Théodora Psychoyou

Théodora Psychoyou est maîtresse de conférences en musicologie à Sorbonne Université et membre de l’Institut de recherche en Musicologie (IReMus, UMR 8223). Elle a été pensionnaire de l’Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, membre de l’équipe des manuscrits musicaux anciens à la Bibliothèque nationale de France et chercheuse associée au Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, enfin titulaire de prix de conservatoire en Acoustique musicale (CNSMDP), Histoire de la musique (CRR de Paris), en Écriture, Contrepoint, Fugue et orchestration (Conservatoire d’Athènes).
Théodora Psychoyou is maître de conférences (Associate Professor) in music and musicology at Sorbonne Université, and a statutory member of IReMus (Institut de recherche en musicologie); she is currently chair of the Master degree programme of the Music and musicology faculty. She specialises in musical thought in France in the 17th and 18th centuries and has published on the relationship of music and science and the paradigm shifts of musical thought in the 17th century. She is also author of several critical editions of sacred music, especially by French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
Formed in Athens, Tours and Paris, she holds a Ph.D. in Music and Musicology at the University of Tours (2003); she has been a fellow at Villa Medici–Académie de France in Rome (2005-2007), member of the RISM group (early music manuscripts, 16th-18th c.) at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1997-2005), an associate researcher at the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (1997-2007), and a board member of the Société française de musicologie (2012-2021).
Her research focuses on the history and mechanisms of the discourse on music in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in France; the economy and the status of musical and theoretical sources; and sacred music in the 17th century, in particular that of Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Her current projects concern the fortunes and functions of the ancient heritage in musical thought in the early modern era, the quarrel between Ancients and Moderns in music and its ramifications, Latin music in the Greek isles, and finally the relationship between music and science during the 17th century, and the history of musical acoustics.