Carmel Raz
Carmel Raz is an assistant professor of Music at Cornell University, where she studies the interrelations of music, mind, and body during the emergence of modern European musical cultures. Her recent monograph, Hearing with the Mind: Proto-Cognitive Music Theory in the Scottish Enlightenment (Oxford University Press, 2025) sheds new light on the history of music perception by focusing on music theory in the Scottish Enlightenment. Other books include Sound and Sense in British Romanticism, co-edited with James Grande (Cambridge University Press, 2023), The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, and Subjectivity, co-edited with Francesca Brittan (The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026), and Thinking Music: Global Sources for the History of Music Theory, an anthology co-edited with Thomas Christensen and Lester Hu, which will be published by the University of Chicago’s OPS as a digitally native, open-access book in early 2027.
