Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Carolyn Abbate is among the world s foremost musicologists. Most of her research has focused on the operatic repertory of the long 19th century, offering creative and innovative approaches to understanding these works critically and historically. Some of her more recent work has addressed topics such as film studies and performance studies more generally. Carolyn Abbate was born in New York, NY on November 20, 1955. She completed her BA at Yale University in 1977. Whilst still an undergraduate at Yale, she reconstructed the score of Claude Debussy s La chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher)-- a work long regarded as unsalvageably incomplete. She continued her studies in Munich and Princeton, completing her PhD at Princeton University under Paul Brainard in 1984. She took a position in the Music Department at Princeton that year, and was named a professor in 1991. She was awarded the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association in 1993, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994.