Alexandra Buckle

Before coming to Bristol, Alexandra was Junior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Music at Worcester College, Oxford, and an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. As well as teaching at Bristol this year, she will also work as a Lecturer at St Hilda's College, and St Anne's College, Oxford.

Alexandra completed her undergraduate degree at Royal Holloway, University of London, and her Master's at Magdalen College, Oxford. Her Doctorate focuses on music and patronage in late medieval England and is titled 'Music and liturgy, patronage and authority: the College of St Mary, Warwick in the later Middle Ages'. Alexandra is most interested in medieval and renaissance English Music, but does like to teach topics on Beethoven and Mahler from time to time. Alexandra recently completed the Oxford Institute of Learning's PG DipLATHE (Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education). In her dissertation for this, she looked at aspects of studying music at undergraduate level, and teaching in higher education, and, on completion, she was made a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

In addition to her academic work, Alexandra enjoys outreach work and has most recently spoken on BBC Radio 3 about Thomas Tallis, and been the Music Consultant for English Heritage's new project on Henry II's Great Tower at Dover Castle. Alexandra is a keen flautist and holds the DipABRSM, several Grade 8s (piano, flute, and voice), and a recital certificate from her days as a student at the Junior School of Birmingham Conservatoire.

Publications

• ‘Fit for a King’: Music and Iconography in Richard Beauchamp’s Chantry Chapel^’, Forthcoming Early Music (2009).
• ‘An English Composer in Royal and Aristocratic Service: Robert Chirbury, c.1380-1454’, Plainsong and Medieval Music 15/2 (2006), 109-122.
• ‘Power, Leonel, Lionel’ in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Personenteil 13 (2005), 862-869 (with David Fallows).
• ‘Pycard’ in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Personenteil 13 (2005), 1085-1087 (with David Fallows).
• ‘Music for Edward the Confessor’, Early Music Today, October 2005.
• ‘Music, Piety and Patronage: Richard Beauchamp and the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick’, Early Music Review, June 2005.