Catherine Saucier, associate professor of musicology at Arizona State University and affiliate faculty of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, holds a doctorate and master's in music history from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's in cello performance from Indiana University. Professor Saucier specializes in late-medieval sacred music, hagiography (saints' legends), and city culture in the Low Countries, specifically the Belgian city of Liège and Dutch town of 's-Hertogenbosch, where she has conducted extensive archival and liturgical research supported by grants and fellowships from the Quebec government, the Medieval Academy of America, the University of Chicago, the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and ASU. Her current research focuses on the musical veneration of St John the Evangelist in the diocese of Liège and beyond. Publications include her monograph, A Paradise of Priests: Singing the Civic and Episcopal Hagiography of Medieval Liège (University of Rochester Press, 2014); essays in refereed collections Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500-1500, ed. Samantha Kahn Herrick (Brill, 2020), and Manuscripts, Materiality, and Mobility: Essays on Late Medieval Music in Memory of Peter Wright, ed. James Cook, Grantley McDonald, Adam Whittaker (Libreria Musicale Italia, 2024); a critical edition of the office chants for St John the Evangelist for the Historiae series (Institute for Mediaeval Music, 2021); and articles in Early Music History, The Senses and Society, Speculum, Acta Musicologica, the Journal of the Alamire Foundation, the Journal of Musicology, Plainsong and Medieval Music, the Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, Viator, and Religions.
At ASU, Saucier has taught the undergraduate survey Music History: Ancient Greece-1750 and currently teaches undergraduate electives in Music in Renaissance Cities and Recycled Music: Medieval to Modern, as well as graduate courses on Medieval Music and Ritual, Music and Global Exploration c.1500-1650, Musical Borrowing, History of Choral Music and Institutions, Topics in Renaissance Music, Music Bibliography, and Historical Research in Music. She has taught previously at Duke University, The University of Chicago, and the University of Oklahoma.
Professor Saucier is the co-founder and former faculty sponsor of the ASU Early Music Chamber Choir and former president of the Phoenix Early Music Society.
A Paradise of Priests: Singing the Civic and Episcopal Hagiography of Medieval Liège, The University of Rochester Press in partnership with Boydell & Brewer (2014)
Critical Edition
Historia Sancti Iohannis Evangeliste (traditionibus Leodiensis et Boscoducis), The Institute of Mediaeval Music (2021)
Essays and Journal Articles (Refereed)
“Guillaume DuFay’s Moribus et genere/Virgo est electus and Burgundian Devotion to the Virginal Evangelist: The Interplay of Mobility and Materiality,” in Manuscripts, Materiality, and Mobility: Essays on Late Medieval Music in Memory of Peter Wright, ed. James Cook, Grantley McDonald, Adam Whittaker (Libreria Musicale Italia, 2024), pp. 185-215
“Letare Taxandria: Regionalism and Hagiographic Interactions between Sint-Oedenrode, ’s-Hertogenbosch, and Liège in the Medieval Cult and Liturgy of St Oda,” Religions 15, 667 (2024): 1-27
“Manna and the Mystery of Non-Death in the Late Medieval Liturgy of St John the Evangelist: From Ephesus to ’s-Hertogenbosch,” Viator 54 (2023-24): 369-412
“Secundum consuetudinem ecclesie Busciducensis: Local and Diocesan Observances in Late Medieval Liturgical Sources for ’s-Hertogenbosch,” Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 73 (2023): 72-107
“Preacher and Prophet: Intersecting Voices of St John the Evangelist in Late Medieval ’s-Hertogenbosch,” Plainsong and Medieval Music 32 (2023): 33-65
“Singing the Lives of the Saints: Hagiographical-Historical Intersections in Music and Worship,” in Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500-1500, ed. Samantha Kahn Herrick (Brill, 2020), pp. 161-191
“Johannes Brassart’s Summus secretarius: Extolling the Evangelist,” Journal of Musicology 34 (2017): 149-181
"Reading Hagiographic Motets: Christi nutu sublimato, Lamberte vir inclite, and the Legend of St Lambert," Journal of the Alamire Foundation 6 (2014): 84-111
“Johannes Brassart’s Civic Motet: Voicing the Biblical Topography of Medieval Liège,” Acta Musicologica 85 (2013): 1-20
“Sacrament and Sacrifice: Conflating Corpus Christi and Martyrdom in Medieval Liège,” Speculum 87 (2012): 682-723
“The Sweet Sound of Sanctity: Sensing Saint Lambert,” The Senses and Society 5 (2010): 10-27
“Acclaiming Advent and Adventus in Johannes Brassart’s Motet for Frederick III,” Early Music History 27 (2008): 137-179
Refereed Reference Articles
"Brassart, Johannes," revised and updated article, originally authored by Peter Wright, in Grove Music Online (2022)
Book Reviews in Refereed Journals
Review of Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland, ed. Ann Buckley and Lisa Colton (Cambridge University Press, 2022) in Moyen Âge: Revue d’histoire et de philologie 129 (2024): 1015-1017
Review of Medieval Liège at the Crossroads of Europe: Monastic Identity and Culture, 1000-1300, ed. Steven Vanderputten, Tjamke Snijders, and Jay Diehl (Brepols, 2017) in Church History 87 (2018): 857-860
Non-Refereed Publications
“Antiphonaire” and “Graduel” in L’Historien dans son atelier: Anthologie du document pour servir à l’histoire du pays de Liège du VIIIe au XVIIIe siècle, edited by Marie-Guy Boutier and Paul Bruyère (Vottem, Belgium: Société des Bibliophiles liégeois/Snel, 2017), pp. 17-21, 203-207
“Les pratiques liturgiques au XIVe et au XVe siècles dans la cathédrale Saint-Lambert de Liège,” in La cathédrale gothique Saint-Lambert à Liège: une église et son contexte. Actes du colloque international de l’Université de Liège, 16-18 avril 2002, edited by Benoit Van den Bossche (Liège: Eraul, 2004), pp. 31-35
