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Edward
Roesner
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Professor
of Music
Ph.D. 1974, New York University |
Edward Roesner is a medievalist
working
primarily with the music of the 12th, 13th, and early 14th
centuries. He has published essays on the Codex Calixtinus of
Santiago de Compostela, the magnus
liber of Notre-Dame of Paris, and the Roman de Fauvel (including a
facsimile edition of Fauvel
that is accompanied by a book-length introduction).
Much of his research has concentrated on Notre-Dame polyphony, its
rhythmic language and notation, the theorists of the period who
describe it, and its place in the history of musical composition, as a
tradition that is midway between a polyphonic practice generated ad hoc
in performance and one that is "composed" in the modern sense of the
word. Since 1984 he has been engaged in publishing the surviving
corpus of liturgical polyphony created for Notre-Dame by Leoninus,
Perotinus, and other musicians of the 12th and 13th centuries; he is
presently working on the seventh, last volume of the series, an
addition of the two-voice organa in the manuscript W1.
Other projects that are underway include a monograph on recently
discovered fragments of the late 13th-century polyphony now in the
royal archives in Stockholm (with Wulf Arlt) and articles on rhetoric
in the non-verbal arts of the middle ages.
Professor
Roesner studied violin and musicology at the
College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, graduating with a first
prize in violin. He received his Ph.D. from New York University
in 1974, studying Gustave Reese, Jan LaRue, and H. Wiley Hitchcock,
among others. After teaching at Indiana University and the
University of Maryland, College Park, he joined the faculty at NYU in
1976. He has taught as a visiting professor at Princeton, Yale,
and Harvard. His graduate seminars have included topics such as
the early history of Gregorian chant, readings in medieval paleography,
in addition to courses in Notre-Dame polyphony and the early ars nova. He has been awarded
fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of
Learned Societies, among other grants.
e-mail: edward.roesner@nyu.edu
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