Music Professor Awarded Jerome Roche Prize
Emma Dillon, an assistant professor of music, has been named the recipient of the 2003 Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical Association. Established in 2001, this prize recognizes a distinguished article written by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career.
Professor Dillon received the award for her article “The Art of Interpolation in the Roman de Fauvel,” which was published in the Journal of Musicology. The chair of the awards committee described the article as “beautifully written and imaginatively presented” and praised Professor Dillon’s “conceptualization of the role of music within a narrative context.”
A noted scholar of medieval music and musicology, Professor Dillon is currently at work on “The Sense of Sound: Music and Meaning in Thirteenth-Century France” supported by a Fletcher Jones Foundation research fellowship. She is the author of Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel and has published articles and reviews in Fauvel Studies, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and Plainsong and Medieval Music. Professor Dillon completed her Ph.D. at Oxford University.