College of Liberal Arts

University of Minnesota,

Twin Cities Campus

Gabriela Currie

Assistant Professor: Musicology

• 166 Ferguson Hall
• 612/624-0261
• E-mail: ilnit001@umn.edu

Gabriela Currie received her B.A. in musicology from the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest, Romania and her M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University. Prior to her arrival at the University of Minnesota, she taught at the Eastman School of Music, New York University, and Cooper Union.

Her research interests and publications concern medieval music theory, the intersection between musical and scientific thought in the early- and pre-modern eras, iconography, and travel accounts as early ethnographies of Byzantine, Balkan, and Ottoman musical traditions. Several of her research projects have been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Association for University Women, and the Belgian-American Foundation.

Currie has presented at numerous national and international academic conferences, such as American Musicological Society, International Musicological Society, Medieval Academy of America, History of Science Society, and International Medieval Congress, Leeds (UK). She is the author of The Play of Meanings: Aribo's De musica and the Hermeneutics of Musical Thought, published in 2005, and of articles on subjects such as medieval musical cosmology, medieval Latin liturgy, and Balkan music iconography that appeared in scholarly journals as well as edited collections. Currently she is constructing a database of Post-Byzantine music iconography in the Balkan churches and preparing a book on the intersection of late scholastic natural philosophy, mathematics, theories of sound, and musical cosmologies in the works of Nicole Oresme.