Samantha Arten, Ph.D. in Musicology

I am a music historian and a Lecturer in Musicology at Washington University in St. Louis, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and Maryville University, as well as a faculty affiliate in the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University. I hold a Ph.D. in musicology from Duke University (2018); my dissertation, “The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Protestant Ideology, and Musical Literacy in Elizabethan England,” argued that the English Reformation’s primary hymnal attempted to advocate for musical literacy for the common people. My research is highly interdisciplinary, approaching Reformation sacred music and English music printing in relation to theology and book history. In addition to my work as a music historian, I am also a professional soprano with a focus in early music, singing primarily in liturgical church choirs and with Baroque ensembles.

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