Employees

Dr. Joshua Neumann

Expertise: Digital Musicology, Performance Studies, Opera Studies

Centre for Digital Music Documentation

Digital Academy

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Curriculum Vitae

Akademische Tätigkeiten

  • seit 2021: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Centre for Digital Music Documentation (CDMD) an der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz
  • 2018–2021: Lecturer (Innovation Academy) & Affiliate Faculty (Informatics Institute), University of Florida
  • 2018–2020: Musicology Colloquium Co-Director, Vienna Summer Music Festival
  • 2017–2018: Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Florida
  • 2017–2018: Adjunct Assistant Professor of Musicology, Shenandoah University
  • 2017: Adjunct Professor of Music, Santa Fe College
  • 2015–2016: Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Florida
  • 2012–2014: Humanities Teaching Fellow, University of Florida
  • 2011–2012: Graduate Assistant, University of Florida
  • 2008–2011: Assistant Conductor & Chorus Master, Center City Opera Theater
  • 2009–2011: Music Teacher & Boys Lacrosse Coach, Delaware Valley Charter High School
  • 2008–2009: Music Teacher, LEAP Academy University Charter High School
     

Akademische Ausbildung

  • 2016: PhD in Historical Musicology (University of Florida) zum Thema: “Toward Defining Tradition: A Statistical and Network Analysis of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera,” https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0049920/00001/pdf
  • 2016: Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities an der University of Florida
  • 2015: Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, Digital Musicology
  • 2008: Master of Music (University of Nebraska – Lincoln) zum Thema “Performance Practices in Four Puccini Arias: Tempo Choices and Choosers,” https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=musicstudent
  • 2005: Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance (Gordon College)
     

Projektleitung

  • seit 2024: Creating Schubert's Die Winterreise in Performance with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Fritz Thyssen Stiftung)
     

Mitgliedschaften in Vereinen, Verbänden, Beiräten, Gremien

  • Digital Libraries for Musicology
    • 2027: General Chair
    • 2026: Programme Chair
    • seit 2017: Programme Committee
  • Early Muse (E-Cost)
    • seit 2024
  • Theatrical Voice Research Center
    • seit 2024
  • Music Encoding Initiative
    • seit 2023: Co-Chair Digital Pedagogy Interest Group
    • seit 2020
  • American Musicological Society
    • 2026–2029: Publications Committee (Chair, 2029)
    • 2025–2028: AMS-MLA Joint RISM Committee
    • 2024: National Meeting Panel Chair, “Copyright Controversies: Evolutions and Legacies,” 2024
    • 2021–2024: Committee on Communications
    • 2018–2021: Committee on Technology
    • 2015–2017: Committee on Communications
    • 2013–2015: Committee on Membership and Professional Development
Awards
  • 2024: EarlyMuse (eCOST Action) Short Term Scientific Mission
  • 2019: American Musicological Society Thomas Hampson Award for Research and Publication in Classic Song
  • 2015: University of Florida, Doctoral Research Fellowship
  • 2015: University of Florida School of Music John D’Albora Scholarship for Excellence in Music Scholarship
  • 2015: University of Florida Presidential Service Award
  • 2013: University of Florida School of Music John D’Albora Scholarship for Excellence in Music Scholarship
  • 2013: United States Department of Education Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Italy
Publications

Articles

  • “Operatic Fandom and Recordings: Some Socio-Philological Perspectives.” The Opera Journal 58, no. 2 (2025).
  • “(Digital) Philology for/of Multiple Creative Processes: Considering Notation, Recordings, and Digital Editions.” Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology, September 26, 2025. doi.org/10.1145/3748336.3748338
  • “Building an Interpretations-Edition.” In Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2025, edited by David Lewis, Anna Plaksin, and Sophie Stremel. Knowledge Commons, 2025.  https://doi.org/10.17613/3FH8X-QTM65
  • “Musicology, Mind Palaces and Machines.” Performance Research 29, no. 6 (2024): 138–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2024.2537581.
  • “Toward a Community Model of Scholarly Editing: FAIR/CARE, Research Ethics, & Labour Visibility.” Journal of New Music Research 53, nos. 3–4 (2024): 189–207. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2024.2373049.
  • “Modelling Performance – Conceptual Realities vs. Practical Limitations in MEI,” with Richts-Matthaei, Kristina. In Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2024, edited by Anna Kijas and Margrethe Støkken Bue. Knowledge Commons, 2024. https://works.hcommons.org/records/mb7px-jtd86
  • “FAIR/CARE Principles as Normative Ethics in Digital Musicology.” In Book of Abstracts - Dhd2024, edited by Joëlle Weis, Thomas Haider, and Estelle Bunout. Zenodo, 2024. 190-3.  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10686565
  • “Joseph Haydn Werke Metadata: MEI Way.” In Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2022, edited by Ailynn Ang, Jennifer Bain, and David Weigl, 2022. https://doi.org/10.17613/7hsv-ha95
  • “Phenomena, Poiēsis, and Performance Profiling: Creative Process Analysis in Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera.” Empirical Musicology Review 12, no. 3-4 (2017): 248-268. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.18061/emr.v12i3-4.5827
  • "Data Generation and Multi-Modal Analysis for Recorded Operatic Performance." Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Libraries for Musicology. New York: ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, ACM Press, 2016. 49-52. DOI: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2970044
     

Editorships

  • Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology. 2026, forthcoming.
  • Past Executive Editor. The Opera Journal. National Opera Association. 2024 – 2025.
    • Autumn/Winter 2024: Vol. 57, no. 2.
    • Spring/Summer 2024: Vol. 57, no. 1.
  • Executive Editor. The Opera Journal. National Opera Association. 2022 – 2024.
    • Autumn/Winter 2023: Vol. 56, no. 2.
    • Spring/Summer 2023: Vol. 56, no. 1.
    • Autumn/Winter 2022: Vol. 55, no. 2.
    • Spring/Summer 2022: Vol. 55, no. 1.
       

Book Chapters

  • "Whatever Will Be, Will Be": Gender Equality and the Music of Alfred Hitchcock's
    The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).” In Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a Suburban Age, edited by Stanley C. Pelkey and Anthony Bushard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
     

Datasets

Reviews

  • Weihs, Claus, Dietmar Jannach, Igor Vatolkin, and Günter Rudolph. Music Data Analysis: Foundations and Applications. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. Music & Letters, 99, no. 3 (August 2018).  https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcy060
  • Evans, Mark, and Mary Fogarty. Movies, Moves and Music: The Sonic World of Dance Films. Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing, 2016. Music Reference Services Quarterly 20, no. 1 (March 2017).  https://doi.org/10.1080/10588167.2017.1269592
  • Jones, Meg Leta. Ctrl + Z: The Right to Be Forgotten. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2016. Published with the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, 2016.
  • Seaman, Christopher. Inside Conducting. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013. Music Reference Services Quarterly 16, no. 1 (March 2014).  https://doi.org/10.1080/10588167.2014.871963
  • Link, Dorothea. Arias for Vincenzo Calvesi: Mozart’s First FerrandoMiddleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2011. "Arias for a Tenor from Mozart's Vienna.” Notes. 70, no. 2: 321-325.
     

Peer Review Reports

  • McGinn, Claire. Expressive timing and mechanical instruments: exploring temporal idiomaticity in some music box performances [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations, 2 not approved]. Open Res Europe 2022, 2:113.  https://doi.org/10.21956/openreseurope.16113.r32764

 

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