Musicology

Jeana earned her PhD in Musicology from the University of Florida in May 2024. Her dissertation, “Re-examining the Dismissed: Cecilia Macca and Nineteenth-Century Sicilian Sacred,” uncovers the sacred music of Macca (c. 1788-1841), the musical importance of her convent, Santa Chiara in Noto, Sicily, and the musical influence of the Neapolitan Compositional tradition, imported from her teacher, the composer Paolo Altieri.

Her specialties include late Baroque and early classical performance practice, trio sonatas, gender studies, and Neapolitan and Sicilian music of the 18th and 19th centuries. Below is a list of papers presented.

February 24, 2024: AMS New England Chapter, Winter Meeting, virtual.

“Performing the Sacred Feminine: Suor Cecilia Macca’s Settings of the Salve Regina and the Stabat Mater in Nineteenth Century Noto, Sicily”

June 28-July 2, 2023: Biennial Baroque Conference, Geneva Switzerland

“Gamba, Flute, and J. S. Bach’s Right Hand: Examples of Timbral Flexibility in the Gamba and Trio Sonatas, BWV 1027/1039.”

October 5-8, 2023: Society for 18th Century Music Biennial Conference, Denton, TX

“Unfootnoting Women.” A work-in-progress presentation.

November 9-12, 2023: American Musicological Society Annual Conference, Denver, CO

“Reexamining the Dismissed: Cecilia Macca and the “Doom” of Sacred Nineteenth-Century Sicilian Music.”