Christian Thomas Leitmeir#
| Membership Number: | 3510 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/member-of-staff/christian-leitmeir |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015-: Associate Professor of Music, University of Oxford; Tutorial Fellow in Music, Magdalen College, Oxford
- 2007-2015: Senior Lecturer in Music, Bangor University
- 2006: Research Associate, Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
- 2003-2006: Long-Term Frances A. Yates Research Fellow, The Warburg Institute, University of London
Fields of Scholarship
- Sacred Music (in the context of liturgy, devotion and theology)
- Musical Notation (especially in relation to theory, composition and performance)
- Interplay of music, words and images
- Philology and Editing
- Music Theory in the Middle Ages
- Renaissance Polyphony in Continental Europe
- Viennese Classicism (Mozart and contemporaries)
- Music between Late-Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism (especially Richard Strauss and his contemporaries)
- Music Historiography and Early-Music Scholarship in the 19th and 20th centuries
Honours and Awards
- HONORARY POSITIONS AND DUTIES
- 2004–2013: Editor of Musik in Bayern (journal of the Gesellschaft für Bayerische Musikgeschichte)
- 2008-present: Council Member and Treasurer to the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society
- 2008-present: Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Alamire Foundation
- 2010-2018: Co-Editor of Plainsong and Medieval Music (contracted by Cambridge University Press)
- 2013-present: Member of the Editorial Board of Music Theory & Analysis
- 2015-present: Member of the Editorial Board of PMMS Monographs (Cambridge University Press)
- AWARDS
- 2010 Amplonius Fellowship at Erfurt University (2 months)
- 2005 Award of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen for the best thesis in the School of Arts and Cultural History 2003-4
- 2000–3 PhD scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
- 2002–3 Visiting post-doctoral member of Queen’s College, Oxford
- 1999 Hilda Margaret Watts Prize for the best result in the MMus examinations at King’s College London
