Biography

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Julia Dokter holds a Ph.D in musicology  (Utrecht University, 2016; thesis entitled "Tactus and Tempo in Organ Music from the German Baroque), a D.Mus in organ performance (McGill University, 2014, class of Hans-Ola Ericsson), a M.Mus in organ performance (McGill University, class of John Grew), a M.A. in music theory (McGill University), and a B.Mus (McMaster University).  She teaches part-time at Georgia State University (music history) and is an Artist Affiliate (organ performance) at Agnes Scott College.

Working at the conjunction between performance and musicology, her interests focus on the historical performance practice of baroque music. She has been  recognized by the American Musicological Society by the presentation of the "Noah Greenberg Award" (2013), and the American Bach Society by the presentation of  the "William H. Scheide Research Grant" (2014) for her research in this area. 

Her book "Tempo and Tactus in the German Baroque: Treatises, Scores, and the Performance of Organ Music" has recently published by Rochester University Press, in April 2021. 
https://boydellandbrewer.com/tempo-and-tactus-in-the-german-baroque-hb.html


Publications and Research: 
  • Article: “Proportion in J.A. Reincken’s An Wasserflüssen Bablylon.” Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschedenis. Scheduled date: November 2021.
  • Book publication: “Tactus and Tempo in German Baroque Music.” Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2021. 
    https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781648250187/tempo-and-tactus-in-the-german-baroque/
  • Conference Report: “Professionals and Amateurs: The Spirit of Kenner und Liebhaber in Keyboard Composition, Performance and Instrument Building.” University of Michigan, 9–12 May 2018. Eighteenth-Century Music (16/1, 2019). 97–99.
  • PhD Dissertation: Tactus and Tempo in Organ Music from the German Baroque: A Study of Sources and Scores.Universiteit Utrecht, December 2016.
  • DMus Thesis: Codified Tempo Changes in Michael Praetorius’ Syntagma Musicum: Michael Praetorius and Matthias Weckmann’s Organ Music. McGill University, April 2014.
  • Article: “Musical Rhetoric in Sweelinck's Sacred Keyboard Variations” Part II (Abridged Version). American Organist (March 2014). 48–55.
  • Article: “Musical Rhetoric in Sweelinck's Sacred Keyboard Variations” Part I (Abridged Version). American Organist (February 2014). 51–59.
  • Article: “Musical Rhetoric Lost in Translation: National, Religious and Linguistic Networks and the Determination of Title in Sweelinck's Organ Variations on Psalm 36”. In Networks of Music and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 92-112.
  • Assistant editor: Rachelle Taylor and David Smith, ed. Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 
  • Article: “Liturgical Music: An Ecumenical and Historical Perspective.” Musica Sacra (139/4, 2012). 29–43.
  • Article: “Muziekretoriek in Sweelincks klaviervariaties over geestelijke liederen” (II). Translated by Jan Smelik. Het Orgel (2012/6). 30-37.
  • Article: “Muziekretoriek in Sweelincks klaviervariaties over geestelijke liederen” (I). Translated by Jan Smelik. Het Orgel (2012/5). 14-23.
  • Article: “Musical Rhetoric in Sweelinck's Sacred Keyboard Variations.” Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschedenis (2011/LXI). 25-56.
 
Conference Papers and Lecture-Recitals
  • Paper Presentation: “The Transcription of Aurally Perceived Meter in Notation: Case Studies in Sweelinck to Reincken’s Organ Music.” Sweelinck Symposium, Orgelpark, Amsterdam. October 22, 2021. Online presentation.
  • Presentation: Presentation of newly published book, and short talk about tempo words. At the Online colloquium: Use, Flexibility and Modification of Time. Hosted by the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra. Sunday, May 2, 2021.
  • Paper presentation at conference presented by “The Historical Keyboard Society of North America.” The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 2018. Paper entitled Tempo Relationships in Bach’s ‘Fugue in E-flat major’ BWV 552/2, from Clavier Übung III.
  • Paper presentation at the “16th International Conference for Baroque Music.” Salzburg, Austria, July 2014. Paper entitled Codified Tempo Changes in Seventeenth Century Germany: Michael Praetorius and Matthias Weckmann. 
  • Doctoral Lecture-recital, McGill University, Jan. 24, 2014. Thesis entitled Codified Tempo Changes in Michael Praetorius’ Syntagma Musicum: Michael Praetorius and Matthias Weckmann’s Organ Music.
  • Paper presentation at the “International Conference for Historical Keyboard Music.” Edinburgh, U.K. July 2013. Paper entitled Musical Rhetoric in Sweelinck’s Sacred Keyboard Variations.
  • Lecture-recital at the “Musical, Cultural and Religious Networks in Early Modern Europe: In Celebration of Peter Philip’s 450th Anniversary.” Aberdeen, March 2011. Paper entitled Musical Rhetoric in Sweelinck’s Sacred Keyboard Variations.
  • Lecture-recital at the “Symposium: Networks of Keyboard Music c. 1600: Focus on Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Peter Philips.” Montreal, February 2011. Paper entitled Musical Rhetoric in Sweelinck’s Sacred Keyboard Variations.
 
 
Conference Organization
  • Conference entitled: “Autour du clavier d’autrefois: the Legacy of Kenneth Gilbert.” McGill University, July 2012.
  • Conference entitled: “Symposium: Networks of Keyboard Music c. 1600: Focus on Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Peter Philips.” McGill University, February 2011.
 
Published Reviews 
  • Marshall, Kimberly. “Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries.” Fontes Artis Musicae (62/2, 2015). 148–151. 
  • Judd, Robert. “Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries.” Renaissance Quarterly (68/1, 2015). 362–364.
  • Lambert, Erin. “Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries” in Sixteenth Century Journal (45/4, 2014). 1028-1030.
  • Davies, Sarah. “Philips and Sweelinck in Montréal and Aberdeen” in Early Music (39/2, 2011): 301-303. 
  • Gingras, Claude. “Julia Dokter, Organiste Complète,” La Presse (Montreal), 2010. http://www.lapresse.ca/arts/musique/musique-classique/201007/12/01-4297564-julia-dokter-organiste-complete.php  
  • Tidar, Dan. “Celebrating Kenneth Gilbert” in Early Music (January 2013). 


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