Overview
Andrew Hicks’ research focuses on the intellectual history of early musical thought from a cross-disciplinary perspective that embraces philosophical, cosmological, scientific and grammatical discourse in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and spans the linguistic and cultural spheres of Latin, Greek, Persian, and Arabic. His first book, (Oxford University Press, 2017), won the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson book award (2018) and the Society for Music Theory's Emerging Scholar book award (2018). He collaborated with Fr. Édouard Jeauneau on John Scottus Eriugena’s Commentary and Homily on the Gospel of John (CCCM 166, Brepols 2008), and he is currently preparing the first editions of William of Conches’ Glosulae super Priscianum (Brepols) and (with Irene Caiazzo) the Glosae super Macrobium (Brepols). His published essays range across the history of music theory, late ancient and medieval Pythagoreanism, the reception of Martianus Capella, textual criticism, and musical metaphors and modalities in Classical Persian literatures. He won the 2018 Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin for research on his next book titled The Broken Harp: Listening Otherwise in Classical Persian Literature.
Hicks is a member of the Departments of and , the Director of the , and a member of the Graduate Field of , the , and the . He served as the House Professor-Dean of on Cornell's West Campus from 2019–2025. He regularly leads graduate seminars in the history of music theory, medieval Latin literature, Latin paleography and codicology, medieval cosmology, philosophical commentaries, and musical thought in medieval Arabo-Persian cultures, and he teaches undergraduate courses in music history and theory. He is an associate editor of the, co-editor of the , and was co-editor of the (2018–2023). He also serves on the editorial board of .
Publications
Books
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- . Ed. Édouard Jeauneau and Andrew Hicks. Corpus christianorum. Continuatio mediaeualis, 166. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008.
- Guillelmi de Conchis Glosae super Macrobium. Ed. Irene Caiazzo and Andrew Hicks. Corpus christianorum. Continuatio mediaeualis. Turnhout: Brepols (in progress).
- Guillelmi de Conchis Glosulae super Priscianum. Ed. Andrew Hicks and Édouard Jeauneau. Corpus christianorum. Continuatio mediaeualis. Turnhout: Brepols (in progress).
- The Broken Harp: Listening Otherwise in Classical Persian Literature (book project in progress).
Articles
- “Boethian Music Theory.” In The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, 2nd edition, ed. John Marenbon (Cambridge, in progress).
- “Khunyagar/Mutrib.” In Soundbites: Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern Sound and Literature, a special issue of Diacritics, ed. E. Born, A. Hicks, and S. Pinet (in progress).
- “Nos consentientes Helperico: Contrary Motion in Twelfth-Century Natural Philosophy.” In Le filosofia del XII secolo. Nuovi approcci, diverse prospettive, ed. Luca Bianchi, Irene Caiazzo, et al. (Brepols, in preparation).
- “On the Transmigration of Soul Diagrams.” In Marginal Music: Minuscule Texts and Liturgical Practices in the Early Medieval West, ed. Sam Barrett, Susan Rankin, and Giulio Minniti (Brepols, in preparation).
- (co-authored with Jonathan Morton) “Philosophies: Cosmos and Politics, Harmony and Disharmony.” In , ed. Helen Deeming and Elizabeth Eva Leach, 55–79 (Bloomsbury Press, 2023).
- "Music and the Pythagorean Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages." In , ed. Aurélien Robert, Irene Caiazzo, and Constantinos Macris, 82–110 (Leiden: Brill, 2022).
- “Reading Texts within Texts: The Special Case of Twelfth-Century Lemmata.” 12 (2022): 69–92.
- “Power, Nature, Body, Soul, Music” In , ed. Julia Jorati, 49–55. Oxford Philosophical Concepts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- "Mysticism’s Musical Modalities: Philosophies of Audition in Medieval Persian Sufism." In , ed. Reinhard Strohm, 103–125. Proceedings of the British Academy 223. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- "The Regulative Power of the Harmony of the Spheres in Medieval Latin, Arabic and Persian Sources.” In , ed. Penelope Gouk, James Kennaway, Jacomien Prins, and Wiebke Thormählen, 33–45 (New York: Routledge, 2018).
- “.”&Բ;Mediaeval Studies 78 (2016): 1–64.
- “Editing Medieval Commentaries on Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii: A Synopsis Traditionis.” In , ed. Elisabet Göransson, Gunilla Iversen, et al., 138-159. Toronto: Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies, 2016.
- “.”&Բ;Music Theory and Analysis 3 (2016): 1–26.
- “Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.” In , ed. Carl Huffman, 416–434. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- In The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature, ed. David Townsend and Ralph Hexter, 307–334. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- “.” Journal of Medieval Latin 18 (2008), 292–305.
Reference works, reviews, and miscellaneous
- “De anima mundi in Timaeo Platonis.” In Thinking Music: Global Sources of the History of Music Theory, ed. Thomas Christensen, Lester Hu, and Carmel Raz (University of Chicago Online Publication Service, in production).
- “In Memoriam Edouard Jeauneau (1924–2019).” 30 (2020): ix–xv.
- “Preface” to , ed. Michael W. Herren and Giovanni Mandolino, v–vi. Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaeualis 167. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020.
- “Going Global, in Theory” (with David E. Cohen, Roger M. Grant, Nathan J. Martin, Caleb Mutch, Carmel Raz, Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Felix Wörner, and Anna Zayaruznaya). , 2019.
- “.” In The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, ed. Karla Pollmann, Willemien Otten, et al., 174–176. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Entries on Alypius, Aristides Quintilianus, Bacchius Geron, Barbad, barbat, chang, Gaudentius, huniyagar, music, organ, qayna, surnay, and tanbur for the , ed. Oliver Nicholson and Mark Humpheries (Oxford University Press, 2018).
- “ADzԾ De musica,” “Aureliani Reomensis Musica disciplina,” and “Claudii Ptolemaei Harmonicorum libri tres” for , ed. H. Grimm, M. Fald-Fuhrmann, et al., 35–37, 49–51, and 402–403. Kassel: Baerenreiter, 2017.
- , Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis 237, Turnhout: Brepols 2010. The Journal of Medieval Latin 22 (2012): 323–328.
- “Editing the Glosulae super Prisciani Librum constructionum of William of Conches.” .
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