JeremySmith
- Professor of Musicology
- MUSICOLOGY
Jeremy L. Smith, Professor of Musicology, is a specialist on the English Renaissance with a secondary interest in Progressive Rock. He has published articles inJournal of American Musicological Society,Music & Letters,Computing in Musicology,Notes,Fontes Artis Musicae,New Dictionary of National Biography,MGGandNew Groveand has presented scholarly papers at annual meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Medieval and Renaissance Music Society, among others. His most recent essays include a chapter in‘Noyses, sounds and sweet aires’: Music in Early Modern England(catalogue for exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006) andPopular Music(a work coauthored with Jay Keister, forthcoming). His monographThomas East and Music Publishing in Renaissance Englandwas published in 2003 by Oxford University Press and his edition of William Byrd’s “Psalmes, Sonets and Songs,” Vol. 12 of theByrd Edition, general editor Philip Brett, was published in 2004 by Stainer & Bell. Research for the latter volume was supported in part by a NEH Collaborative Research Grant. In 2001 and 2007 Smith was awarded the Richard Hill (MLA) prize for the year’s best article of a music-bibliographical nature. In 2006 he was awarded a Provost’s Award for his article inJAMS. Smith is a founding member of the editorial board of Music & Politics, for which he published an article in the inaugural edition. His latest book is Verse and Voice in Byrd’s Song Collections of 1588 and 1589 (Boydell, 2016).