Selected Publications:
- Caroline Lesemann-Elliott, ‘The Nevell Manuscript: New Evidence of 17th-century Gentlewomen’s Music Book-Sharing and Education at Exiled English Convents’, Early Music (expected publication, 2024).
- Caroline Lesemann-Elliott, ‘The Blount Music Collection Revisited: New Evidence for Exiled English Convent Schools and Early Modern Musical Transfer’, Viol da Gamba Society, 16a (2022), pp.36-62
- Caroline Lesemann-Elliott, ‘Unsuitable for Evensong: Examining Exclusion and Diversity in the Repertoire of Oxford Collegiate Anglican Choirs’ in The Routledge companion to women and musical leadership: the nineteenth century and beyond, eds. Laura Hamer, Helen Julia Minors (Oxford, Routledge: In Press, expected publication Spring 2024)
- Caroline Lesemann-Elliott, ‘Regina Caeli’ in Multitude of Voyces’ Anthology of Sacred Music by Women Composers, Volume 2 Upper Voices Anthems (Stainer & Bell 2019)
- This piece is a reconstruction of an antiphon from St Monica’s English Augustinian convent in Louvain.
Selected Conference appearances:
- ‘Benedictines, Bonfires, and Basilindas: Politics, Religion, and Celebratory Music at English Convents in Exile, 1660-1700’ at the Early Modern British and Irish Catholicisms conference, Durham University, 19 July, 2023
- ‘“Souvenez Vous de Votre Amies”: Cross-Cultural Exchange at Exiled English Convent Schools in the Late Seventeenth Century’ at the 20th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Haute École de Musique de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland), 2 July, 2023
- ‘“A delicate hand on the organ”: Music Education and Disability at English convents in Exile’, History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland conference, Roehampton University (London), 28 June, 2023
- ‘Sonic Citizernship in Exile: Music & Authority at Early Modern English Convents’ at the Sounds of the Early Modern World Seminar Series, Oxford University, 12 June, 2023
- ‘“One may truely say she breathed out her soule:” Liminal Women and Spiritual Singing at Exiled English Convents, 1640-1700’ at the Catholic Record Society Annual Conference, The Bar Convent (York), July 12, 2022
- In collaboration with George Haggett (Magdalen College, Oxford) and Eliza Jane Cassey (Huddersfield University). ‘Doors, Dwellings, Devotions: Enacting an Anchoritic Rite of Enclosure on Film’ at the International Congress for Medieval Studies, University of Kalamzoo/online, May 10, 2022; 50th MedRen Conference, University of Uppsala/online, July 6, 2022
- ‘Benedictines, Bonfires, and Basilindas: Politics, Religion, and Celebratory Music at English Convents in Exile, 1660-1700’ Music, Creativity, and Culture in England, 1642-88 Conference & Concert, May 21, 2022
- In collaboration with keyboardist/Lusitano scholar Joseph McHardy. ‘From Versailles to YouTube: Encounters With Redface in French Baroque Opera, Then and Now’ at The Society for Study of French History, University of Oxford (Exeter College), April 12, 2022
- ‘Invisible female engines: Gender, Space, and Displacement in the 17th-century Parisian soundscape’ at The Spatial 18th Century, University of York/online, November 4, 2021
- ‘“Not without teares on our Neighbor’s side:” The Spatialization of Music in Exiled English convents 1624-1724’ at the Biennial Baroque Music conference, University of Birmingham/online, July 17, 2021
- ‘Wimple Wars: Music at the Centre of Controversies at the Monastery of the Glorious Assumption of Our Blessed Lady in Brussels’ at the Medieval and Renaissance Music conference (MedRen), Lisbon/online, July 7, 2021
- ‘Developing Approaches to Integration of Works by Female Composers Into Sacred Choral Repertoire: An Oxford-Based Ethnography’ at the Christian Congregational Music conference (Cuddestone, Oxfordshire), July 31, 2019
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