One of the foremost scholars of 18th and 19th century French music, Elizabeth Bartlet died Sept. 11 after a long illness.
An associate professor of music, Bartlet joined the Duke faculty in 1982. She served on the Board of Directors of the American Musicological Society and on the Executive Committee of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
In 2004, she received a major National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant to support the international symposium "The Institutions of Opera in Paris from the July Revolution to the Dreyfus Affair," which was held at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. Bartlet's final publication, a new edition of Rameau's Platee, was completed earlier this summer.
Bartlet will be honored during a musical tribute at noon, Wednesday, Sept. 21, in the Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. There will be musical performances by Duke faculty members as well as testimonials by her colleagues.