Patricia A. Debly

Department of Music

Office: THw 137B
Tel.: (905) 688-5550 ext.3210
Internet: pdebly@spartan.ac.brocku.ca

• ($1,500.00) 8th International Congress on the Enlightenment, Bristol, England.

• (1/2 course relief) Brock University Release Time Award: Stylistic Comparison of the operas which Joseph Haydn revised for performances at Eszterhaza in 1780, Fall 1994.

• "Social Commentary in the Music of Haydn's Goldoni Operas," Metaphor -A Musical Dimension, edited by M. Kartomi and J.C. Kassler, pp. 51 - 68, Australian Studies in the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Music, Volume 1, Paddingt on, NSW, Currency Press, 1991.
• "La vera costanza: a case study for musical characterisation in Haydn's operas," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century: Transactions of the Eighth International Congress on the Enlightenment 305 (1992): pp. 1509 - 1513.
• "La vera costanza: a case study for musical characterisation in Haydn's operas." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century: Transactions of the 8th International Congress on the Enlightenment 305 (1992): 1509-13.

• Puccini's Turandot: The End of the Great Tradition by William Ashbrook and Harold Powers, Volume 1 of Princeton Studies in Opera. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Reviewed in Canadian University Music Review XII I (1993): pp. 165 - 168.

• Nominated by third-year students for the Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award, 1993.
• Refereed an article entitled "Tales of Morality and Immorality: 18th Century Society as Depicted in the Italian Comic Libretto," for Lumen - the Journal of the Canadian Society for 18th-Century Studies.

• "La vera costanza: A case study for musical characterization in Haydn's opera," International Society for 18th Century Studies, 8th International Congress, Bristol, July 1991.
• "Haydn and his Revision of his Opera Acide": Canadian Society for 18th Century Studies, St. John's, Newfoundland, October 1992.
• "Jobs in Canadian Musical Academia: A Panel Discussion," Canadian University Music Society, Learned Societies Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, May 1993.
• "The Transformation of the Servant Class in Joseph Haydn's Italian Comic Operas," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 25th Anniversary Annual Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, March 1994.

• "Mozart and the Tradition of the Abduction Opera," Mozart Symposium, November 1991.