Karen Desmond
Professor Of Music at Maynooth University
Maynooth, Ireland
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Top SchoolKaren Desmond is a Professor of Music at Maynooth University with over a decade of academic experience investigating medieval music, particularly the intellectual and aesthetic practices of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Her research blends traditional source criticism and close reading with digital-humanities methods and big-data approaches to rethink concepts of novelty, invention, and cultural change in early music. She has held appointments at Brandeis and McGill (as a Banting/SSHRC fellow) and teaches courses that connect musicology to identity, historiography, and interdisciplinary theory. Trained as a PhD musicologist (NYU) and a pianist, she pairs rigorous archival expertise with practical musical insight, and her background in systems analysis and web/database development earlier in her career gives her an unusual fluency in computational methods for humanities research.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Latin, Latin at City University of New York, The Latin-Greek InstituteGraduate School of Arts and Science; Ph.D, Musicology, Graduate School of Arts and Science; Ph.D, Musicology at New York UniversityA.L.C.M., Piano performance, A.L.C.M., Piano performance at London College of MusicB. Mus. (hons.), Music, B. Mus. (hons.), Music at University College Cork, National University of Ireland
Github Skills (24)
music-composition10
notation10
pypi10
music10
javascript9
music-notation9
svg9
musicxml9
python8
toolkits8
encoding7
placement2
image-viewer2
image-processing2
image2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MeasuringPolyphony/measuring_polyphony_jekyll
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 59 pushes, 5 comments in 4 years 6 months
MeasuringPolyphony/mp-music-files
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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