“Taming the Temporal Beast: Dramatic Arcs in Du Fay’s Tenor Masses”
Room 266, Everson Hall
Jesse Rodin is Associate Professor of Music at Stanford University and co-editor of the Journal of Musicology. He is the author of Josquin’s Rome: Hearing and Composing in the Sistine Chapel (Oxford University Press, 2012), editor of a volume of L’homme armé masses for the New Josquin Edition (2014), and co-editor of The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music (2015). He directs the Josquin Research Project, a digital tool for exploring a large corpus of Renaissance music, and is Artistic Director of the vocal ensemble Cut Circle. For his work with Cut Circle, Rodin received the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society in 2010. He is also the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the American Musicological Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Current projects include a monograph on “form” in fifteenth-century music with Cambridge University Press, and an album entitled Guillaume Du Fay: Les Messes à Teneur (The Tenor Masses; Cut Circle and Musique en Wallonie, in press).
Free (a Valente Lecture)