity era to the Late Middle Ages, particularly with one of her themes being the royal family of France.[4] She won two early-career scholarly article awards: the 1987 Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize[5] and 1989 Alfred Einstein Award.[6] She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991,[7] for "a study of music and ritual in medieval Reims".[1] The same year, she released the book The Service-Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, which explores the history of music and ritual in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis;[8] she won the 1995 John Nicholas Brown Prize for that book.[9] She later won the 2003 Otto Kinkeldey Award and 2006 Haskins Medal for her 2002 book Guillaume de Machaut and Reims,[10][11] a monograph on the composer Guillaume de Machaut.[12] She also won the 2007 H. Colin Slim Award for another scholarly article she wrote.[13] She was appointed Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.[14] She was president of the American Musicological Society from 2011 until 2012.[15] She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2015.[16]

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Reports of the President and of the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1992. p. 97.
  2. ^ "Saint Thomas' Episcopal Church and School Breaks Ground on Academic Building and Sanctuary Renovations". November 25, 2019.
  3. ^ Robertson, Anne Walters (1984). Music and liturgy at the Abbey of Saint-Denis, 567-1567: a survey of the primary sources (Thesis). Yale University. OCLC 18652641.
  4. ^ a b c d "Anne Walters Robertson". University of Chicago. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  5. ^ "Recent Recipients of the Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize". Medieval Academy of America. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  6. ^ "Einstein Award Winners". American Musicological Society. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  7. ^ "Anne W. Robertson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
  8. ^ "The Service-Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis". global.oup.com. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  9. ^ "Recent Recipients of the John Nicholas Brown Prize". Medieval Academy of America. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  10. ^ "Otto Kinkeldey Award Winners". American Musicological Society. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  11. ^ "Haskins Medal Recipients". Medieval Academy of America. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  12. ^ "Guillaume de Machaut and Reims". www.cambridge.org.
  13. ^ "H. Colin Slim Award Winners". American Musicological Society. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  14. ^ "Anne Walters Robertson". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  15. ^ "AMS Administration". Medieval Academy of America. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  16. ^ "Nine Women Academics Elected to the American Philosophical Society". WIA Report. May 19, 2015. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  17. ^ Berry, Mary (1996). "The Service-Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis. Images of Ritual and Music in the Middle Ages". The Journal of Theological Studies. 47 (2): 733–736. ISSN 0022-5185. JSTOR 23966226.
  18. ^ Crocker, Richard L. (1994). "The Service-Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis: Images of Ritual and Music in the Middle Ages". Speculum. 69 (1): 244–246. doi:10.2307/2864864. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2864864.
  19. ^ Everist, Mark (1993). "The Service-Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis: Images of Ritual and Music in the Middle Ages". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 46 (1): 138–144. doi:10.2307/831808. ISSN 0003-0139. JSTOR 831808.
  20. ^ Farmer, Stephen (1992). "The Service-Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis: Images of Ritual and Music in the Middle Ages". Early Music. 20 (4): 666–669. ISSN 0306-1078. JSTOR 3128034.
  21. ^ Turner, Bruno (1993). "The Service-Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis: Images of Ritual and Music in the Middle Ages". Notes. 50 (1): 105–107. doi:10.2307/898701. ISSN 0027-4380. JSTOR 898701.
  22. ^ Boogaart, Jacques (2004). "Machaut and Reims". Early Music. 32 (4): 605–608. ISSN 0306-1078. JSTOR 3519399.
  23. ^ Breko-Kustura, Hana (2005). "Review-Essays". College Music Symposium. 45: 139–146. ISSN 0069-5696. JSTOR 40374525.
  24. ^ Everist, Mark (2005). "The Horse, the Clerk and the Lyric: The Musicography of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries". Journal of the Royal Musical Association. 130 (1): 136–153. ISSN 0269-0403. JSTOR 3557460.
  25. ^ Fuller, Sarah (2006). "Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in His Musical Works". Music & Letters. 87 (1): 88–90. ISSN 0027-4224. JSTOR 3526418.
  26. ^ Göllner, Marie Louise (2005). "Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in His Musical Works". Speculum. 80 (3): 965–967. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 20463465.
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