Kaho INOUE is a PhD candidate in Music (Musicology) at the University of Southampton and at Tokyo University of the Arts, under the auspices of British Council Japan Association, the Japan Student Services Organization, and the Nomura Foundation. She has been a recipient of awards from the RMA (The Frank Howes Research Grant), the Music & Letters Trust, the K. Matsushita Foundation, the Suntory Foundation, the Rohm Music Foundation, and the Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences. Her PhD research at Southampton focuses on multiple functions of ligatures in pre-Franconian theory in comparison with Franco of Cologne’s Ars cantus mensurabilis (c. 1280).
