Théodora Psychoyou

Théodora Psychoyou
Period: 2005-2007
Profession: Art historian After studying music in Athens, she continued her studies in France, arriving in 1992 at the age of 17. Doctor of Music and Musicology at the University of Tours in 2003, she also holds first prizes from conservatories in composition, historical counterpoint, fugue and orchestration, music history and music acoustics (at the Klassikon Odeion in Athens, and at the CNR and CNSM in Paris). Associate researcher at the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles since 1997, from 1997 to 2005 she worked on the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales team in the Music Department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, on the early music manuscript collection. Between 1999 and 2005, she taught music analysis and history at university. In 2003-2004, she was in charge of the exhibition “Moyen Age: entre ordre et désordre” at the Musée de la Musique in Paris. Her research focuses on the status of musical and theoretical sources, on the composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) and, above all, on music theory and discourse in 17th-century France, the subject of her thesis; her stay at the Villa Medici, from October 2005 to April 2007, enabled her to broaden her research into the circulation of ideas and Franco-Italian connivances in the field of theory, and to examine the impact of a possible Italian model on seventeenth-century musical thought, and its place in the new order of knowledge.