Department of Music, University of California
Busse Berger received her Ph.D. in Musicology from Boston University in 1986. She was the winner of the American Musicological Society's Alfred Einstein Award for best article by a young scholar, she has been a fellow at the Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy in 1992-93 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 1997-98. Busse Berger has published articles on musical notation, mathematics, and the importance of memory in Medieval and Renaissance music. Her book, Mensuration and Proportion Signs: Origins and Evolution, appeared in 1993 from Oxford University Press, and she has a forthcoming book from the University of California Press on music and memory. In 2001-02 she was awarded fellowships from both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Stanford Humanities Center.
Medieval Music and the Art of Memory (forthcoming with University of California Press)
"Friedrich Ludwig, Jacques Handschin and theAgenda of Medieval Musicology" in Perspektiven auf die Musik vor 1600: Beiträge vom Symposium Neustift,/Novacella, 1998, ed. by Annegrit Laubenthal (Hildesheim: Olms, 2002)
Mensuration and Proportion Signs: Origins and Evolution. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993
"Die Rolle der Mündlichkeit in der Komposition der 'Notre Dame-Polyphonie,'" in Das Mittelalter, 3 (1998), pages 127-43
"Notation mensuraliste et autres systèmes de mesure au XIVè siècle," Médiévales, 32 (1997), pages 31-46
"The Relationship of Perfect and Imperfect Time in Italian Theory of the Renaissance," in Early Music History, 5 (1985), pages 1-28