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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. |
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| 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. |
| 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.” |