Born in Duderstadt, 6 Jan 1930. Deceased in Louisville, December 2015.
German musicologist, active in the USA. After studying with Gerber at the University of Göttingen, he took the doctorate at Freiburg University with Gurlitt in 1954 with a dissertation on the music treatises of Conrad von Zabern. He remained at Freiburg as a research assistant until he was invited in 1969 to become an associate professor of music history at the University of Louisville, where he was made full professor in 1974; he was also an adjunct professor at the University of Kentucky. He became an American citizen in 1979 and retired in 1998.
A major focus of his work has been the sources and traditions of medieval Latin theory, particularly in Iberia, culminating in his annotated catalogue of manuscripts in Portugal and Spain from the Carolingian era up to 1500 (1997). In this field he has published analyses of the major sources including the Ripoll 42 and the Enchiridion of Guillermo de Podio. In recognition of his research he was elected a member of the Societat Catalana de Musicologia (1979), the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi (1984) and the Societat Catalana d’Estudis Litúrgics (1992). His work extends to other subjects in European medieval history, particularly in German history and he has contributed many articles on medieval and Renaissance music, music theory, sources and church history to music dictionaries published in German and Spanish.
WRITINGS
. Die Musiktraktate Conrads von Zabern (diss., U. of Freiburg, 1954; Mainz and Wiesbaden, 1956).
. ‘Das Tastenmonochord Conrads von Zabern’, AMW, XII (1955), 143-66.
. Ed.: Hugo Spechtshart von Reutlingen: Flores musicae, 1332/42 (Mainz and Wiesbaden, 1958).
. Zur Interpretation der Tonus-Definition des Tonale Sancti Bernardi (Mainz and Wiesbaden, 1959).
. ‘Der Toledaner Kapellmeister Bartolomé de Quevedo und sein Kommentar zu der Extravagante Docta santorum Johannes XXII’, Spanische Forschungen der Görresgesellschaft, 1st ser.: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Kulturgeschichte Spaniens, XXI (1963), 294-308.
. ‘Zur Frühgeschichte der vulgärsprachlichen spanischen und katalanischen Musiktheorie’, Spanische Forschungen der Görresgesellschaft, 1st ser.: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Kulturgeschichte Spaniens, XXIV (1968), 267-336.
. ‘Das Enchiridion de principiis musice discipline des Guillermus de Podio’, Spanische Forschungen der Görresgesellschaft, 1st ser.
. “Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Kulturgeschichte Spaniens”, XXVII (1973), 359-96.
. ‘Eine katalanische Version der Mensurallehre des Guillermus de Podio’, Orbis musicae, II (1973-4), 41-52.
. With K.-J. Sachs: ‘Der anonyme Contrapunctus-Traktat aus Ms. Vich 208’, AMW, XXXI (1974), 87-115.
. ‘Cantus eugenianus – Cantus melodicus’, IMSCR XII: Berkeley 1977, 407-13.
. ‘Musica cum rhetorica: die Handschrift Ripoll 42’, AMW, XXXIV (1977), 260-86; Eng. trans. in Essays on the Music of J. S. Bach and Other Divers Subjects: a Tribute to Gerhard Herz, ed. R. L. Weaver (Louisville, 1981), 117-44.
. ‘El canto melódico de Toledo: algunas reflexiones sobre su origen y estilo’, Estudios sobre Alfonso VI y la reconquista de Toledo: Toledo 1985 (Toledo, 1990), 79-101; also pubd in “Recerca musicològica”, VIII (1988), 25-45.
. ‘Gregorian Chant and Musica ficta: some Observations from Spanish Theory of the Early Renaissance’, “Recerca musicològica”, VI-VII (1986-7), 5-27.
. With K.-J. Sachs: ‘Der Manuskript Girona 91 und sein Contrapunctus-Traktat’, AMW, XLV (1988), 186-205.
. ‘Zwei unbeachtete Fragmente der altkatalanischen Art del cant pla’, De musica hispana et aliis: miscelánea en honor al Prof. Dr. José López-Calo, ed. E. Casares and C. Villanueva (Santiago de Compostela, 1990), I, 111-44.
. ‘Portugal and Spain’, The Theory of Music: Manuscripts from the Carolingian Era up to c. 1500, RISM, B/III/5 (1997), 57-134.
. ‘A Musical Treatise from the Late Middle Ages: Ebstorf, Klosterarchiv, MS V, 3’, Music in the Theater, Church and Villa: Essays in Honor of Robert Lamar Weaver and Norma Wright Weaver, ed. S. Parisi (Warren, MI, forthcoming).
Vegeu català / Ver castellano / Spanish view