Júlia Coelho

Júlia Coelho

Júlia Coelho is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology and a DMA student in Vocal Performance, with related fields in Early Music and in Music Theory. She has completed Master’s Degrees in Musicology and Opera at the University of Missouri (2018) and at the Conservatory of Avellino in Italy (2013). She completed her B.A. in Philosophy (2010) with a minor in foreign languages in her home country, Portugal.

 

Currently, she is the editor of the journal Harmonia (2021–22), works as a doctoral teaching assistant in Music History, and serves both in the CoM Dean's Advisory Council on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and in the UNT Graduate Student Council as a Music Senator.

Coelho’s research interests range from 16th- to 18th-century vocal music to music and rhetoric, history of music theory, music and politics, and disability studies. She has presented papers at national and international conferences on Claudio Monteverdi and W. A. Mozart, and has given lecture-recitals on Thomas Campion and on Portuguese music, history, and culture.

She has musicology publications in English and Italian, namely a collaborative chapter entitled “The Art of Liminality: Sea, Saudade, and Liminality,” (The Liminal Loop, 2022 [forthcoming]); two peer-reviewed articles, “Joachim Burmeister, Wolfgang Schonsleder, and Christian Bernhard: Theory or Theories of Musical-Rhetorical Figures?” (Harmonia, 2021) and “Claudio Monteverdi and L'Orfeo, Favola in Musica: Character Construction and Depiction of Emotion” (Philo-Musica, 2019); a book translation from Italian to English Cerone and Schonsleder: Musical Interpretation of Text in Vocal Polyphony (2018); and an annotated translation from English to Italian “Charles Burney’s Account of Händel’s Commemoration in 1784 on Messiah” (Haendel—Il Messiah, 2015). In addition, she has published a  book review in Portuguese of Fox Keller’s Gender Philosophy book, Reflections on Gender and Science (Philosophica, 2010), and translated peer-reviewed articles pertaining to Social Education studies.

Other than her research activities, she teaches individual lessons and group classes on music, voice, and piano, and performs weekly at the Denton Unitarian Universalist Fellowship as the Song / Hymn Leader, where she often accompanies her singing at the Gothic harp, psaltery, or keyboard. She was recently featured throughout the album Codex Praxis (2020) by Kory Reeder, performing gothic harp and singing.