Sarah Day-O'Connell

Assistant Professor of Music

General Interests
"I am writing a book on the English Canzonetta, a genre of song popular in the late 18th century. I combine musical analysis with interpretation of literary, visual, and material culture in order to explore how Joseph Haydn's canzonettas, and the canzonetta genre more broadly, participated in debates about gender, industrialization, and politics. Because I also examine ninteenth- and twentieth- century transcriptions, recordings, performance practice, and reception, the book is also an investigation into ways music changes meaning across times and cultures.

My research interests include: music and medicine; music and faith; musical authorship, borrowing, and plagiarism; performance aesthetics; history and analysis of recorded music; music about trains."

Years at Knox: 2005 to present

Education
Ph.D., Musicology, 2004, Cornell University.
M.A., Musicology, 1998, Cornell University.
B.Mus., Piano Performance and Music History, 1995, Oberlin College.

Teaching Interests
Introduction to music: a global and local perspective, listening to music in/of the 18th century, time and place in music of the 20th century, music and death, cosmopolitanism

Recent Recognition
Awards
Prize winner, Innovative Course Design Competition, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 2009.

Visiting Scholar, Department of Music, University of Chicago, 2004-2005.

Dissertation Prize, Cornell Gender Studies Program, 2002.

Kelly Prize, Graduate-Student Paper Competition, Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2001.

Spencer Prize Honorable Mention, First Year Seminars, John S. Knight Writing Program, Cornell University, May 1999. (Teacher-Student Collaboration)

Assignment Sequence Prize, First-Year Seminars, John S. Knight Writing Program, Cornell University, January, 1999.

Fellowships
Edison Fellowship, Sound Archive, British Library, London, 2007-2008.

Lilly Fellowship in Humanities and the Arts, Valparaiso University, 2002-2004.

Research Fellowship, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Spring 2002.

Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship, John S. Knight Writing Program, Cornell University, 2000-2001. (Innovative Course Design)

Recent Accomplishments
Publications
"The Clock Points its Moral to the Heart': Time and Memory in Haydn's English Canzonettas," Marie-Agnes Dittrich, Marin Eybl, Reinhard Kapp, eds., Zyklus und Prozess: Joseph Haydn und die Zeit (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2010).

"The Composer, the Surgeon, His Wife, and Her Poems: Haydn and the Anatomy of the English Canzonetta," Eighteenth-Century Music 6.1 (2009).

"‘Maidens Fair Take Warning': Fleeting Time and Perpetual Productivity in Songs of Haydn's London," Journal of Musicological Research, forthcoming.

"Destabilizing the Survey, Grounding the Topic Course: Listening to Music in/of the Eighteenth Century," American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Website "Innovative Course Design Winning Proposals," forthcoming.

Review of Joseph Haydn, Volksliedbearbeitungen, Nr. 365-429, Schottische Lieder Fur William Whyte. In Joseph Haydn Werke, Reihe XXXII, Band 5. Edited by Andreas Friesenhagen and Egbert Hiller. (Munich: G. Henle Verlag, 2005.) Eighteenth-Century Music 5.2 (2008): 257-260.

Solo piano sonata entries in Neal Zaslaw, ed. Der Neue Köchel/The New Köchel. Wiesbaden and Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, forthcoming.

Review of John Travers, Eighteen Canzonets for Two and Three Voices. Edited by Emanuel Rubin. (Middleton: A-R Editions, 2005.) NOTES: Journal of the Music Library Association 63.2 (December 2006): 435-437.

"Trios of Schoenberg and Schnittke." Taliesin Trio. Liner Notes. Ithaca: Taliesin, 2001.

"Program Music and Absolute Music," in Katherine K. Gottschalk, "Preparing College Teachers of Writing Across the Curriculum at Cornell University" in Liggett and Pytlik, eds., Preparing College Teachers of Writing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

"Schubert Piano Sonatas in B-flat major D.960 and C major D.840 ('Reliquie')." Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano. Liner Notes, Hungaroton Classic HCD 31590, 1999.

Entries (over 300) in Kathleen Abromeit, ed. Index to African American Spirituals for the Solo Voice. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Presentations
"Time and Pastime in Late Eighteenth-century English Song." Institute of Musical Research, University of London, January 2009.

"Haydn's Canzonettas on Record." Studies in Recorded Music Seminar Series, The British Library, London, January 2009.

"‘The Clock Points its Moral to the Heart': Time and Memory in Haydn's English Canzonettas," Zyklus und Prozess: Haydn und die Zeit, held at Institut für Analyse, Theorie und Geschichte der Musik, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, January 2009.

"Haydn, the Hunters, and the Anatomy of the English Canzonetta." American Musicological Society, Nashville, November 2008.

"Haydn, the Hunters, and the Anatomy of the English Canzonetta." North American British Music Studies Association, York University, Toronto, July 2008.

"Integrating 'Survey' and 'Topic' Course Designs." Teaching Music History Day, Midwest American Musicological Society and the Pedagogy Study Group of the American Musicological Society, DePauw University, Greenville, Indiana, September 2008.

"Femininity and the Heart of a Frog: Fragmented Bodies in Haydn’s English Songs." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2008.

"Teaching Writing with Sequences of Assignments." Faculty Workshop, Knox College, 2006, 2007.

"K. Anthony Appiah's Cosmopolitanism and the Liberal Arts Music Curriculum." American Musicological Society, Los Angeles, California, 2006.

"New Contexts for Haydn's Canzonettas." College Music Society, Quebec City, Canada, October 2005.

"The Steelband in Culture and Performance." Christ College Symposium Series, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, 2003.

"Singing the Hours: Time in the English Canzonet." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Joint Congress, Los Angeles, California, July 2003.

"Plagiarism as Pedagogy." College Music Society, Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2001.

"Haydn's English Canzonettas and the Anatomy of Beauty." Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Iowa City, Iowa, and Cornell Department of Music Colloquium Series, October 2001.

"The Unheard Sigh: Haydn's Settings of Poetry by Anne Hunter and the Construction of the Private Sphere." Feminist Theory and Music, Boise, Idaho, July 2001.

Campus & Community Involvement
Member, Curriculum Committee.

Member, Steering Committee, First-Year Preceptorial.

Member, Program Committee, Mozart Society of America. Conference: "Mozart and the Keyboard Culture of his Time."

President and Co-founder, Cornell Steel Band.

Contact
309-341-7565
sdayocon@knox.edu