Clare Bokulich’s research focuses on the interconnectivity of music genres in the fifteenth century, particularly the ways in which musicians systematically crossed generic boundaries.
Clare Bokulich’s research focuses on the interconnectivity of music genres in the fifteenth century, particularly the ways in which musicians systematically crossed generic boundaries by quoting secular songs in masses, subsuming liturgical chant into the context of forme fixe chansons, and organizing motets into substitute mass cycles. Her work interrogates contemporary discussions of genre and genre hierarchy in addition to engaging with modern genre theory and historiography.
She is also interested in the expressive potential of silence and has presented work on the use of silence in Miles Davis’s canonic album Kind of Blue and the intersection of silence and non-musical articulations in Wagner’s Parsifal.
Clare is the recipient of a Whiting Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship and the Lieberman Fellowship at Stanford University, where she also received the University’s Centennial Teaching Award and the Chair’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
