Nancy November
{{Short description|Professor of musicology in New Zealand}}
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| alma_mater = Cornell University
| thesis_title = Haydn's vocality and the ideal of “true” string quartets
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| main_interests = 18th- and 19th-century chamber music
socio-cultural context of music
history pedagogy
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Nancy Rachel November {{post-nominals|country=NZL|FRSNZ|size=86%}} is a New Zealand academic, and is professor of musicology at the University of Auckland, specialising in late 18th- and 19th-century chamber music.
Academic career
After a BSc in mathematics in 1994 and a Bachelor of Music with honours in musicology a year later, both from Victoria University of Wellington, November travelled to Cornell University to complete an MA in 1999 and a 2003 PhD titled Haydn's vocality and the ideal of “true” string quartets.{{Cite web |last=University of Auckland |title=Academic profile: Nancy November |url=https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/n-november |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=profiles.auckland.ac.nz}}{{cite thesis |id={{ProQuest|288311223}} |last=November |first=Nancy Rachel |date=2003 |title=Haydn's vocality and the ideal of 'true' string quartets }} November studied baroque violin with Peter Walls and received instruction from the New Zealand String Quartet. November moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor in 2022.
November is interested in the socio-cultural context of historical music. In 2020 November was awarded a Marsden grant to investigate the lives of 19th century amateur women musicians, playing scaled-down versions of orchestral pieces in the home.{{Cite web |date=2020-12-14 |title=Beethoven by arrangement |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/concert/programmes/upbeat/audio/2018777090/beethoven-by-arrangement |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=RNZ |language=en-nz}} She has also published on cross-disciplinary history pedagogy.
November has been a Humboldt Fellow,{{Cite web |title=Prof. Dr. Nancy November {{!}} New Zealand Association of von Humboldt Fellows |url=https://www.humboldt.org.nz/person/dr-nancy-november/ |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=www.humboldt.org.nz}} and in 2020 was awarded a Humboldt Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives, for a project aimed at "advanc[ing] music history research from Australasian and East Asian perspectives and link[ing] it with German approaches with the aim of developing a cross-cultural musicology".{{Cite web |title=Sponsored networking initiatives |url=https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/alumni-programmes/alumni-abroad/humboldt-alumni-award-for-innovative-networking-initiatives/sponsored-networking-initiatives |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=www.humboldt-foundation.de |language=en}} In 2022 she became vice president of the New Zealand Association of von Humboldt Fellows.{{Cite web |title=New office holders for NZ Association of von Humboldt Fellows {{!}} New Zealand Association of von Humboldt Fellows |url=https://www.humboldt.org.nz/2022/11/21/new-office-holders-for-nz-association-of-von-humboldt-fellows/ |access-date=2022-11-29 |website=www.humboldt.org.nz}} Also in 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.{{cite web |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-fellows/view-our-fellows/ |title=View our fellows |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi |access-date=29 August 2023}}
Selected works
;Books
- {{CiteQ|Q115490469}}
- {{CiteQ|Q115490473}}
- {{CiteQ|Q115490471}}
- {{CiteQ|Q115490474}}
- {{Cite Q|Q115490477}}
- {{CiteQ|Q115490475}}
- {{Cite Q|Q115490476}}
;Scholarly articles
- {{Cite Q|Q115490481}}
- {{CiteQ|Q113278871}}
- {{Cite Q|Q115490478}}
- {{CiteQ|Q113260895}}
- {{Cite Q|Q115490480}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRSJ1WbNYoY November's inaugural professorial lecture] in September 2022
- [https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/soundtrack-to-my-life-nancy-november/FAK5PY733HEDV5XG4NXJLUYHCE/ Soundtrack to my life: Nancy November] (New Zealand Herald, paywall)
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Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Category:Cornell University alumni
Category:New Zealand musicologists
Category:New Zealand women musicologists
Category:Academic staff of the University of Auckland
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Category:20th-century musicologists