Kailan Rubinoff

Education

Biography

Kailan Rubinoff is Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, a Performance Certificate and Second Phase diploma in historical performance (Baroque and Classical flute) from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and a Ph.D. in Music from the University of Alberta. Her publications on the early music revival and eighteenth-century performance practice appear in the Journal of Musicology, Music and Politics, twentieth-century music, Early Music, the Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, and in the collections Early Music in the 21st Century (Oxford, 2024), Historical Performance and New Music: Aesthetics and Practices (Routledge, 2023), and Music and Protest in 1968 (Cambridge, 2013). She is currently writing a book on the historical performance movement in the Netherlands.

Subjects Taught

• History of Western Music I and II
• Eighteenth-Century Music
• Twentieth-Century Music
• Music and the Grand Tour
• Seminar in Music Research and Writing
• Seminar in Musicology and Ethnomusicology

Scholarly Creative/Research Activity

• The historical performance movement
• Baroque and Classical performance practices; improvisation and instrumental pedagogy
• History and reception of twentieth-century art music; Dutch music and culture
• Music and social policy
• Anthropology and ethnography of western art music cultures

Peer-Reviewed Publications 

“Professionalizing Historical Performance: The Past and Present of Early Music Education in Amsterdam.” In Early Music in the 21^st Century, edited by Mimi Mitchell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 

 “The Early Music Vocality of Cathy Berberian.” In Historical Performance and New Music: Aesthetics and Practices, edited by Rebecca Cypess, Estelí Gomez, and Rachael Lansang, 166–88. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2023. 10.4324/9781003300229-15. 

“‘Een ongeschreven boek, opgedragen aan het Nederlandsche volk’ (an unwritten book dedicated to the Dutch people): The Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis and the Promotion of Early Music Performance.” Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 68 (2018), 78–105. Special 150^th Anniversary Issue. Invited contribution. 

“Towards a Revolutionary Model of Music Pedagogy: The Paris Conservatoire, Hugot and Wunderlich’s Méthode de flûte, and the Disciplining of the Musician.” Journal of Musicology 34, no. 4 (October 2017): 473–514. 

“From Populism to Professionalization: Changing Perceptions of Handel in the Twentieth-Century Dutch Early Music Revival.” Händel-Jahrbuch 63 (2017): 189–204. 

“‘The Grand Guru of Baroque Music’: Leonhardt’s Antiquarianism in the Progressivist 1960s.” Early Music 42, no. 1 (February 2014): 23–35. 

“Orchestrating the Early Music Revival: The Dutch Baroque Orchestras and the Mediation of Commodification and Counterculture.” Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 63 (2013): 169–88. 

“A Revolution in Sheep’s Wool Stockings: Early Music and 1968.” In Music and Protest in 1968, ed. Beate Kutschke and Barley Norton, 237–54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Invited contribution. Collection won the Ruth Solie Award from the American Musicological Society for outstanding collection of essays. 

“Authenticity as a Political Act: Straub-Huillet’s Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach and the Post-War Bach Revival.” Music and Politics 5, no. 1 (winter 2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/mp.9460447.0005.103  

 “Cracking the Dutch Early Music Movement: The Repercussions of the 1969 Notenkrakersactie.”  twentieth-century music 6, no. 1 (2009): 3–22. 

“(Re)creating the Past: Baroque Improvisation in the Early Music Revival.” New Sound no. 32 (2008). Special issue on improvisation, ed. Marcel Cobussen and Mira Veselinovic-Hofman. Invited contribution. http://www.newsound.org.rs/pdf/en/ns32/7.%20Kailan%20R.%20Rubinoff.pdf 

“Between ‘Old Left’ and ‘New Left’: The Notenkrakersactie and Its Implications for the Dutch Early Music Movement.” In Rebellische Musik. Musik und kultureller Wandel um 1968, ed. Arnold Jacobshagen and Markus Leniger, 125–36. Cologne: Dohr, 2007. 

Book Reviews 

Review of Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Collective Creativity and Social Agency, edited by Tina K. Ramnarine (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Ethnomusicology vol 66 no. 3 (Fall 2022): 531–33. 

Review of Well-Tempered Woodwinds: Friedrich von Huene and the Making of Early Music in a New World, by Geoffrey Burgess (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2015). Journal of the American Musicological Society 69, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 247–53. 

Other Publications 

“De Inlijving van Josquin: Hoe een ‘Belg’ het stempel Nederlander kreeg [The Annexation of Josquin: How a ‘Belgian’ Became a Netherlander].” Tijdschrift voor oude muziek 38, no. 2 (May 2023): 36–39. Invited contribution.  

Program notes. Scharoun Ensemble Berlin. American Academy in Rome. 14–16 February 2014. 

Program notes. Scharoun Ensemble Berlin. American Academy in Rome. 8–10 March 2013. 

Program notes. Scharoun Ensemble Berlin. American Academy in Rome. 9–10 March 2012.  

“Revolutionizing Nineteenth-Century Flute Technique: Hugot-Wunderlich’s Méthode de Flûte (1804):  Part II.” Traverso 22, no. 2 (April 2010). Invited contribution.  

“Revolutionizing Nineteenth-Century Flute Technique: Hugot-Wunderlich’s Méthode de Flûte (1804):  Part I.” Traverso 22, no. 1 (January 2010). Invited contribution.