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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 article on Edward Lowinsky and the 1971 Josquin-Festival Conference has been published as part of the (open access) 2021 Troja Jahrbuch volume, “Josquin-Bilder im langen 20. Jahrhundert.”

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 article on Edward Lowinsky and the 1971 Josquin-Festival Conference has been published as part of the (open access) 2021 Troja Jahrbuch volume, “Josquin-Bilder im langen 20. Jahrhundert.”