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Dr. Nicole Grimes

Associate Professor (Music)

 NICOLE.GRIMES@tcd.ie

 


Biography

Dr Nicole Grimes is Associate Professor in Music at Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses at the intersection between German music criticism, analysis and aesthetics from the late eighteenth century to the present. She is currently working on a multi-year project called "The Expansive Canvas: Large-Scale Form in the Music of Women Composers." She is the General Editor of the New Cambridge Music Handbooks; a member of the editorial boards of Music Analysis (since 2015) and the Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland (since 2024); and a member of the advisory boards of the Women in Global Music Network (WIGM), Irish Musical Studies, and the Institute of Austrian and German Music Research. Her monograph Brahms's Elegies: The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century German Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2019) was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2022 Danijela Kulezic-Wilson Book Prize of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, and was one of nine Notable Music Books of 2019 selected by Alex Ross of the New Yorker. For full details of her books and other publications, see nicolegrimes.org A graduate of Trinity College Dublin (PhD in Historical Musicology, 2008, "Brahms's Critics: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Critical Reception of Johannes Brahms"), Nicole also studied historical musicology at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, and Humboldt University, Berlin. She joined Trinity in August 2024 to take up a post as Associate Professor of Music. Before then, she served on the faculty at the University of California, Irvine (2016-2024), and earlier on the faculties of University College Dublin, Keele University, and Royal Holloway, University of London. Nicole is passionate about uncovering the music of women composers that has been lost to history, an enterprise that is central both to her teaching and her research. She welcomes queries from those wishing to pursue postgraduate and postdoctoral research in this area.

Representations

Details Date
Peer Reviewer, "Musicologica Austriaca" journal
Expert Reviewer:Austrian Science Fund/Österreiscischer Wissenschaftsfond
Peer Reviewer: Music Theory Spectrum
Expert Reviewer: Austrian Academy of Sciences/Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaft
Peer Reviewer, Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewer, Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewer, "Music & Letters" journal
Peer Reviewer: "Ethnomusicology Ireland" journal
Nicole Grimes, The Socio-Political Faces of Clara Schumann on German Film, 1944"2008, Nineteenth Century Music Review, 21, (1), 2024, p110 - 137, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Manifestations of Death in the Music of Johannes Brahms in, editor(s)Wolfgang Marx , Music and Death, New York, Boydell, 2023, pp93 - 109, [Nicole Grimes], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Nicole Grimes, Reuben Phillips, Rethinking Brahms, Oxford University Press, 2022, 1 - 584pp, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
Hearing Rihm hearing Brahms: Symphonie `Nähe fern" and the Future of Nostalgia in, editor(s)Nicole Grimes and Reuben Phillips , Rethinking Brahms, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp375 - 395, [Nicole Grimes], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Introduction" Rethinking Brahms in, editor(s)Nicole Grimes and Reuben Phillips , Rethinking Brahms, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp1 - 6, [Nicole Grimes and Reuben Phillips], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Giving Voice to Spectralism in the Music of Donnacha Dennehy in, editor(s)Amy Bauer, Liam Cagney, and Will Mason , Oxford Handbook to Spectral and Post-Spectral Music, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2021, [Nicole Grimes], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Formal Innovation and Virtuosity in Clara Schumann"s Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17 in, editor(s)Joe Davies , Clara Schumann Studies, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp141 - 166, [Nicole Grimes], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Musical Romanticism as a Historiographical Construct in, editor(s)Benedict Taylor , The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp327 - 342, [Nicole Grimes], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Nicole Grimes, "`An die Hoffnung": A Musical Footnote to Ali Smith"s Spring, Musicological Austriaca: A Journal for Austrian Music Studies, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Nicole Grimes, Review article: Lee Rothfarb and Christoph Landerer (trans.), Eduard Hanslick"s Vom Musikalisch Schönen, Musicological Austriaca: A Journal for Austrian Music Studies, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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Nicole Grimes, Review of The Songs of Clara Schumann, by Stephen Rodgers , Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, 2024, Review, IN_PRESS
Nicole Grimes, Review of Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall: Between Public and Private Performance, by Katy Hamilton and Natasha Loges (eds) , Music and Letters, 2016, Review, PUBLISHED
Nicole Grimes, Review of Brahms Among Friends: Listening, Performance, and the Rhetoric of Allusion, by Paul Berry , Music and Letters, 2016, Review, PUBLISHED
Nicole Grimes, Review of Free but Alone. A Life for Poetic Music, by Constantin Floros , Nineteenth Century Music Review, 9, (2), 2012, p341"46 , Review, PUBLISHED
Nicole Grimes, Review of Eduard Hanslick zum Gedenken. Bericht des Symposiums zum Anlass seines 100. Todestags, by Theophil Antonicek, Gernot Gruber, Christoph Landerer (eds) , Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, 7, 2012, p67-76 , Review, PUBLISHED
Nicole Grimes, Review of Brahms and His World, by Walter Frisch, Kevin C. Karnes (eds) , Music Analysis, 31, (1), 2011, p140"150 , Review, PUBLISHED
Nicole Grimes, Review of Music Criticism and the Challenge of History. Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna, by Kevin C. Karnes , Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, 4, 2009, p79-83 , Review, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Danijela Kulezic-Wilson Book Prize, Society for Musicology in Ireland, 2022, Honorable Mention for Brahms's Elegies 2022
Alex Ross (The New Yorker), Nine Notable Music Books of 2019 listed Brahms's Elegies 2019
Lloyd Hibberd Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation publication subvention for Brahms's Elegies 2019
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship, European Commission ID 274448, €226,024 2011-2014
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Fellowship, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 2007-2008
Trinity College Dublin, Taylor Bequest 2005

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Women and music in the European art music tradition. Music of the German-speaking 18th & 19th centuries. Music analysis. Cultural history. Issues of gender in music history and music theory. The intersection between music, literature, and philosophy. Music aesthetics. German Studies. The history of ideas.