Benjamin Ory
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) Junior Postdoctoral Fellow, KU Leuven, Belgium.
I received my Ph.D. in musicology from Stanford University in 2022 and have since served as a Digital Humanities Fellow at Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti, as visiting assistant professor in musicology at Williams College, and as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford. My interests include sixteenth-century music, digital humanities, and the historiography of early music.
I’m the founder and director of the digital humanities resource, The 1520s Project, an open-source repository of 450 scores, ca. 1510–ca. 1540.
See my CV for more details.
news
| Dec 17, 2024 | My review of Jane Bernstein’s Printing Music in Renaissance Rome has been published by the Journal of the American Musicological Society. As I write, it’s a great book about an important–if understudied–center of music printing during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. |
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| Apr 22, 2024 | I’m delighted that my article, “A Motet Wrongly Attributed to Adrian Willaert,” has just been published in the Journal of the Alamire Foundation. I describe a problematic scholarly tendency to assume that an attribution in a given source can apply to works other than the one to which it is attached. Closer examination of Nigra sum makes clear that it is—contrary to what we’ve thought—a three-voice motet by an anonymous composer, with two si placet (additional) voices added later. |
| Mar 06, 2024 | My contribution on Edward Lowinsky and the 1971 Josquin-Festival Conference has been published in the 2021 Troja Jahrbuch, “Josquin-Bilder im langen 20. Jahrhundert.” |