Rebecca Louise Herisssone (born 12 June 1971) is Professor of Musicology at the

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Biography

Herissone has a Master of Arts degree from the

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, a Master of Music degree from the

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and a PhD from Cambridge. She held a research fellowship at

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from 1995 until 1999 and a lectureship at

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before joining the University of Manchester as a Senior Lecturer in 2006. She was appointed as a fellow of the

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in 2019. Herissone is a council member of the

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and sits on the editorial board for the journal ''

Music & Letters ''Music & Letters'' is an academic journal published quarterly by Oxford University Press with a focus on musicology. The journal sponsors the Music & Letters Trust, twice-yearly cash awards of variable amounts to support research in the music fie ...

''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Herissone, Rebecca 1971 births Living people English musicologists Fellows of the British Academy Alumni of the University of Cambridge Alumni of the University of London Academics of the University of Manchester Fellows of the Higher Education Academy