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Barbara Haggh-Huglo
Professor, Musicology
Musicology & Ethnomusicology Division
B.A. in German, University of Nebraska at Lincoln; B.A. in Music, M.M. in Musicology, Ph.D. in Musicology, University of Illinois at Urbana
Barbara Haggh-Huglo's many areas of interest derive from her fascination with medieval and Renaissance sources. Her dissertation on music in late-medieval Brussels led to further archival studies of music and musicians in the Low Countries and northern France and the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece. She then developed a secondary area in medieval chant and liturgy, with an emphasis on offices for the Virgin Mary and saints as well as ordinals, and then a third area in medieval theory and its manuscript sources.
The recipient of grants from the Fulbright-Hays Foundation, then ACLS, the American Philosophical Society, British Academy, IREX, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leverhulme Foundation, NEH, and Université Libre de Bruxelles, Dr. Haggh-Huglo has published more than seventy articles (see RILM), an edition of the two earliest offices for St. Elizabeth of Hungary, three collections of essays mostly on archival topics (Musicology and Archival Research, Brussels 1993; Essays on Music and Culture in Honor of Herbert Kellman, Paris 2001; Ars musica septentrionalis, Paris 2011), the proceedings of the 2006 and 2009 meetings of the IMS Study Group Cantus Planus (the latter due out in 2012), and she was a major contributor to several exhibition catalogues. She is at different stages in preparing books on the 500-year history of a Marian office, the ninth-century Carolingian music treatise Musica disciplina, and two royal ordinals from Dijon and Ghent, as well as an edition of the plainchant sung at meetings of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
Dr. Haggh-Huglo also publishes regularly with her husband, Michel Huglo (see his biography). Their collaboration resulted in a new interpretation of the meaning and destination of the famous manuscript of Parisian 13th-century polyphony, "F" (Revue de musicologie 2004), and they are preparing an article on the musical significance of the design of Charlemagne's chapel in Aachen.
Barbara Haggh-Huglo has served as Program Chair, US Representative to the Directorium, and Vice President of the International Musicological Society, Chair of the IMS Study Group Cantus Planus and Chair of the AMS Capital Chapter. She serves on the editorial boards of two book series, Historiae and Musicalia medii aevi, and the periodicals Journal of the Alamire Foundation, Musica disciplina, and Plainsong and Medieval Music. She is also on the boards of the online projects CANTUS and RELICS.
For more information, visit Barbara Haggh-Huglo's homepage.
