Deborah Kauffman

Faculty

Professor of Music History and Literature, Music Graduate Coordinator

Location Frasier Hall 122B
Headshot of Deborah Kauffman.

Biography

After earning B.M. and M.M. degrees in piano performance at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of Illinois, Dr. Kauffman completed the D.M.A. degree in Early Music at Stanford University. In addition to her position as Professor at UNC, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the international Journal of Musicological Research from 2001 to 2020.

Dr. Kauffman鈥檚 research interests center around the music of the French Baroque and the musical repertory of the Maison de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr, which is the subject of her recent book, Music at the Maison de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr (Routledge, 2019). In 2014, she was invited by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique to participate in the International Colloquium 鈥淕uillaume-Gabriel Nivers (ca.1632鈥1714), musicien de la R茅forme catholique sous le r猫gne de Louis XIV,鈥 held by the French government in celebration of the 300thanniversary of Nivers鈥檚 death; a publication of the papers presented at the Colloquium is currently in preparation for publication.

Dr. Kauffman has presented her research as a Distinguished Lecturer at the University of California at Santa Barbara (2002) and has read papers at the Biennial International Conferences on Baroque Music (Cremona, Italy, 2018; Canterbury, UK, 2014; Southampton, UK, 2012; Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2010; and Manchester, UK, 2004), and at national meetings of the American Musicological Society in San Antonio (2018), Louisville (2016), San Francisco (2011), Philadelphia (2009), Seattle (2004) and Kansas City (1999).

Publications

Music at the Maison royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr (Routledge, 2019)

鈥淣颈惫别谤蝉鈥檚 petits motets: Styles and adaptations,鈥 in Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, musicien de la R茅forme catholique sous le r猫gne de Louis XIV. Edited by C茅cile Davy-Rigaux. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. [in preparation]

鈥淕uillaume-Gabriel Nivers鈥檚 plain-chant musical Motets in the Repertory of the Maison royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr,鈥 in Qui musicam in se habet: Studies in Honor of Alejandro Planchart. Edited by Anna Zayaruznaya, Bonnie Blackburn, and Stanley Boorman. American Institute of Musicology, 2015.

鈥淎 l鈥檜sage de ma s艙ur: The Plainchant Repertory of Saint-Cyr as Represented in F-Vm Mm. 55,鈥 in Chant and Culture: Proceedings of the conference of the Gregorian Institute of Canada(Institute of Medieval Music, 2014);

Jean Racine鈥檚 Cantiques spirituels: Musical Settings by Moreau, Lalande, Marchand, Bousset, and Duhalle (A-R Editions, 2012);

鈥淔auxbourdon in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: 鈥楲e secours d鈥檜ne douce harmonie鈥欌 (Music and Letters, 2009);

Violons en basse as Musical Allegory鈥 (Journal of Musicology, 2006);

Petits motets from the Maison royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr (A-R Editions, 2001);

鈥淧erformance traditions and motet writing at the Convent School at Saint-Cyr鈥 (Early Music, 2001);

鈥淭he Practice of Portamento in Romantic Opera鈥 (Performance Practice Review, 1992).