Nancy Rachel November is a New Zealand academic, and is professor of musicology at the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn ...

, specialising in late eighteenth and nineteenth century chamber music.

Academic career

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 Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of New Zealand Parliament, Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Z ...

, November travelled to

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to complete an MA in 1999 and a 2003

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titled'' Haydn's vocality and the ideal of “true” string quartets''. November studied baroque violin with Peter Walls and received instruction from the New Zealand String Quartet. November moved to the

, rising to full professor in 2022. November is interested in the socio-cultural context of historical music. In 2020 November was awarded a

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to investigate the lives of 19th century amateur women musicians, playing scaled-down versions of orchestral pieces in the home. She has also published on cross-disciplinary history pedagogy. November has been a Humboldt Fellow, and in 2020 was awarded a Humboldt Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives, for a project aimed at "advanc ngmusic history research from Australasian and East Asian perspectives and link ngit with German approaches with the aim of developing a cross-cultural musicology". In 2022 she became vice president of the New Zealand Association of von Humboldt Fellows.

Selected works

;Books * * * * * * * ;Scholarly articles * * * * *

References

External links

November's inaugural professorial lecture
in September 2022
Soundtrack to my life: Nancy November
(

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