Faculty Accomplishments

Mueller, A. (2023). Blackness and whiteness in The Magic Flute: Reflections from Shakespeare studies. In Jessica Waldoff, ed., The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute (pp. 252-272). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108551328

Mueller, A. (2021). Roses Strewn Upon the Path: Rehearsing Familial Devotion in Late Eighteenth-Century German Songs for Parents and Children. Frontiers in Communication (Research Topic: "Songs and Signs: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cultural Transmission and Inheritance in Human and Nonhuman Animals"). Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.705142

Mueller, A. (2021). Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood. University of Chicago Press.

Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood was awarded a 2020 publication subvention by the American Musicological Society.

Mueller, Adeline presented her paper “Touching Melodies: Tactile Music Notation at the Vienna Institute for the Blind” at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society in 2023. She shared tactile replicas of one of the Institute's experimental notation systems, prepared by Luke Jaeger (Technical Project Administrator, Fimbel Maker and Innovation Lab).

Mueller, A. Presented “The Impossible Oratorio: Rejection, Refusal, and Blind Agency on the Eighteenth-century Stage” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (St. Louis MO, March 2023).

Mueller, A. Presented “Persuasive Performance: The Rhetoric of Blind Students' Concerts in Vienna, 1808-1824” at conference “Chamber Scenes: Musical Space, Medium, and Genre c. 1800” (Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San Jose CA, February 2023).

Adeline Mueller (Music) gave an invited lecture in the Musicology Colloquia series at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, entitled “Touching Melodies: Tactile Music Notation at the Vienna Institute for the Blind, ca. 1819” (November 8). Luke Jaeger (Technical Project Administrator, Fimbel Maker and Innovation Lab) prepared three-dimensional replicas of an experimental music notation system illustrated in one of Mueller's nineteenth-century sources; these were shared with the audience at the lecture.

Gave two public lectures in November and December as part of the Pioneer Valley Symphony’s Fall 2020 Discovery Series, “Hidden Figures: Women Composers Through the Ages.” Mueller was in conversation with the Symphony's Music Director Tianhui Ng (Music), who hosted the series.

Presented papers at the international symposium Folk Music Research, Folkloristics, and Anthropology of Music in Europe: Pathways in the Intellectual History of Ethnomusicology (Vienna, University for Music and Performing Arts) and the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (Boston).