Berta Joncus
Lecturer
Music
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr. Berta Joncus is Senior Lecturer in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. From 2004 to 2008 she was a lecturer in music at St Anne’s and St Hilda’s colleges of Oxford University, where she also completed a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2004-07) and her DPhil degree (1999-2004). Before studying at Oxford, she was an editor at the New Grove Dictionary of Music, working with Stanley Sadie. She took her MA at the University of Bonn, Germany and worked earlier as professional singer after finishing a performance degree at the Franz Schubert Conservatory of Vienna.
Research Interest
Her research focuses on the eighteenth-century London stage, European vocal music, European popular music before 1800 and, more generally, how vocal stars of the past produced their music and were produced by it. Her research is informed by her background as a singer and her work as a music critic for the BBC. Through her teaching and research, she seeks to cross boundaries of eras, disciplines, media and traditional musical scholarship.
Publications
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Ballad opera and British timbre: Henry Fielding’s 'The Mock Doctor' Joncus, Berta and Rogers, Vanessa L.. 2014. Ballad opera and British timbre: Henry Fielding’s 'The Mock Doctor'. In: Herbert Schneider, ed. Die Praxis des Timbre in verschiedenen europäischen Kulturen: Eine musikalische Praxis zwischen Oralität und Schriftlichkeit. (40) Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, pp. 101-140. ISBN 978-3-487-15072-7
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"The Stage's Glory": John Rich (1692-1761) Joncus, Berta and Barlow, Jeremy, eds. 2011. "The Stage's Glory": John Rich (1692-1761). Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press. ISBN 9781611490329
