Notes on contributors

Rebecca A. Baltzer is Professor emerita at the University of Texas at Austin. Her published work includes an edition of Notre Dame clausulae and articles on the sources of Notre Dame polyphony, the early motet, and the liturgical context of medieval polyphony.
Sam Barrett is Lecturer in music at the University of Cambridge, co-editor of Music and Letters and a board member of Early Music History . He has published several articles in the field of early medieval Latin song, culminating in a recent edition with Francesco Stella (Corpus rhythmorum musicum saec. iv–ix ). He is currently finishing an edition and commentary on notated metra from Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae .
Nicolas Bell is Curator of Music Manuscripts at the British Library, London. His publications include a commentary to the facsimile edition of the Las Huelgas Codex. He is reviews editor of the journal Plainsong & Medieval Music and Secretary of the Henry Bradshaw Society.
Susan Boynton Associate Professor of Historical Musicology at Columbia University, works on medieval Western liturgy, chant, monasticism, music drama, prayer, the history of childhood, and troubadour song. She is the author of Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000–1125 (2006)
Ardis Butterfield is Professor of English at University College London. Her books include Poetry and Music in Medieval France from Jean Renart to Guillaume de Machaut (Cambridge University Press, 2002). She has recently been awarded a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2008–11) to work on the origins of English song.
Robert Curry is principal of the Conservatorium High School and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney. His research focuses on music and monasticism in Central Europe. He is co-editor of Variations on the Canon: Essays on Music from Bach to Boulez in Honor of Charles Rosen and author of Ars antiqua Music and the Clarist Order in Central Europe (forthcoming)
Emma Dillon is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a specialist on French medieval music and manuscripts, and author of Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel .
Lawrence Earp is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Guillaume de Machaut: A Guide to Research (1995). His published articles focus on music in late medieval France.
Mark Everist is Professor of Music and Associate Dean in The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southampton and has written on the Middle Ages, ninetenth-century opera in France, and Mozart reception. He is the editor of the two-part organa from the Magnus liber organi , 3 vols. (2001–3).
Sarah Fuller is Professor of Music at Stony Brook University, New York. Her research focuses on medieval music theory and analysis of early music. Her succinct conspectus of organum, discant and contrapunctus theory from the ninth to the fifteenth century appears in The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory .
Marco Gozzi is Associate Professor of Musicology and Music History in the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia at Trento University. He has published widely on late medieval music, cantus fractus, and liturgical books, and is also an active performer.
Leofranc Holford-Strevens is Consultant Scholar-Editor at Oxford University Press. A classicist by training, he has written on a wide range of topics, classical, medieval, humanistic, calendrical and musicological, this last especially with regard to texts that composers have set.
Elizabeth Eva Leach is University Lecturer in Music at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Hugh's College. She has published widely on the music and poetry of Guillaume de Machaut as well as on issues in fourteenth-century music theory. Her book Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages was published in 2007; her monograph on Machaut is forthcoming.
Peter M. Lefferts is Professor of Music History in the School of Music at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His work in medieval music has concentrated on English polyphony, mensural notation, tonal behaviour, and music theory.
Michael McGrade is a musicologist with interests in medieval music, opera, and music in the late eighteenth century. He was a member of the faculty at Brandeis University and Williams College, and is currently Director of Graduate Admissions at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts.
Christopher Page is Reader in Medieval Music and Literature in the University of Cambridge and Vice-Master of Sidney Sussex College. The founder of the acclaimed ensemble Gothic Voices, he has written numerous books and articles on aspects of medieval music. His major study The Christian West and Its Singers: The First Thousand Years is published in 2010.
Dolores Pesce is Professor of Musicology at Washington University in St Louis. Her medieval publications focus on pitch theory and thirteenth-century motets. She also writes about the music and life of Franz Liszt.