Richard Sherr

Curriculum Vitae

 

Born, March 25, 1947; attended schools in Yonkers, New York and Ardsley, New York; private study: piano-14 years, clarinet-10 years.

 

Education

 

Columbia University, New York City: B.A. (cum laude), 1969.

 

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey: M.F.A., 1971; Ph.D., 1975.

 

Honors and Awards

 

Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1969-70.

 

Fulbright Student Grant (Italy), 1972-73.

 

N.E.H. Summer Stipend, 1978.

 

Grant from the American Philosophical Society, 1980.

 

Fellowship from the Leopold Schepp Foundation used in conjunction with an appointment as Fellow of the Villa I Tatti (the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), 1982-83.

 

American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, 1985.

 

Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant, 1985.

 

Grant from the American Philosophical Society, 1992.

 

Palestrina Prize awarded by the Lions Club of Palestrina, Italy, 1992.

 

In conjunction with the XLVIe Colloque International d’Études Humanistes: La Papauté à la Renaissance held at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, France, 30 June-4 July 2003, awarded  La Médaille de la Ville de Tours (The Medal of the City of Tours) awarded by the City of Tours, France, in recognition of his scholarly contributions to the history of music in the renaissance.

 

Employment

 

Smith College, Northampton, MA: Caroline L. Wall ’27 Professor, 2000-

 

Yale University, New Haven, CT: Visiting Professor, 1990.

 

Smith College, Northampton, MA: Professor, 1986-2000

 

Smith College, Northampton, MA: Associate Professor, 1980-1986.

 

Smith College, Northampton, MA: Assistant Professor, 1975-80.

 

University of Wisconsin, Madison: Visiting Lecturer, 1974-75.

 

University of California, Los Angeles: Lecturer, 1973-74.

 

Princeton University: Teaching Assistant, 1972.

 

 

Dissertation

 

“The Papal Chapel ca. 1492-1513 and its Polyphonic Sources," Princeton, 1975.

 

Books

 

Papal Music Manuscripts in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries, Renaissance Manuscript Studies 5 (Neuhausen: Hänssler-Verlag, 1996)

 

Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome (ed.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). Reviewed in: Music and Letters 81 (2000): 284-287; Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 57 (2000):; Journal of the American Musicological Society 54 (2001): 368-373.

 

Music and Musicians in Renaissance Rome and Other Courts, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1999). Reviewed in: Early Music  28 (2000): 117; Sixteenth Century Journal 31 (2000): 801-802

 

The Josquin Companion (ed.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). Reviewed in: Times Literary Supplement, September 2001: 19; Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 58 (2002): 819-822; Journal of the American Musicological Society 55 (2002): 155-165.

 

Articles

 

1.     "Un document sur Guillaume Tessier," Revue de Musicologie 59 (1973): 105-06.

 

2.     "New Archival Data Concerning the Chapel of Clement VII," Journal of the American Musicological Society 29 (1976): 472-78.

 

3.     Contribution to the Workshop on Josquin's Masses in Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference, edited by Edward E. Lowinsky (London, 1976), pp. 712-17.

 

4.     "Notes on Two Roman Manuscripts of the Early Sixteenth Century," The Musical Quarterly 63 (1977): 48-73.

 

5.     "The Publications of Guglielmo Gonzaga," Journal of the American Musicological Society 31 (1978): 118-25.

 

6.     "From the Diary of a 16th-Century Papal Singer," Current Musicology 25 (1978): 83-98.

 

7.     "Guglielmo Gonzaga and the Castrati," Renaissance Quarterly 33 (1980): 33-56.

 

8.     "Schubert, Sullivan and Grove," The Musical Times 121, no. 1650 (August, 1980): 499-500.

 

9.     Articles on Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance topics in The New Grove (London, 1980).

 

10. "A Note on the Biography of Juan del Encina," Bulletin of the Comediantes 34 (1982): 159-172.

 

11. "The Singers of the Papal Chapel and Liturgical Ceremonies in the Early Sixteenth Century: Some Documentary Evidence," in Rome in the Renaissance, the City and the Myth, edited by P.A. Ramsey (Binghamton, 1982), pp. 249-264.

 

12. "A New Document Concerning Raphael's Portrait of Leo X," The Burlington Magazine 125, no. 958 (January, 1983): 31-32.

 

13. "Notes on Some Papal Documents in Paris," Studi Musicali 12 (1983): 5-16.

 

14. "A Letter from Paolo Animuccia: A Composer's Response to the Council of Trent," Early Music 12 (1984): 74-78.

 

15. "Verdelot in Florence, Coppini in Rome, and the Singer `La Fiore'," Journal of the American Musicological Society 37 (1984): 402-411.

 

16. "Mecenatismo Musicale a Mantova: Le Nozze di Vincenzo Gonzaga e Margherita Farnese," Rivista Italiana di Musicologia 19 (1984): 3-20.

 

17. "Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, as a Patron of Music," in Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth, edited by Piero Morselli et. al. (Florence, 1985), pp. 627-38.

 

18. "The Diary of the Papal Singer Giovanni Antonio Merlo," Analecta Musicologica 23 (1985): 75-128.

 

19. "Mass," "Parody Mass," "Paraphrase," "Requiem," in The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, edited by Don Randall (Cambridge, MA, 1986).

 

20. "The Medici Coat of Arms in a Motet for Leo X," Early Music 15 (1987): 31-35.

 

21. "Performance Practice in the Papal Chapel in the 16th Century," Early Music 15 (1987): 453-62.

 

22. "The Membership of the Chapels of Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne in the Years Preceding their Deaths," The Journal of Musicology 6 (1988): 60-82.

 

23. "Illibata dei virgo nutrix and Josquin's Roman Style," Journal of the American Musicological Society 41 (1988): 434-64.

 

24. "Josquin's Missa Pange Lingua: a Note on Agnus Dei III," Early Music 18 (1990): 271-75.

 

25. "The Relationship between a Vatican Source of the Gloria of Josquin's Missa de Beata Virgine and Petrucci's Print," in Angelo Pompilio, et. al. eds., Atti del XIV Congresso della Società  Internazionale di Musicologia (Bologna, 1990), vol. II, pp. 266-71.

 

26. "The Performance of Josquin's L'Homme armé Masses," Early Music 19 (1991): 261-68.

 

27. "A Canon, A Choirboy, and Homosexuality in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy: A Case Study," Journal of Homosexuality 21 (1991): 1-22.

 

28. "The Performance of Chant in the Renaissance and its Interactions with Polyphony," in Plainsong in the Age of Polyphony, edited by Thomas Kelly (Cambridge England, 1992), pp. 178-208.

 

29. "Tempo to 1500," in Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music, edited by Tess Knighton and David Fallows (London, 1992), pp. 327-336.

 

30. "The `Spanish Nation' in the Papal Chapel, 1492-1521," Early Music 20 (1992): 601-610.

 

31. "Music and the Renaissance Papacy: The Papal Choir and the Fondo Cappella Sistina," in Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture, edited by Anthony Grafton (Washington D. C., 1993), pp. 199-224.

 

32. "Competence and Incompetence in the Papal Choir in the Age of Palestrina," Early Music 22 (1994): 606-629.

 

33. "A Biographical Miscellany: Josquin, Tinctoris, Obrecht, Brumel," in Musicologica Humana: Studies in Honor of Warren and Ursula Kirkendale, edited by Siegfried Gmeinwieser et. al. (Florence, 1994), pp.65-74.

 

34. "Speculations on Repertory, Performance Practice, and Ceremony in the Papal Chapel in the Early Sixteenth Century," in Studien zur Geschichte der päpstlichen Kapelle: Tagungsbericht Heidelberg 1989, Capellae Apostolicae Sixtinaeque Collectanea Acta Monumenta, Collectanea II, edited by Bernhard Janz (Vatican City, 1994), pp. 103-122.

 

35. "Questions Concerning Instrumental Ensemble Music in Sacred Contexts in the Early Sixteenth Century," in Le Concert des voix et des instruments à  la Renaissance, edited by Jean-Michel Vaccaro (Paris, 1995), pp. 145-156.

 

36. "Notes on the Biography and Music of Bertrandus Vaqueras (ca. 1450-1507)," in Studien zur Musikgeschichte: Eine Festschrift für Ludwig Finscher, edited by Annegrit Laubenthal (Kassel, 1995), pp. 111-122.

 

37. “Conflicting Levels of Meaning and Understanding in Josquin’s O admirabile commercium Motet Cycle,’ in Hearing the Motet: Essays on the Motet of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, edited by Dolores Pesce (New York, 1997), pp. 193-212.

 

38. “Ceremonies for Holy Week, Papal Commissions, and Madness (?) in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome,” in Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts: Studies in Honor of Lewis Lockwood, edited by Jessie Ann Owens and Anthony M. Cummings, Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music, No. 18 (Warren, 1997), pp. 391-403.

 

39. “Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers and his Editions (and Recompositions) of Chant ‘pour les dames religieuses,” in Plain-chant et liturgie en France au XVIIe siècle,” edited by Jean Duron (Versailles, 1997), pp. 189-212.

 

40. “A Curious Incident in the History of the Papal Choir,” in Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome, edited by Richard Sherr (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 187-212.

 

41. “Music at the Cathedral of Bourges in the time of Ockeghem,” in Johannes Ockeghem: Actes du XLe Colloque internationale d’études humanistes, Tours, 3-8 février 1997, edited by Philippe Vendrix, Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance, Collection “Epitome musical” ([Paris]: Editions Klincksieck, 1998), pp. 173-219.

 

42. “Music: Sacred Vocal Music” and “Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da” in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, edited by Paul F. Grendler, et. al., 6 volumes (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999).

 

43. Numerous Articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan, 2000)

 

44. “Beausseron”, “Bernoneau, Hillaire”, “Bruhier, Antoine”, “Busnoys, Antoine”, “Carpentras [Elzéar Genet]”, “Causin, Arnould”, “Cortesi, Paolo” , “Hillanis, Johannes”,  “Danckerts, Ghiselin”, “Le Bel, Firmin”, in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2nd edition, edited by Ludwig Finscher (Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1999-  ), Personenteil, Band 2, 3, 4, 5, 10.

 

45. Introduction, Chapters 2, 7, 8, 11, 14, in The Josquin Companion, edited by Richard Sherr (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

 

46. “Josquin’s Red Nose,” in Essays on Music and Culture in Honor of Herbert Kellman, edited by Barbara Haggh, Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance: Collection “Epitome musical”, 8 (Paris-Tours: Minerve, 2001), pp. 209-240.

 

47. “Impiegati dello Stato: Three Episodes in the Financial Life of the Papal Singers in the 16th Century,” in Bianca Maria Antolini e Teresa Gialdroni , eds., "Et facciam dolçi canti". Studi in onore di Agostino Ziino in occasione del suo 65° compleanno (Lucca: LIM-Libreria Musicale Italiana di Lucca, 2004), pp. 279-289.

 

48. “Clement VII and the Golden Age of the Papal Choir,” in Kenneth Gouwens and Sheryl E. Reiss, eds. The Pontificate of Clement VII: History, Politics, Culture (Hampshire UK: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 227-250.

 

49. “Petrucci and the Problem of “Planxit autem David,” in Giulio Cattin and Patrizia dalla Vecchia, eds. Venezia 1501: Petrucci e la stampa musicale, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Venezia, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, 10-13 ottobre 2001 (Venice: Fondazione Levi, 2005), pp. 351-373.

 

 

Reviews

 

1.     The Cappella Giulia Chansonnier by Allan Atlas, in Journal of the American Musicological Society 31 (1978): 510-16.

 

2.     Music in the Renaissance by Howard Mayer Brown, in Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 36 (1979); 351-52.

 

3.     The Mellon Chansonnier edited by Leeman Perkins and Howard Garey, in Notes 36 (1979): 351-52.

 

4.     Die Messen Heinrich Isaacs by Martin Staehelin, in Journal of the American Musicological Society 34 (1981): 144-49.

 

5.     Johannes Lupi: Musicae Cantiones (1542) edited by Bonnie J. Blackburn, in Early Music 10 (1982): 379-80.

 

6.     Arthur Sullivan: A Victorian Musician  by Arthur Jacobs, in Journal of the American Musicological Society 38 (1985): 637-42.

 

7.     The Madrigal at Ferrara by Anthony Newcomb, Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua by Iain Fenlon, Music in Renaissance Ferraraby Lewis Lockwood, in Rivista Italiana di Musicologia 22 (1987): 310-21.

 

8.     The Italian Madrigal in the Early Sixteenth Century: Sources and Interpretation by Iain Fenlon and James Haar, in Early Music 18 (1990): 289-91.

 

9.     The Florentine Camerata: Documentary Studies and Translations by Claude V. Palisca, in Sixteenth Century Journal 21 (1990): 729-30.

 

10. Altro Polo: Essays on Italian Music in the Cinquecento edited by Richard Charteris, in The Journal of Musicological Research 12 Supplement (1992): 23S-27S.

 

11. Studies in the History of Italian Music and Music Theory by Claude Palisca, in Sixteenth Century Journal 26 (1995):429-30.

 

12. Born for the Muses: The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht by Rob C. Wegman, in Journal of the Royal Musical Association 121 (1996): 105-116.

 

13. Iconografia Palestriniana: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Immagini e Documenti del suo Tempo by Lino Bianchi, Giancarlo Rostirolla et. al. in Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 53 (1996): 66-67.

 

14. Palestrina: Nella vita, nelle opere, nel suo tempo by Lino Bianchi in Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 56 (1999), 397-399.

 

15. Der Fondo Cappella Sistina der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Studien zur Geschichte des Bestandes by Bernhard Janz in Music and Letters  82 (2001): 293-298

 

16. Bonfire Songs: Savonarola’s Musical Legacy, by Patrick Macey, in Journal of the American Musicological Society 55 (2002): 525-532.

 

 

Editions

 

Bertrandi Vaqueras: Opera Omnia, Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae, 78. American Institute of Musicology. Stuttgart, 1979.

 

General Editor of Sixteenth-Century Motet, a series (30 volumes) of transcriptions of motets of the 16th century (New York, 1987-2000). I edited the following volumes myself.

 

1.     Giovanni Lucario: Concentuum qui vulgo motetta nuncupantur liber primus, Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 22 (New York, 1987).

 

2.     Vincenzo Ruffo: Il primo libro di motetti a cinque voci, Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 19 (New York, 1988).

 

3.     Vincenzo Ruffo: Motetti a sei voci, Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 20 (New York, 1988).

 

4.     Selections from Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS Q 19 ("Rusconi Codex") I, Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 6 (New York, 1989).

 

5.     Selections from Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS Q 19 ("Rusconi Codex") II, Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 7 (New York, 1989).

 

6.     Ernoul Causin: Motectorum . . . liber primus cum quinque vocibus (Venice, 1548), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 23 (New York, 1989).

 

7.     Selections from Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS Q20, Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 8 (New York, 1990).

 

8.     Guglielmo Gonzaga, Sacrae cantiones quinque vocum (Venice, 1583): Two Motets from Milan, Biblioteca del Conservatorio "Giuseppe Verdi," MS Santa Barbara 8, Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 28 (New York, 1990).

 

9.     Selections from Motetti A numero trentatre (Venice, 1502), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 1 (New York, 1991).

 

10. Selections from Motetti C (Venice, 1504), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 2 (New York, 1991).

 

11. Selections from Motetti Libro Quarto (Venice, 1505), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 3 (New York, 1991).

 

12. Selections from Motetti de la corona [Libro Primo] (Fossombrone, 1514), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 4 (New York, 1991).

 

13. Selections from Motetti de la corona [Libro Secundo] (Fossombrone, 1519); Motetti de la corona [Libro Tertio] (Fossombrone, 1519); Motetti de la corona [Libro Quarto] (Fossombrone, 1519), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 5 (New York, 1992).

 

14. Jacopo Corfini: Il Secondo Libro de Motetti a 5, 6, 7, 8, X, XII Voci (Venice: Gardane, 1581), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 27 (New York, 1993).

 

15. Helysei Gibelli Musici Excellentissimi Motetta Super Plano Cantu cum Quinque Vocibus et in Festis Solennibus Decanenda Liber Primus (Venice: s.n., 1546), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 21 (New York, 1993).

 

16. Di Baldessara Donata Maestro di Capella della Serenissima Signoria di Venetia in San Marco Il Primo Libro de Motetti a Cinque, a Sei, et Otto Voci Novamenta Composti, & dati in luci (Venice: Gardano, 1599), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 30 (New York, 1994).

 

17. Ioannis Contini Ecclesiae Cathedralis Brixiae Magistri Modulationum Quinque Vocum Liber Primus (Venice: Scotto, 1560), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 25 (New York, 1994).

 

18. The Susato Motet Anthologies: Liber Quintus Ecclesiasticarum Cantionum, Liber Sextus Ecclesiasticarum Cantionum (Antwerp, 1553), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 15 (New York, 1995).

 

19. The Susato Motet Anthologies: Liber Septimus Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quinque vocum . . . (Antwerp: Susato, 1553); Liber Octavus Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quinque vocum . . . (Antwerp: Susato, 1553), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 16 (New York, 1995).

 

20. Girolamo Carli: Motetti del Laberinto Libro primo a cinque Voci . . . (Venice: Girolamo Scotto, 1554), Sixteenth Century Motet, vol. 24 (New York, 1995).

 

21. The Susato Motet Anthologies: Liber Nonus Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quinque vocum . . . (Antwerp: Susato, 1554); Liber Decimus Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quinque vocum . . . (Antwerp: Susato, 1555), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 17 (New York, 1996).

 

22. The Susato Motet Anthologies: Liber Undecimus Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quinque vocum . . . (Antwerp: Susato, 1555); Liber Duodecimus Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quinque vocum . . . (Antwerp: Susato, 1557); Liber XIII [sic] Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quinque vocum . . . (Antwerp: Susato, 1557), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 18 (New York, 1997).

 

23. Iulii Ciccarelli Iulianensis Sacrae Cantiones Vulgo Motetta appelatae cum quinque vocibus, tum organo, tum omni instrumentorum genere cantatu commodissimae, cum quibusdam in fine qutuor vocibus decantandis (Venice: Scotto, 1568), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 26 (New York, 1997).

 

24. Cesaris Tudini Canonici & Musici Cathedralis Ecclesiae Adriensis Mottetorum Quinque Vocibus Liber Primus (Venice: Vincenti, 1588), Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 29 (New York, 1997).

 

25. The Moderne Motet Anthologies: Four-Voice Motets from the Motteti del Fiore Series, Part I, Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 9 (New York, 1998).

 

26. The Moderne Motet Anthologies: Four-Voice Motets from the Motteti del Fiore Series, Part II, Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 10 (New York, 1998).

 

27. The Moderne Motet Anthologies: Five- and More-Voice Motets from the Motteti del Fiore Series, Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 11 (New York: Garland, 1999).

 

28. The Moderne Motet Anthologies: Five- and More-Voice Motets from the Motteti del Fiore Series, Sixteenth-Century Motet, vol. 12 (New York: Garland, 2000).

 

Motets on Texts from the Old Testament, The New Josquin Edition, vol. 14, with Critical Commentary (134 pp.) (Utrecht: Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 2002).

 

 

 

Papers Read

 

1.     "Two Manuscripts Written in Rome in the Early Sixteenth Century for the Use of the Papal Singers," at the Fortieth Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Washington, D.C., November, 1974.

 

2.     "A New Look at Roman Archival Sources of the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries," at the Forty-Second Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Washington, D.C., November, 1976.

 

3.     "From the Diary of a 16th-Century Papal Singer," at the Spring Meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Harvard University, Boston, M.A., May, 1977.

 

4.     "Guglielmo Gonzaga and the Castrati," at the Forty-Fourth Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Minneapolis, Minn., October, 1978.

 

5.     "The Singers of the Papal Chapel and Liturgical Ceremonies in the Early Sixteenth Century: Some Documentary Evidence," at the Conference, "Rome in the Renaissance: The City and the Myth," University of New York, Binghamton, Binghamton,  N.Y., October, 1979.

 

6.     "Settings of the Tract Domine, non secundum peccata: Some Evidence of a Roman Motet Tradition," at the Spring Meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, M.A., April, 1980.

 

7.     "A Look at the Papal Chapel of the Late 15th- and Early 16th Centuries," at the Forty-Sixth Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Denver, Col., 1980.

 

8.     "A Note on the Biography of Juan del Encina," at the Thirty-fourth Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., April, 1981.

 

9.     "The Papal Singers and their Library," at the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mi., May, 1981.

 

10. "Jacob Obrecht and Lupus Hellinck: New Evidence and Speculations," at the Tenth Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, August, 1982.

 

11. "Two Preludes and a Fantasia: Raphael's Portrait of Leo X; Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and Music; the Genesis of the Medici Codex," at the Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy, February, 1983; at Brandeis University, February, 1984; and at the University of New Hampshire, April, 1990.

 

12. "Spanish Music and Musicians in Renaissance Rome, Particularly in the Papal Chapel," at the Eleventh Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, Oxford University, Oxford, England, July, 1983.

 

13. "A Distressing Incident: Choirboys, Canons, and Homosexuality in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy," at the Fall Meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Smith College, Northampton, M.A., October, 1983; and at the New England Renaissance Conference, Wellesley College, Wellesley, M.A., April, 1984.

 

14. "Some Remarks on Papal Patronage, Singers, and Music in the Papal Chapel in the Early Sixteenth Century," at the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, July, 1985; at the  Fifty-First Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Vancouver, Canada, November, 1985; at The University of California at Davis, Davis, CA., November, 1985; and at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA., November, 1985.

 

15. "The Medici Stemma in Music: A Motet for Leo X," read at the symposium: Culture and Spectacle in Rome, 1400-1700, Mt. Holyoke College, April, 1986.

 

16. "The Relationship of a Vatican Source of the Gloria of the Missa de Beata Virgine and Petrucci's Print," read at the 14th Congress of the International Musicological Society, Bologna, Italy, August-September, 1987.

 

17. "Illibata dei Virgo nutrix and Josquin's Roman Style," read at the Fifty-Third Meeting of the American Musicological Society, New Orleans, October, 1987.

 

18. "Liturgy, Ceremony, Musical Practice, and Repertory in the Sistine Chapel in the Early Sixteenth Century," read at the Erstes Internationales Symposion zur Geschichte der päpstlichen Kapelle, Heidelberg, West Germany, April 14-18, 1989.

 

19. "An Aspect of the Mensural System in the Works of Josquin," read at the 17th Annual Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, University of Reading, Reading, England, July 21-24, 1989.

 

20. "The Performance of Chant in the Renaissance and its Interactions with Polyphony," read at the 18th Annual Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, Egham, England, July 6-9, 1990, and at the Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Oakland, California, November 9-11, 1990.

 

21. "Questions and Frustrations Concerning Instrumental Ensemble Music in Sacred Contexts in the 16th Century," read at Le Concert des Voix et des Instruments à  la Renaissance, XXXIV Colloque International, Centre D'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université François-Rabelais, Tours, France, July 1-11, 1991.

 

22. "Life in the Papal Chapel," read at a meeting of the Harvard Seminar in Renaissance Studies, Harvard University, December 18, 1991, and at the Wesleyan Seminar in the Renaissance, Wesleyan University, November 16, 1992.

 

23. "Historical and Practical Observations on the Performance of Renaissance Music," read at Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma, January 21, 1992; at The University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, January 23, 1992; and at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, January 24, 1992.

 

24. "Ceremonies for Holy Week, Papal Commissions, and Madness [?] in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome," read at the Colloquium "Pageantry and Ceremony in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance," Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, May 1, 1992.

 

25. "Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers and his Editions (and Recompositions) of Gregorian Chant "pour les dames religieuses," read at the Conference "Le Plain-chant et la Liturgie en France au XVIIe Siècle," held at the Abbaye de Royaumont and the Chateau de Versailles, France, October 24-26, 1992.

 

26. "Conflicting Levels of Meaning and Understanding in Josquin's O admirabile commercium Motet Cycle," read at the Conference, "Hearing the Motet," held at Washington University, St. Louis, February 13-14, 1994.

 

27. "Competence and Incompetence in the Papal Chapel in the Age of Palestrina," read at Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525-1594 IV Centenario, III Convegno Internazionale di Studi Palestrina e l'Europa, Palestrina, Italy, 6-9 October 1994; at the Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Minneapolis, 27-30 October 1994; at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New York, NY, 30 March-2 April 1995.

 

28. "Josquin's Red Nose: Happy and Boring Credos of the Late Fifteenth Century," read at The 23rd Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, Southampton, England, 5-9 July 1996.

 

29. “Music at the Cathedral of Bourges in the Time of Ockeghem: A Preliminary and Fragmentary Report,” read at the XLe Colloque International d’Études Humanistes: Johannes Ockeghem, Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, 3-8 February 1997.

 

30. “Marriage, Divorce, The Aeneid: Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon, and a Manuscript of Motets,” read at the International Conference: The Burgundian-Hapsburg Court Complex of Music Manuscripts (1500-1535) and the Workshop of Petrus Alamire, Leuven, Belgium, 25-28 November 1999, and in an expanded version at Smith College (Inaugural Chair Lecture), 25 March 2002, and as the Annual Karl Geiringer Lecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 28 April 2002.

 

31. “Clement VII and the Golden Age of the Papal Chapel,” read at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Florence, Italy, 21-24 March 2000.

 

32. “Petrucci and the Problem of Planxit autem David,” read in my absence at the Convegno Internazionale di Studio Venezia 1501: Petrucci e la stampa musicale, Venice Italy, 10-13 October 2001.

 

33. “Resonances of Absalon fili mi in the 16th century,” read at the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Atlanta, Ga, 15-18 November 2001.

 

34. “A Year in the Life of the Papal Singers,” The Tomasso Lecture in Music, read at Tufts University, 31 March 2003.

 

35. “The Counter Reformation and the Singers of the Papal Chapel,” read at the XLVIe Colloque International d’Études Humanistes: La Papauté à la Renaissance held at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, France, 30 June-4 July 2003.

 

36. “A Year in the Life of the Papal Choir: 1594,” read at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, UK, 7-9 April 2005.

 

37. “When the Papal Choir Really Mattered: Liturgy and Decorum in the Apostolic Palace in the Late 16th Century,” read at the Kolloquium: Liturgie und Zeremoniell am Papsthof der Renaissance, Münster, Germany, 19-21 September 2005.

 

 

 

Accepted for Publication

 

The History of the Papal Chapel, vol. 2: The 16th Century: From Julius II to the end of the Reign of Sixtus V. To be published by the Fondazione Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Centro di Studi Palestriniani.

 

Edition of Princess Ida as part of the series Gilbert and Sullivan, The Complete Operas: A Critical Edition. New York & Williamstown: Broude Brothers Limited. In Press.

 

A Critical Edition of Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Fondo Cappella Sistina, MS 14, to appear in Monuments of Renaissance Music, to be published by the University of Chicago Press.

 

“When the Papal Choir Really Mattered: Liturgy and Decorum in the Apostolic Palace in the Late 16th Century,” to be published in the Proceedings of the Kolloquium: Liturgie und Zeremoniell am Papsthof der Renaissance, Münster, Germany, 19-21 September 2005.

 

 

Other Activities

 

1.     Participated as a member of the panel in the Study Session "14th- and 15th-Century Manuscripts: Questions of Methodology," at the Forty-First Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Los Angeles, Ca., November, 1975.

 

2.     Chaired Panel Session "Italian Archival Studies," at the Winter Meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Tufts University, Boston, M.A., February, 1979.

 

3.     Charter member and executive secretary of a group of archivists working through Columbia University to build up a computer bank of references to Renaissance musicians (until 1989).

 

4.     Member (elected) of the Council of the American Musicological Society (Term: 1981-83).

 

5.     Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Musicological Society (1990-92).

 

6.     Chaired the Session, "Music, Meditation and Allegory," at the 1989 Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Harvard University, March 30-April 1, 1989.

 

7.     1991 Nominating Committee for Officers of the American Musicological Society, Chair.

 

8.     Pre-Screener for the ACLS Fellowship Program, 1990, 1991.

 

9.     Consultant to the Library of Congress in the planning of an exhibition of materials from the Vatican Library to be held in January, 1993 and of a scholarly conference to be held in April, 1993.

 

10. Chaired the session "The Renaissance Motet," at the Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Pittsburgh, November 4-8, 1992.

 

11. Co-organized the conference "Music, Musicians, and Musical Culture in Renaissance Rome," Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., April 1-3, 1993, and chaired the session "The Papal Choir and its Repertory in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries."

 

12. Chaired the Session "Music and the Papacy in the 15th Century," at the Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Montreal, November 4-7, 1993.

 

13. Radio Interviews on the Subject of the Sistine Choir in the 16th Century: with WETA, Washington, D.C. (1993); with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1994).

 

14. Chaired the Session "The Fifteeth-Century Motet" at the Sixty-First Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, New York, NY, November 2-5, 1995.

 

15. Member of a Panel to choose recipients of grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (Panel 3, Assistant Professors), 1996.

 

16. Chaired the Session “Renaissance Patronage, Reception History, and Biography” at the Sixty-Second Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Baltimore, MD, November 6-10, 1996.

 

17. Discipline Representative in Music (elected) of the Renaissance Society of America (Term: 1997-2000).

 

18. Member of the editorial advisory committee: A Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Theory, Criticism. Edited by Murray Steib. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999      

 

19. Member of the Commissione Scientifica per l’Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1999-).

 

20. Member of the Program Committee for the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, Toronto, November 2000.

 

21. Reader for the Publications Committee of the American Musicological Society, 2001.

 

22. Reader for the  Journal of the American Musicological Society, 2001.

 

23. Member, Editorial Board of The Journal of Musicological Research (2001-    )

 

24. Reader for The Journal of Musicology, 2004.

 

25. Reader for Routledge, 2005.

 

26. Chaired the Session  “Compositional Strategies in Renaissance Sacred Music,” at the  Seventieth Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Seattle, 11-14 November, 2004.

27. Chaired the Session “Approaches to Renaissance Music,” at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, UK, 7-9 April 2005.

 

28. Chaired the Session “Motet XIVe-XVIe ” at the 2005 Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Tours, 13-16 July 2005.

 

29. Chaired the Session  “Musikalische Vernetzung der Kirchenprovinz” at the Internationale musikwissentschaftliche Tagung: Das Erzbistum Köln in der Musikgeschichte des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts, Cologne, Germany, 23-25 September 2005.

 

Courses Taught at Smith

 

MUS 100: Contemplating Opera (Colloquium)

 

MUS 200: A Historical Survey of Music

 

MUS 200: Topics in the History of Music (complete revision of previous MUS 200)

 

MUS 251: The History of the Opera

 

MUS 253: Popular Music in the Nineteenth Century

 

MUS 302: Music in the Middle Ages

 

MUS 303: Music of the Renaissance

 

MUS 305: Music of the High Baroque

 

MUS 307: Beethoven

 

MUS 310: Modern Music

 

IDP 326: Patronage of the Arts in Renaissance and Early-Modern Europe (seminar taught with Joachim Stieber of the Smith College History Department)

 

MUS 502(b): Seminar in Paleography (Graduate)

 

MUS 506: Seminar in Renaissance Music (Graduate)

 

MUS 507: Seminar in Baroque Music (Graduate)

 

Service

 

Chair of the Department of Music (l983-1988, 1991-1993, 2002-2005)

 

Music Department Graduate Adviser (1992-94, 2000-2001)

 

Secretary of the Faculty of Smith College (1987-1990)

 

Committee composed of the Five College Music Chairs

(1983-1987, 1991-1993, 2002-2005 )

 

Five College Committee to plan the visit of Nino Pirrotta (1985)

 

Five College Committee to plan the visit of Philip Gossett (1989)

 

Five College Early Music Committee (Chair, 1981-82, 83-84, 89-91)

 

Smith College Committee on Honors and Independent Programs (1980-1982, Chair, 1981-1982))

 

Smith College Advisory Committee on the Library (term: 1987-1990, Chair)

 

Smith College Faculty Council (term: 1992-1995; Chair, 1994-1995); liaison to the Committee on Academic Policy (1992-1993, 1993-1994)

 

Smith College Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (term: 1992-1995)

 

Smith College Committee on Planning and Resources (term: 1992-1995)

 

Smith College Committee to Search for the Dean of the Faculty (1994, Chair).

 

Committee to plan the Inauguration of Ruth Simmons as President of Smith College (1995).

 

Kahn Institute Advisory Committee (2000-2003)

 

Neilson Committee (2000-2001, Chair, 2001-2002)

 

Presidential Search Committee (2001)

 

Committee on Academic Priorities (term: 2002-2005)

 

 

Addresses

 

Office: Department of Music, Smith College, Northampton, M.A. 01063; 413-585-3174; FAX: 413-585-3180.

 

email: rsherr@smith.edu

 

Webpage: http://www.smith.edu/~rsherr