Dr Jacomien Prins
| Research Fellow in Philosophy and Musicology, Wolfson College jacomien.prins@philosophy.ox.ac.uk Wolfson College |
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Research Interests
Renaissance philosophy. Philosophy of music.
Career & Education
| 2009 Junior Research Fellow (Wolfson College) Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford. |
| 2009 Rubicon Grant NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). |
| 2009 PhD, Utrecht University (Research Institute for History and Culture (OGC). Thesis: ‘Echoes of an invisible world: Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on cosmic order and music theory’. |
| 2003 Researcher and lecturer dep. of Musicology, Philosophy and Renaissance Studies, Utrecht University. |
| 2001 MPhil, Utrecht University. Thesis: ‘Francesco Patrizi’s musical universe’. |
| 1995 Civica Scuola di Musica, Milano, specialization Historically informed performance / Recorder. |
| 1993 Mmus, Utrecht University. Thesis: ‘Nelson Goodman on the language of music’. |
| 1993 Conservatory Constantijn Huygens, Zwolle, diploma Recorder. |
Books
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With Maude Vanhaelen (eds.), Sing aloud harmonious spheres: Renaissance Variations on the Pythagorean Theme of World Harmony (Classical Presences: Oxford University Press, under negotiation, scheduled to appear in 2013).
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Marsilio Ficino’s «Timaeus» commentary: scientific speculations of a Renaissance interpreter (I Tatti Renaissance Library, Harvard University Press, under contract - forthcoming 2013).
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Echoes of an invisible world: Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on cosmic order and music theory (Alblasserdam: Haveka, 2009/academic publication; forthcoming commercial edition, Leiden: Brill, 2012).
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With Mariken Teeuwen (eds.), Harmonisch labyrint: De muziek van de kosmos in de westerse wereld, Hilversum: Verloren, 2007.
Selected Articles
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‘La quête musicale de Charles Burney: des trésors cachés qui « badinent avec grâce»’, De la conversation au conservatoire: Scénograhie et dramaturgie des petit genres (1680-1780), in: Symposiums des Collections de la République des Lettres), Aurélie Zygel-Basso and Kim Gladu (eds.), Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, scheduled to appear in 2012
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‘The music of the pulse in Marsilio Ficino’s Timaeus commentary’, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Manfred Horstmanshoff, Helen King, and Claus Zittel (eds.), Intersections vol. 25, Leiden: Brill, 2012, 393-414.
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‘Early modern angelic song in Francesco Patrizi’s L’amorosa philosophia’, Early Modern Medievalisms: The Interplay between Scholarly Reflection and Artistic Production (Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies) vol. 15, Alicia Montoya, Wim van Anrooij and Sophie van Romburgh (eds.)), Leiden: Brill, 2010, 111-35.
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‘A philosophic music therapy for melancholy in Marsilio Ficino’s Timaeus commentary’, Melancholie - zwischen Attitüde und Diskurs: Konzeptionen in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Andrea Sieber and Antje Wittstock (eds.) Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2009, 119-43.
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‘Mirrors as transmitters of divine harmony in Marsilio Ficino’s Compendium in Timaeum’, The Book of the Mirror, Miranda Anderson (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 80-91.
Recent Research Project
Marsilio Ficino’s Timaeus commentary: scientific speculations of a Renaissance interpreter (a critical edition of the Latin text of the 1496-edition along with an English translation).
Recent Presentations
Berlin 2011 ‘Francesco Patrizi, Marin Mersenne and the Destruction of the Music of the Spheres’
Oxford 2011 ‘Healing, health and harmony in Marsilio Ficino’s Timaeus commentary’
Athens 2011 ‘The search for a lost ancient harmonic paradise in Paul Hindemith’s Die Harmonie der Welt’
Tours 2010 ‘Francesco Patrizi, Bernardino Telesio and the dissolution of the ‘musica mundana’
Québec 2010 'Charles Burney’s Musical Tours in Europe: Private Chamber Music Recitals in Eighteenth-Century Homes and Gardens’
Venice 2010 ‘Francesco Patrizi and the musical origin of language’
Oxford 2010 ‘Francesco Patrizi, unanswered love and the power of music’
Conference Organisation
“Sing aloud harmonious spheres: Music, philosophy, and the order of the universe in the Renaissance” (Thursday 12 May until Sunday 15 May 2011, Venezia)