Musicologist

Emily created and teaches "The History of Sacred Music," "Gregorian Chant for Beginners," "Beyond the Notes," and three levels of Music Theory courses for the Sacred Music Institute of America.

Learn more about Emily's first-person lecture-recital as Clara Schumann here.

Emily served as music supervisor and historical music consultant, as well as a pianist and singer, for Eternity Box Films' feature film Wieland, which featured a score consisting entirely of pieces composed before 1865.  She also presented on the process of adaptation at the Charles Brockden Brown Society's conference in the UK and the American Literature Association's conference in Boston.  Watch the full film here.

She has presented "Willie, Johnny, and the Vacant Chair," a lecture-recital on Civil War era parlor music, for the Company of Military Historians and several Civil War roundtables.  Emily has also published articles on this subject in the Homefront Herald and At Home and in the Field .

Emily founded and directed the Old Economy Singers in period music concerts drawn from the museum's extensive archives and has performed at all three Harmony Society historical sites as Gertrude Rapp.  She received the Communal Studies Association's research fellowship for her work on the Harmony Society's hymnody and reconstructed the Harmonists' 1817 Christmas cantata as her undergraduate honors thesis.  Her work on Harmonist music has been published in several journals and presented at national conferences.

Learn more about Emily's first-person lecture-recital drawn from Miss Lind's American tour repertoire here.