About the Authors
- About the Authors
shanti nachtergaele is a Vanier Scholar and PhD student in musicology at McGill University. Her primary research focus is on the history of the double bass and its techniques and performance practices. She has previously published articles in Early Music and The Online Journal of Bass Research and has presented at the Music and the Moving Image and American Musicological Society conferences, among others. Also an active performer on double bass and violone, she specializes in historically informed performance and has played with ensembles such as the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Toronto), American Bach Soloists (San Francisco), and Accordes! (Oxford).
graziella seminara is an associate professor at the Università degli Studi di Catania, where she is director of the Center for Bellini Studies and teaches History of Modern and Contemporary Music and Musical Dramaturgy. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Bellinian Studies Bulletin and has written monographs on Jean-Philippe Rameau (L’Epos, 2001) and Alban Berg (L’Epos, 2012). Her numerous essays on twentieth-century musical theater and the relationship between images and music in cinema have appeared in such journals as Contemporary Music Review and the volume Lo sguardo obliquo. Il teatro musicale di Corghi e Saramago (Ricordi-Lim, 2015).
felicity wilcox lectures in Music and Sound Design at the University of Technology, Sydney. As a professional composer she has contributed soundtracks to over sixty film and television productions and has received commissions for concert works for leading Australian festivals and ensembles. Her scholarly research focuses on music for multimedia and gender in music. She has published on the film music of A. R. Rahman, the concert music of Ennio Morricone, and gender equity in screen music in Australia, informed by her own career and her advocacy as co-founder and chair of the Gender Equity Committee of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (2016–2020). Her new book is the edited collection Women’s Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound (Routledge, forthcoming).
