Benjamin Ory
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford VPDoR Large Propel Grant.
I received my Ph.D. in musicology from Stanford University in 2022 and have since served as visiting assistant professor in musicology at Williams College. 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 375+ scores, ca. 1510–ca. 1540.
See my CV for more details.
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| May 16, 2024 | It’s official! I’m excited to be a Villa I Tatti Digital Humanities Fellow this fall at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence 🇮🇹. I’m looking forward to working on The 1520s Project and collaborating with the other fellows. |
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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.” |