Rebecca Cypess

Biographic Data

ID5899740
NAMERebecca Cypess
GIVEN NAMESRebecca
FAMILY NAMECypess
SIGNATURECYPESS R
AFFILIATIONSRutgers, the State University of New Jersey
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Four Centuries of Women's Musical Salons

    Open AccessJacqueline Avila, Rebecca CypessEDITORBOOKFour Centuries of Women's Musical…2026

    For centuries, women have organized and hosted social gatherings known as 'salons,' which have served as sites of women's creativity and agency in the arts, sciences, and letters – especially music. This volume offers new understandings of women's musical salons across four centuries from North America, Latin America, Europe, North Africa, and the Ottoman Empire, foregrounding an often-overlooked platform of women's musicianship in cross-cultural…

  • The Eighteenth-Century Musical Salon Hostess as a Model for Academic Leaders

    Rebecca Cype, Rebecca CypessARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies2026

    I entered academic administration while researching musical salons of the eighteenth century. Therefore, I came to see the salonnière and the academic administrator as analogous in some respects, despite their very different contexts. This article explores ways in which salon sociability and academic administration overlap, particularly as administrators strive to strike a balance between leadership and self-effacement that helps all members of t…

  • Arrangement Practices in the Bach Tradition, Then and Now

    Rebecca Cype, Rebecca CypessARTICLEJournal of Musicological Research2020

    Despite the increased use of period instruments in modern-day conservatories and concert life, many classical musicians continue to make their careers by playing early music on “modern” instruments. In such performances, aspects of the esthetic impulse of the music can always be conveyed. In adapting early music for modern instruments, it is helpful to think about the adaptation as an “arrangement,” and to seek out ways of capturing the esthetic …

  • Can Musical Machines Be Expressive? Views from the Enlightenment and Today

    Steven Kemper, Rebecca Cype et al.ARTICLELeonardo2019References: 3

    How can music produced by automated technologies be expressive? Transitive theories of expression dominated eighteenth-century ideas of automated music, and many contemporary designers of robotic instruments adhere to these ideas, increasing sonic nuance to make their instruments seem more like expressive human performers. A listenercentered understanding of expression—an "intransitive" perspective—allows us to see automatic instruments as capabl…

  • Sara Levy's World

    Open AccessRebecca Cypess, Rebecca Cypes et al.EDITORBOOKSara Levy's World2018

    A rich interdisciplinary exploration of the world of Sara Levy, a Jewish salonniŠre and skilled performing musician in late eighteenth-century Berlin, and her impact on the Bach revival, German-Jewish life, and Enlightenment culture.

  • Biagio Marini

    Rebecca Cype, Rebecca CypessARTICLEMusic and Letters2017

    Biagio Marini is widely recognized as one of the most important composers of the early seventeenth century. Although his instrumental works, many of which boast a highly virtuosic and experimental approach, have received more attention from scholars and performers than his vocal works, he was a prolific composer in a wide range of genres, both vocal and instrumental. Marini’s surviving oeuvre includes, among instrumental works, polyphonic canzona…

  • Singing Games in Early Modern Italy

    Rebecca Cype, Rebecca CypessARTICLEMusic and Letters2016

    Journal Article Singing Games in Early Modern Italy: The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi . By Paul Schleuse Get access Singing Games in Early Modern Italy: The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi . By Paul Schleuse . pp. 384 . Music and the Early Modern Imagination. ( Indiana University Press , Bloomington and Indianapolis , 2015 . £34. ISBN 978-0-253-01501-3 .) Rebecca Cypess Rebecca Cypess Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…