School of Music
Chelsey Belt
Adjunct Instructor in the School of Music
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School Of Music
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Chelsey Belt is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School
of Music, writing her dissertation on the transmission and practice of solo song in
early modern Italy. She received her M.M. in musicology from Boston University and
B.M.E. (music education) here at Illinois Wesleyan, where she currently teaches the
Gateway Colloquium “Unwritten Histories” on oral cultures of music and literature. Chelsey is also an Instructional Assistant Professor of Musicology at Illinois State
University.
In 2023, she presented research at international conferences including the American
Musicological Society in Denver, MedRen in Munich, and the Renaissance Society of
America in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Chelsey plays a variety of historical bowed strings and her writing can be heard on Harmonia, WFIU’s nationally-syndicated early music radio program.