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Théodora Psychoyou
FR, GR
| Formed in Athens, Tours, Paris and Rome, Théodora Psychoyou is Associate Professor in music and musicology at Sorbonne Université, and currently director of IReMus (Institut de recherche en musicologie) and the Collegium Musicæ institute (Sorbonne). She holds a Ph.D. in Music and Musicology at the University of Tours and a “habilitation à diriger les recherches” at Sorbonne University; she has been a fellow at Villa Medici–French Academy in Rome, member of the RISM group (early music manuscripts, 16th-18th c.) at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, an associate researcher at the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, and a board member of the Société française de musicologie. She currently serves as Vice President of the IMS (2022-2027). Her research focuses on the history of music theory in the 17th and early 18th centuries in France. Her current projects concern the fortunes and functions of the ancient heritage in musical thought in the early modern era, the quarrel between Ancients and Moderns in music and its ramifications, cultural history of Latin music in the Greek isles, and finally the relationship between music and science in the 17th century, and the history of musical acoustics. |
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