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    Sarah Koval is assistant professor of music at the University of Mississippi, where she teaches the core music history survey, graduate music research methods, and a special topics class on music and medicine. Her research focuses on musical practices of everyday life, particularly in early modern England, with methodologies drawn from material culture, the history of science, sound studies, and book history. Her current book project showcases the many ways music was written by hand into books full of recipes for both food and medicine. Koval serves as cochair of the AMS Notation, Inscription, and Visualization Study Group.


  • Vol. 16 no. 1 (2026)

    A Collaborative Timeline

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    How do we teach a music history survey in a way that balances addressing canonical works with exploring historically excluded repertoire? Moreover, how do we undertake such a task without expending all our fleeting time and resources? In this article, we share our experiences with TimelineJS, a multimedia digital-humanities tool we have successfully used in…