John Haines

Education

  • PhD, University of Toronto
  • MA, University of Toronto 
  • BSU, University of Minnesota
  • BA, University of Minnesota

Biography

John Haines is professor of music and medieval studies at the University of Toronto. He has published on the music of the Middle Ages and its modern reception in a variety of journals, both musicological – from Early Music History to Popular Music – and non-musicological – from Romania to Scriptorium. Recent books include Medieval Song in Romance Languages (Cambridge, 2010) and Music in Films on the Middle Ages: Fantasy vs. Authenticity (Routledge, 2013). He is a contributor, among others, to The Cambridge History of Medieval Music and The Oxford Handbook of Music Revivals, both forthcoming.

Professional Activities

Books: • Film Music: An Introduction in 11 Takes (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022) • Chants du diable, chants du peuple: Voyage en musique au Moyen Âge (Brepols: 2018) • The Notory Art of Shorthand (Ars notoria notarie): An Unusual Mirror For Princes, Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations (Louvain: Peters, 2014) • Music in Film on the Middle Ages: Authenticity vs. Fantasy (New York: Routledge, 2013) • Editor, The Calligraphy of Medieval Music, Musicalia Medii Aevi 1 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011) • Medieval Song in Romance Languages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) • Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004); paperback edition, 2009.

Scholarly & Creative Works