Catherine Heemann

As a Ph.D. candidate in historical musicology at The University of Texas at Austin, Catherine Heemann explores medieval music theory and pedagogy, manuscript production, diffusion, and global approaches to music studies; she is a 2024-2025 pre-doctoral research resident at the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities in Naples, Italy. Heemann has presented her work examining two literary manuscripts with unheightened neumatic notation as part of collaborative presentations that reconstruct the music of San Giovanni a Carbonara in Naples, Italy. Heemann also works as part of a research team focused on supporting Austin musicians by evaluating City programs, musicians’ concerns and challenges, and suggesting city policy changes to address those concerns. Her masters thesis, “Regula cantus firmi: an Edition, Translation, and Commentary,” studies a short fifteenth century Latin treatise on plainchant preserved in Italian manuscripts that elucidates part of the oral tradition of the Middle Ages. Heemann earned a master of music with a concentration in musicology (2019) from the University of Alabama. While at the Butler School, Heemann has instructed the three-part Music History sequence, Music and Culture, and the History of Rock Music. During her graduate studies at Alabama, she taught an interdisciplinary curriculum as a junior fellow with the Blount Scholars program, a liberal arts minor for undergraduates, of which she was also a member when she earned the bachelor of music in organ performance (2016). She held the office of co-president, musicology for the Association of Graduate Ethno/Musicology Students (AGEMS) at UT from 2022-2024 and served in multiple capacities for the American Musicological Society’s Skills and Resources in Early Musics Study Group (SREM).