Nancy November

Nancy Rachel November FRSNZ is a New Zealand academic, and is professor of musicology at the University of Auckland, specialising in late 18th- and 19th-century chamber music.

After a BSc in mathematics in 1994 and a Bachelor of Music with honours in musicology a year later, both from Victoria University of Wellington, November travelled to Cornell University to complete an MA in 1999 and a 2003 PhD titled Haydn's vocality and the ideal of “true” string quartets.^[1][2] November studied baroque violin with Peter Walls and received instruction from the New Zealand String Quartet. November moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor in 2022.^[1]

November is interested in the socio-cultural context of historical music. In 2020 November was awarded a Marsden grant to investigate the lives of 19th century amateur women musicians, playing scaled-down versions of orchestral pieces in the home.^[3] She has also published on cross-disciplinary history pedagogy.^[1]

November has been a Humboldt Fellow,^[4] and in 2020 was awarded a Humboldt Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives, for a project aimed at "advanc[ing] music history research from Australasian and East Asian perspectives and link[ing] it with German approaches with the aim of developing a cross-cultural musicology".^[5] In 2022 she became vice president of the New Zealand Association of von Humboldt Fellows.^[6] Also in 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.^[7]

Books

• Nancy November (2021). Beethoven's String quartet in C-sharp minor, op. 131. New York City: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-005922-4. OCLC 1226859257. Wikidata Q115490469.
• Nancy November, ed. (2020). The Cambridge companion to the 'Eroica' symphony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-42258-1. OCLC 1126383613. OL 28069114M. Wikidata Q115490473.
• Nancy November, ed. (2022). String quartets in Beethoven's Europe. Brookline: Academic Studies Press. ISBN 978-1-64469-789-4. JSTOR 10.2307/j.ctv2fwfz7k. OCLC 1285370361. Wikidata Q115490471.
• Nancy November (2013). Beethoven's theatrical quartets: opp. 59, 74, and 95. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-51676-2. OCLC 871257252. Wikidata Q115490474.
• Nancy November (2021). Beethoven's symphonies arranged for the chamber: sociability, reception, and canon formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-92420-7. OCLC 1253101926. OL 34784173M. Wikidata Q115490477.
• Nancy November (2017). Cultivating string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-78327-232-7. OCLC 972862981. OL 28635708M. Wikidata Q115490475.
• Nancy November, ed. (2020). Performing history: approaches to history across musicology. Boston: Academic Studies Press. ISBN 978-1-64469-354-4. OCLC 1149161906. OL 28101112M. Wikidata Q115490476.

Scholarly articles

• Nancy November (2020). "Academic Life in the Measured University: Pleasures, Paradoxes and Politics". Higher Education Research and Development. 39: 623. ISSN 0729-4360. OCLC 8805842645. Wikidata Q115490481.
• Nancy November; Sean Roderick Sturm; ’Ema Wolfgramm-Foliaki (14 January 2021). "Performing history: culturally sustaining pedagogies for indigenous students in the historical disciplines". Higher Education Research and Development. 40 (1): 104–116. doi:10.1080/07294360.2020.1852183. ISSN 0729-4360. Wikidata Q113278871.
• Nancy November (2010), Loops of literacy: promoting writing skills in large undergraduate classes through online group work (PDF), Wellington: Ako Aotearoa, OCLC 746499420, Wikidata Q115490478
• Nancy November; Karen Day (12 February 2016). "Using Undergraduates' Digital Literacy Skills to Improve Their Discipline-Specific Writing: A Dialogue". International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 6 (2). doi:10.20429/IJSOTL.2012.060205. ISSN 1931-4744. Wikidata Q113260895.
• Nancy November; Phillippa McKeown-Green. "Creating and integrating video clips to develop music historical literacy skills". Fontes artis musicae. 66: 323. ISSN 0015-6191. JSTOR 26871452. OCLC 8871006040. Wikidata Q115490480.

• November's inaugural professorial lecture in September 2022
• Soundtrack to my life: Nancy November (New Zealand Herald, paywall)