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Elizabeth Markham is
a Research Professor of Ethnomusicology and is also associated with the International Center for the Study of
Early Asian and Middle Eastern Musics. She works on musics of East Asia
and is interested particularly in Sino-Japanese modal theory and in the deciphering
and analysis of the earliest musical notations for Japanese court song and
Buddhist chant. Wider interests include prosody and melody, and comparative
music theory.
Before coming to Arkansas
in 2000, she held various research positions in Europe: Alexander von Humboldt
Research Fellow in Oriental Studies at the University of Würzburg (Germany),
Research Fellow in Music at St. Catharine's College (Cambridge, England),
Leverhulme Research Fellow in Far Eastern Historical Musicology at The Queen's
University of Belfast (Ireland). She spent a year of fieldwork as a novice
in the Gagaku orchestra of Kasuga Taisha in Nara (Japan), and has made other
ethnomusicological and archival field trips to Japan and China. She is involved
in two international projects: the Tang Music Project (publication series
Music from the Tang Court, Cambridge University
Press) and the Ancient Asian Music Preservation Project at the Library of
Congress.
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