Courses
Music of Medieval Period; Music History III; Contemporary Music; Writing About Music

Research Interests
Professor Pesce's research interests concentrate on the middle ages and the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries. She has published studies on the history of medieval music theory, particularly the theorist Guido d'Arezzo, and on thirteenth-century motets. Her work in the later periods focuses on the life and music of Franz Liszt and the programmatic music of Edward MacDowell.

Selected Publications:

 Guido d'Arezzo's Regule rithmice, Prologus in antiphonarium, and Epistola ad Michahelem: A Critical Text and Translation. Ottowa: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1999.

Editor. Hearing the Motet: Essays on the Motet of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 

"Introduction" and "Beyond Glossing: The Old Made New in Mout me fu grief/Robin m'aime/Portare." In Hearing the Motet: Essays on the Motet of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Dolores Pesce (Oxford University Press, 1997), 3-11, 28-51. 

"The Other Sea in MacDowell's Sea Pieces." American Music 10 (4) (1992): 411-40. 

The Affinities and Medieval Transposition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.