Personal Info

E-mail: alexandra.buckle(at)magd.oxon.org

Tel: 07971413448

Web Link: http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/people/staff-listings/academics/alexandra-buckle-bmus-london-mst-oxon..html

Academic Background:

Before coming to Bristol, Alexandra was Junior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Music at Worcester College, Oxford, and an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. As well as teaching at St Anne’s this year, Alexandra will be a Lecturer in Music at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and will also be teaching in the Music department at the University of Bristol.

Alexandra completed her undergraduate degree at Royal Holloway, University of London, and her Master’s at Magdalen College, Oxford. Her Doctorate focuses on music and patronage in late medieval England and is titled ‘Music and liturgy, patronage and authority: the College of St Mary, Warwick in the later Middle Ages’. Alexandra recently completed the Oxford Institute of Learning’s PG DipLATHE (Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education). In her dissertation for this, she looked at aspects of studying music at undergraduate level, and teaching in higher education. On completion, she was made a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

In addition to her academic work, Alexandra enjoys outreach work and has most recently spoken on BBC Radio 3 about Thomas Tallis, and been the Music Consultant for English Heritage’s new project on Henry II’s Great Tower at Dover Castle. Alexandra is a keen flautist and holds the DipABRSM, several Grade 8s (piano, flute and voice), and a recital certificate from her days as a student at the Junior School of Birmingham Conservatoire.

Teaching Interests:

Undergraduate:

I teach the full History I course for the BA in Music at Oxford (Music History from 900 to 1700). Occasionally, I like to break out and teach topics relating to Beethoven and Mahler.

Graduate:

As above, but I don’t teach graduates at the moment.

Research Interests:

Medieval and Renaissance English Music (especially Drama, Patronage, and The Reformation); History of Institutions (especially Collegiate Churches); Iconography; Biography.

Selected Publications:

• Alexandra Buckle, ‘Fit for a King’: Music and Iconography in Richard Beauchamp’s Chantry Chapel’, Forthcoming Early Music (2009)
• Alexandra Buckle, ‘An English Composer in Royal and Aristocratic Service: Robert Chirbury, c.1380–1454’, Plainsong and Medieval Music 15/2 (2006), 109–22
• Alexandra Buckle and David Fallows, ‘Power, Leonel, Lionel’ in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Personenteil 13 (2005), 862–69
• Alexandra Buckle and David Fallows, ‘Pycard’ in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Personenteil 13 (2005), 1085–87
• Alexandra Buckle, ‘Music for Edward the Confessor’, Early Music Today, October 2005
• Alexandra Buckle, ‘Music, Piety and Patronage: Richard Beauchamp and the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick’, Early Music Review, June 2005