Dr Sarah Moynihan is a Lecturer in Music Theory and Analysis at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford. She completed her AHRC-funded PhD on Jean Sibelius’s music at Royal Holloway, University of London, supervised by Professor J. P. E. Harper-Scott. She holds a BA Hons in Music from St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford and an MA in Composition from University of Bristol (Distinction).
Research Interests:
Sarah’s research interests include the history of music theory and analysis, nineteenth and early twentieth-century music, and Nordic music.
Her PhD thesis examined analytical approaches to Jean Sibelius’s music – James Hepokoski’s ‘sonata deformations’, in particular – to create a new analytical model that uses Theodor W. Adorno’s material Formenlehre to reform the accepted view of Sibelius as an ‘early modernist’.
Publications:
Sarah’s prize-winning conference paper, entitled ‘Sibelian Rotational Projection: Erfüllung in Sibelius’s Työkansan Marssi’, will be published in the forthcoming Society for Music Analysis newsletter. She is currently revising her PhD thesis for publication.