Giulia Accornero (Yale University), “Sounding Climatic Determinism in the Medieval Islamicate World” (Council on Middle East Studies)

Giulia Accornero is a music theorist who specializes in media theory and the global history of music theoretical practices. Her research focuses in particular on early Arabic music theory and the ways in which it has shaped past and present discourse in Europe and North America. Recent articles also examine how new and old media—from music notation, to amplification techniques, to music production software—as well as audile techniques predicate new modes of listening to music and identifying its elements.