Benjamin Ory
I’m a music historian with interests in early music, historiography, and the digital humanities.
I’m a Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) junior postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven in 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.
See my research page and my CV for more details.
news
| Aug 08, 2025 | I am so delighted that my article, “Edward Lowinsky and the Divisive Politics of the New Josquin Edition,” has just been published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society. My essay draws on over five years of archival research and conversations with senior scholars in the field. I’m thankful to those who shared their memories, insights, and documents, and to the archives whose holdings made this work possible. I hope it sparks fresh discussion about the historiography of musicology and the complex legacies of its major figures. |
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| May 08, 2025 | My digital humanities resource, The 1520s Project, has just reached the milestone of 500 pieces of European polyphonic music, ca. 1510–40. All of the scores can be downloaded for computational analysis from my GitHub. |
| 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. |