Emilie Capulet - Research & Publications

Research & Publications

Emilie Capulet holds an MA on Shakespeare's dramatic style and an interdisciplinary PhD on musical aesthetics in Modernist literature. She has expertise in performance practice(s) as an award-winning international concert pianist and musicologist.

Undertaking ground-breaking interdisciplinary research at the interface of historical enquiry, musicology, performance and intermedial/transmedial cultural studies. Her research on 'transmediality', historical and contemporary performance practice, pedagogy, and music in healthcare has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals as well as other high-impact media, international conferences and public events, including recitals and lecture-recitals, and has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Arts Council, UK and the Leverhulme Trust.

One of her recent interdisciplinary and collaborative projects on hyper-production addressed issues in musical ontology by following a practice-centered research approach and by exploring creative contemporary interpretations and reconfigurations of historical musical texts, including works by Haydn, Schubert, Chopin, Franck, Debussy and Ravel. Through non-linear editing, 3D spatial staging, immersive audio experience, and digital signal processing, the interdisciplinary and collaborative research team produced technologically mediated performances for which they received funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

She is currently the recipient of a prestigious Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a project centering on the French-Corsican composer Henri Tomasi (1901-1971), exploring the construction of cultural identity, music and political engagement, issues in auto-/biographical writing, and an assessment of diversity, class, legacy and knowledge production in Western classical music.

She is a member of the Peer Review College of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Cover of the book onWord, Sound and Music in Radio Drama.

Transmedial Perspectives on Music and Sound in Early Radio Plays in France in the 1930s: The Tangible Legacy of Le Douzième coup de minuit'

Capulet, Emilie; 2023; ‘Transmedial Perspectives on Music and Sound in Early Radio Plays in France in the 1930s: The Tangible Legacy of Le Douzième coup de

minuit’. In Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama, ‘Word and Music Studies’, edited by Jarmila Mildorf, and Pim Verhulst. Leiden: Brill.

'Watch for the laughs! The music of graphic scores'

Capulet, Emilie; 2021; 'Watch for the laughs! The music of graphic scores' in Whitaker, Julia & Tonkin Alison. Play for Health Across the Lifespan - Stories from the Seven Ages of Play. Routledge: London.

'Perspectives on Authenticity in the Representation of Classical Music in Contemporary Fiction'

Capulet, Emilie; 2019; Perspectives on Authenticity in the Representation of Classical Music in Contemporary Fiction; Representing 'Classical Music' in the Twenty-First Century

AHRC Research Network.

Creating A Rubato Layer Cake: performing and producing overdubs with expressive timing on a classical recording for ‘solo’ piano’

Capulet, Emilie; Zagorski-Thomas, Simon; 2017; ‘Creating A Rubato Layer Cake: performing and producing overdubs with expressive timing on a classical recording for ‘solo’ piano’; Journal on the Art of Record Production, vol. 11.

Preface to Vierne’s Marche Triomphale pour le Centenaire de Napoléon I, op.46

Capulet, E. (2017) ‘Vierne’s Marche Triomphale pour le Centenaire de Napoléon I, op.46’, in Preface to Study Score, Repertoire & Opera Explorer, (edited by) Dietz, Peter; Musikproduktion Jürgen Höflich; München

‘The game of chamber music in dementia music therapy’

Capulet, Emilie; 2016; ‘The game of chamber music in dementia music therapy’, in Play in healthcare for adults: using play to promote health and wellbeing across the adult lifespan, (edited by) Alison Tonkin; Routledge, London; 124-134.

‘Entropy as a Measure of Musical Contrast’

Laney, Robin; Samuels, Robert; Capulet, Emilie; 2015; ‘Entropy as a Measure of Musical Contrast’; Journal of New Music Research - Special Issue on music similarity; 193-198.

Through the looking-glass: transmediality in musicalized narratives of the Modernist period

Capulet, Emilie; 2013; ‘Through the looking-glass: transmediality in musicalized narratives of the Modernist period’, (in) Transmediality and Transculturality, (edited by) Gernalzick, Nadja & Pisarz-Ramirez, Gabriele; Universitätsverlag C. Winter; Heidelberg.

Preface to Camille Saint-Saëns' Symphony in A Major

Capulet, E. (2014) ‘Camille Saint-Saëns, Symphony in A Major (c. 1850)’, (in) Preface to Study Score, Repertoire & Opera Explorer, (edited by) Dietz, Peter; Musikproduktion Jürgen Höflich; München; i-v.

Preface to Gabriel Pierné's Viennoise (suite de valses et cortège-blues), Op. 49bis

Capulet, E. (2014) ‘Gabriel Pierné, Viennoise (suite de valses et cortège-blues), Op. 49bis’, (in) Preface to Study Score, Repertoire & Opera Explorer, (edited by) Dietz, Peter; Musikproduktion Jürgen Höflich; München; i-iv

'Street music, Virginia Woolf, and the problem of musical autonomy'

Capulet, Emilie; 2012; ‘Leaving things in a mess: street music, Virginia Woolf, and the problem of musical autonomy’, (in) Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Arts. (edited by) Ganteau, Jean-Michel & Reynier, Christine ; Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée ; Montpellier: 101-110.

Virginia Woolf – a Musical Life

Capulet, Emilie; 2009; Virginia Woolf – a Musical Life; Bloomsbury Heritage Series, Cecil Woolf Publishing: London

‘Voicing the Music in Literature: “Musicality” as a Travelling Concept’

Capulet, Emilie; 2009; ‘Voicing the Music in Literature: “Musicality” as a Travelling Concept’; European Journal of English Studies, 13.1; Routlege: Abingdon (Oxon); 79-91.

‘Beyond the Boundaries of Language: Music in Virginia Woolf’s The String Quartet’

Capulet, Emilie; 2008; ‘Beyond the Boundaries of Language: Music in Virginia Woolf’s The String Quartet’, Journal of the Short Story in English; vol. 50; Presses Universitaires d’Anger: Anger (France); 201-215.