Sadie Menicanin

Postdoctoral Fellow - IMV stab
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Email s.c.menicanin@imv.uio.no
Room 318
Available hours Thursdays 14-16
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Visiting address Sam Saelands vei 2 0371 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1017 Blindern 0315 Oslo
Other affiliations Centres directly under the University Board (Student)

Academic interests

I joined the University of Oslo in October 2023 as a postdoctoral fellow in the Music and Nature research initiative. My research combines historical and interpretive methodologies to investigate music, space, and place around 1900, particularly as related to urban environments and ideas of nature. I attend to resonances between material places and spaces as imagined and represented in music. My work intersects disciplines including musicology, sound and visual studies, environmental history, and cultural geography. Broader interests include music for film and visual media, sensory studies, hermeneutics and interpretation, Austro-German modernisms, and opera dramaturgy and staging.

The working title of my postdoctoral research project is “Sounds from the Vienna Woods: Musical Encounters with the Forest at Vienna’s Limits, c. 1875-1914.” With attention to local environmental history, my project will both address the Wienerwald as a sounding environment and newly read forest settings in Viennese art song and opera of around 1900.

My dissertation, “A Cultural Geography of Gardens in Early Twentieth-Century Viennese Opera,” newly approaches Viennese modernism by engaging with material place and designed landscapes. Combining historical and interpretive research, I explore connections between gardens as represented on stage and built gardens in Vienna c. 1900-1925.

Courses taught

  • MUS2001 Music in Film (IMV)

Background

  • PhD, Historical Musicology, University of Toronto (2023)
  • MA, Historical Musicology, University of Toronto (2017)
  • BMus, Music History and Piano, McGill University (2015)

Fellowships

  • Chancellor Jackman Graduate Fellow in the Humanities, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto (2021-22)

Grants

  • Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship--Doctoral, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2017-2020)

Awards

  • Graduate Student Paper Prize, American Musicological Society New York State-St. Lawrence Chapter Meeting (April 2022)

  • Junior Doctoral Fellow, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto (2017-2022)

Conference Activity 

  • "Franz Schreker's Der Geburtstag der Infantin at the Garden Theatre of Vienna's Kunstschau 1908." American Musicological Society, New York State-St. Lawrence Chapter. Rochester, NY. April 2022.
  • "Acoustic Spaces in Schoenberg's Gardens." American Musicological Society, Annual Meeting. Virtual. November 2021.
  • "Re-Hearing the Garden in Schoenberg's Erwartung." American Musicological Society, New York State-St. Lawrence Chapter. Virtual. April 2021. 
  • "Grappling with Beauty in Berg's Lulu." In "Roundtable: The Work of Beauty in Opera." Canadian University Music Society Conference. June 2019. 
  • "Acousmatic Lullabies: The Power of the Female Voice in Recent Film Scoring." Music and the Moving Image. NYU Steinhardt. May 2017.
Tags: Musicology, Cultural history, Environmental Humanities, Music and nature, Sound Studies, Music of the Twentieth Century, Opera Studies, Modernism, Music History

Publications

“The Garden as Interior: Reading Schoenberg’s Gardens in Context.” Music & Letters 104, no. 3 (2023): 405-442.

“Review: Pierpaolo Polzonetti, Feasting and Fasting in Opera: From Renaissance Banquets to the Callas Diet. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.” Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies 23, no. 2 (Summer 2023): 108-109.

Co-authored with Sherry Lee. “Acoustic Space, Modern Interiority, and Korngold’s Cities.” In Korngold and His World. Edited by Kevin C. Karnes and Daniel Goldmark, 67-88. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.

  • Menicanin, Sadie (2023). The Garden as Interior: Reading Schoenberg's Gardens in Context. Music & Letters. ISSN 0027-4224. 104(3), p. 405–442.

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  • Menicanin, Sadie Caroline (2023). "Pleasure Gardens, Audible Landscapes: 'Venedig in Wien' and Schreker's Elysium".
  • Menicanin, Sadie (2023). Review: Pierpaolo Polzonetti. Feasting and Fasting in Opera: From Renaissance Banquets to the Callas Diet. Gastronomica - The Journal of Critical Food Studies. ISSN 1529-3262. 23(2), p. 108–109.

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Published Oct. 2, 2023 12:00 PM - Last modified Oct. 25, 2023 2:59 PM