In 1995, I conducted research in Ives's study in West Redding, Connecticut and found newspaper clippings, complete sections of newspapers, and periodicals. I created "New Sources for Ives studies: An Annotated Catalogue," which was... more
This article investigates the compositional dynamics of creating texts for the music of pre-existing clausulae in three early thirteenth-century Latin motets in the Florence manuscript (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut.... more
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut.29.1 (F) is considered the earliest extant manuscript to preserve a collection of motets, with two fascicles devoted to this new genre. Scholars have long emphasised the strict liturgical... more
Dated to the 1240s, the Florence manuscript (F: Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 29.1) is the earliest surviving source to contain a collection of motets. The exclusively Latin-texted motets in F are widely regarded as the oldest... more
Scholars of the earliest motets continue to be faced by questions of compositional chronology which cannot readily be resolved by the application of general theories. This article offers a detailed analysis of interactions between... more
Review Article of Emma Dillon, The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260–1330. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012
This article examines a family of thirteenth-century discant and motets on the tenor LATUS, tracing complex relationships between the various incarnations of its shared musical material: passages of melismatic discant in two- and... more
Polyphony associated with the Parisian cathedral of Notre Dame marks a historical turning point in medieval music. Yet a lack of analytical or theoretical systems has discouraged close study of twelfth- and thirteenth-century musical... more