About
I am an independent scholar and former research associate (2005–2008) and research affiliate (2004, 2008–2020) in the School of Historical Studies, Monash University. I completed my PhD in musicology at the University of Melbourne (2001) focusing on the
music of Hildegard of Bingen (1298–1179). I have published on twelfth-century German plainchant and late-thirteenth-century music theory and am one of the collaborating editors and translators of Johannes de Grocheio’s
Ars musice (c.a. 1270) and Guy of Saint-Denis’s
Tractatus de tonis (c.a. 1301).
Other Publications
Guy of Saint-Denis,
Tractatus de Tonis, ed. & trans. Constant J. Mews, John N. Crossley, Carol J. Williams and Catherine Jeffreys, Medieval Institute Publications 2017
Johannes de Grocheio,
Ars musice, ed. & trans. Constant J. Mews, John N. Crossley, Catherine Jeffreys, Leigh McKinnon and Carol J. Williams, Medieval Institute Publications 2011
Catherine Jeffreys, “Some Early References to Aristotle’s Politics in Parisian Writings about Music” in
Identity and Locality in Early European Music, 1028–1740, ed. Jason Stoessel, Routledge 2009
Catherine Jeffreys, “The Exchange of Ideas About Music in Paris 270–1304: Guy of Saint-Denis, Johannes de Grocheio, and Peter of Auvergne” in
Communities of Learning: Networks and the Shaping of Intellectual Identity in Europe, 1100-1500, ed. Constant J. Mews & John N. Crossley, Brepols Publishers 2011
Constant J. Mews, Catherine Jeffreys, Leigh McKinnon, Carol Williams and John N. Crossley, “Guy of Saint-Denis and the Compilation of Texts about Music in London, British Library, Harl. MS. 281”,
Electronic British Library Journal 2008, art 6, 1‒34
Catherine Jeffreys, “’Listen, Daughters of Light’: The
Epithalamium and Musical Innovation in Twelfth-Century Germany” in
Listen, Daughter: The “Speculum virginum” and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages, ed. Constant J. Mews, The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave 2001
Catherine Jeffreys,
Sicut malum: Hildegards von Bingen Vertonung von Hohelied 2,3-6, Paulinus Verlag GmbH, 1998
