Many Musics of America

Sarah Eyerly

Sarah Eyerly is Curtis Mayes Orpheus Professor and Associate Professor of Musicology at Florida State University. Her first book, Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early America (Indiana University Press, 2020), received the Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society, and the Dale W. Brown Book Award from the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, and was a finalist for the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize. She is also co-author, with Rachel Wheeler, of the triple prize-winning article, “Singing Box 331: Re-Sounding Eighteenth-Century Mohican Hymns from the Moravian Archives” (The William and Mary Quarterly, 2019), and her article, “Mozart and the Moravians” (Early Music, 2019), received the Marjorie Weston Emerson Award from the Mozart Society of America. She serves on the Board of Directors of the American Musicological Society and is coordinator of the musicology area at Florida State.