Alison Dunlop (b. 1985) is a freelance musicologist living and working in Vienna, Austria. Her main area of interest is musical life at the Viennese imperial court in the eighteenth century. She completed a doctoral dissertation on Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770) at Queen's University Belfast under the supervision of Professors Yo Tomita and Ian Woodfield. Alison also graduated from the same institution with a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Greek and Music (first class honours), and a Master's in Music (distinction). Other professional activities include proof-reading, translation and teaching.
Alison Dunlop
adunlop04@qub.ac.uk
alison.dunlop@donjuanarchiv.at
And now for something different ...
Gottlieb could go by Liebgott.
Though he wouldn't more often than not.
After learning from Fux,
He wooed kings and wooed dukes,
And declared, "I'm the master, Muffat!"
One day when performing in court,
He had an affair of a sort
With a charming young lass,
Who remarked with some sass
That he seemed to be coming up short.
So he dared to remark with vulgarity,
"I have hands that will live for posterity!"
She asked, "Oh, you're an onanist?"
He replied, "No, an organist!"
She said, "Both would explain your temerity!"
But time went and pulled out his stops,
And history forgot his great chops
'Til another young lass
In the town of Belfast
Would stand and declare, "He's the tops!"
By the composer, scholar, poet and my dear friend Dan Morse, 2010