Katherine Butler, BSc

Katherine Butler is Assistant Professor in Music at Northumbria University. Her research focuses on the musical culture of early modern England, from the myths and stories that shaped perceptions of music, to music's roles in politics and society, and its physical dissemination in print and manuscript. She is the author of Music in Elizabethan Court Politics (2015) and co-editor of Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (2019), The Heroic in Music (2022) and Elizabethan and...See more

Katherine Butler is Assistant Professor in Music at Northumbria University. Her research focuses on the musical culture of early modern England, from the myths and stories that shaped perceptions of music, to music's roles in politics and society, and its physical dissemination in print and manuscript. She is the author of Music in Elizabethan Court Politics (2015) and co-editor of Music, Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (2019), The Heroic in Music (2022) and Elizabethan and Jacobean Praises of Music (forthcoming). Her current research project explores the social significance of rounds and catch-singing, c.1550-1650. See less