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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.”