D. Linda Pearse

D. Linda Pearse (lpearse@mta.ca) is Canada Research Chair in Music, Contact, and Conflict at Mount Allison University, Canada. Her scholarship is informed by studies in musicology and performance at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (CH), Indiana University Bloomington (US), and McGill University (CA). Her ongoing work on intercultural encounters between the Austrian Habsburgs and the Ottomans and on music history pedagogy is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Co-authored with Howard Weiner and Charlotte Leonard, a recent publication, The Early Trombone: A Catalogue of Music (Brepols, 2023) documents nearly 9,000 works specifying the trombone from the early sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Her in-progress work, The Sonic Machine: Sound and Music in the Austrian–Habsburg War (1593–1606), explores war as a nexus where sound, memory, and ritual illuminate cultural similarities alongside more conventional articulations of cultural difference.