Andrew Kirkman

Address: Department of Music, Marryott Music Building, Douglass Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1568 U.S.A.
Telephone: 609 448 9795
E mail: kirkman@rci.rutgers.edu

(1987-1988 Princeton University:)
Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Three-voice Mass in the Later Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: Style, Distribution and Case Studies."

1983-1985 King's College, University of London:
M.Mus. in Historical Musicology, passed with Distinction.
Dissertation: "The Style and Context of Early Fauxbourdon: Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale Q15 and Modena, Biblioteca Estense Alpha X 1.11."

1980-1983 Durham University:
B.A. (Honours)
Dissertation: "Music in the Jacobean Masque."

The Sound of the Sacrifice: the Life and Afterlife of the Early Polyphonic Mass (complete; currently seeking a publisher).

With Alexander Ivashkin: editor of Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Music and Documents (currently being considered by Boydell and Brewer).

With Dennis Slavin: editor of and contributor to Binchois Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

The Three-voice Mass in the Later Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: Style, Distribution and Case Studies, revised and expanded version of Ph.D. thesis in the series "Outstanding British Music Theses" (New York and London: Garland, 1995).

Book on Music and Musical Life at the Collegiate Church of Saint Omer, Northern France in the later Middle Ages.

A volume of English Masses for the series Fifteenth Century Liturgical Music of Early English Church Music (Stainer and Bell).

"The Seeds of Medieval Music: Choirboys and Musical Training in a Late- Medieval Maîtrise," in Susan Boynton and Eric Rice (eds.), Young Singers of Sacred Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming).

"Personal Endowment: the Economic Engine of the 'Cyclic' Mass?", in Bruno Bouckaert and Eugeen Schreurs (eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of the International Musicological Society, Leuven, 1-7 August 2002, (Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation, , vols. 6-7), 2 vols. (Leuven-Neerpelt: Alamire Editions), forthcoming, January 2008.

"Negotiating Form and Content in Fifteenth-century Music: a View through some Mass Movements by Binchois", in Karl Kügle and Lorenz Welker (eds.), Borderline Areas in 14th and 15th Century Music/ Grenzbereiche in der Musik des 14. Und 15. Jahrhunderts, Musicological Studies and Documents (Neuhausen-Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler-Verlag), forthcoming, 2008.

"The Invention of the Cyclic Mass", Journal of the American Musicological Society, 54/1 (Spring, 2001).

"From Humanism to Enlightenment: Reinventing Josquin", The Journal of Musicology, 17/4 (Fall, 1999; appeared September, 2001).

"'Under such Heavy Chains': the Discovery and Evaluation of Late Medieval Music before Ambros", Nineteenth Century Music 24/1 (Summer, 2000).

"La musique à la collégiale à la fin du moyen âge" in Nicolette Delanne-Logié and Yves-Marie Hilaire (eds.), La cathédrale de Saint-Omer: 800 ans de mémoire vive (Paris: Centre Nationale de Research Scientifique, 2000).

"Binchois the Borrower", in Kirkman and Slavin (eds.), Binchois Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

"Musical Life at the Collegiate Church of Saint-Omer, Northern France, in the Fifteenth Century", Humanas (Revista do Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul), 21/1, pt. 2 (1998; appeared 2000). (Proceedings of the II Encontro Internacional de Estudos Medievais, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 23-6 September, 1997).

"Quinti toni in Context: Currents in Three-voice Mass Writing in the later Fifteenth Century", in Philippe Vendrix (ed.), Johannes Ockeghem: Actes du Xle Colloque international d'études humanistes (Paris: Klincksieck, 1999).

With Philip Weller: "Binchois's Texts", Music and Letters 77/4 (November, 1996).

"Innovation, Stylistic Patterns and the Writing of History: The Case of Bedyngham's Mass Deuil angouisseux", in Peter Wright and Marco Gozzi (eds.), I Codici Musicali Trentini: Nuove scoperte e nuovi orientamenti della ricerca (Trento: Provincia autonoma di Trento, 1996).

"The Transmission and Style of English Mass Cycles in the Mid to Late Fifteenth Century: A Case Study in Context", Music and Letters 75/2 (May, 1994).

"The Style of Walter Frye and an Anonymous Mass in Brussels, MS 5557", Early Music History 11 (1992).

"Some Early Fauxbourdons by Dufay and his Contemporaries: A Study in Liturgically-motivated Musical Style", Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 40/1 (1990).

Various essays on Music and Musical Life at the Collegiate Church of Saint- Omer in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

Philippe Vendrix (ed.), Johannes Ciconia: musicien de la transition (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2003), Music and Letters (in progress).

Elaine Moohan and Murray Steib (eds.), Johannes Martini: Masses (2 vols., Madison: A-R editions, 1999), Notes 60/3, March, 2004.

Jessie Ann Owens, Composers at Work: The Craft of Musical Composition, 1450-1600 (Oxford, 1997), Journal of the American Musicological Society 55/ 1, Spring, 2002.

James Grier, The Critical Editing of Music: History, Method and Practice (Cambridge, 1996), Notes 57/ 3, March, 2001.

Fabrice Fitch, Johannes Ockeghem: Masses and Models (Paris, 1997), Early Music, February, 1999.

Gareth Curtis (ed.), The Office Hymns of Guillaume Dufay (Plainsong and Medieval Music Society), Early Music, May, 1993.

Nick Sandon (ed.), The Bodleian Year-Books Mass and Andrew Wathey (ed.), Berkeley Castle, Select Roll 55 (Antico), Early Music, August, 1992.

Gareth Curtis (ed.), The Brussels Masses, (Early English Church Music 34), and Nick Sandon (ed.), editions of Masses by Cox and Plummer (Antico), Plainsong and Medieval Music I, 1992.

Willem Elders: Composers of the Low Countries (Oxford: OUP, 1991) Early Music, August, 1991.

Maria Rika Maniates (ed.): The Combinative Chanson: An Anthology (Madison: A-R Editions, 1990), Early Music, August, 1990.

Area editor and contributor, 'Sacred Music, c.1400-1520,' in Laura Macy (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Early Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Articles written or revised for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (London: Macmillan, 2001): "Caput", "Mass, II, 6-9", "Missa Brevis", "Missa Dominicalis", "Maundy Music".

"A Cloistered Art: Music Connoisseurship and Private Music-making in a Late Medieval Religious Foundation", Ars musica septentrionalis, international conference in Cambrai and Douai, France, November 24, 2005.

"Whose Head? New Light on the 'Caput' Masses", Annual Congress of the American Musicological Society, Washington, DC, October 29, 2005.

"Secular Music in the Mass", Eastman School of Music, March 18, 2004; Ohio State University, May 17, 2004; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, January 28, 2005, Medieval Club of New York, February 3, 2006.

"L'homme armé: a New Hypothesis", Twenty-sixth Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, prima edizione italiana, Spoleto, Italy, July 26, 2001; Seventeenth Congress of the International Musicological Society, Leuven/ Louvain, Belgium, August 5, 2002; 'Music in the Renaissance: A Round Table', Lisbon - Évora, Portugal, May 27, 2003; 'Early Music: Context and Ideas: International Conference in Musicology', Cracow, Poland, September 21, 2003; Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Houston, Texas, November 15, 2003; Princeton University, December 2, 2003; Durham University, January 21, 2004; Renaissance Society of America Annual Congress, New York, April 2, 2004.

"Aspects of Music at the Collegiate Church of Saint-Omer in the Later Middle Ages", 'La musique et les villes à la Renaissance', Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, March 20, 2000; International Symposium on Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Music at Kloster Neustift/ Novacella, Italy, July 29, 2000.

"From Humanism to Enlightenment: Reinventing Josquin", 'New Directions in Josquin Scholarship', conference at Princeton University, October 31, 1999.

"Personal Endowment: the Economic Engine of the 'Cyclic' Mass?", 'Business Unusual: Making Music and Money in Early Modern Europe', a symposium at New York University, March 27, 1999.

"A Cloistered Art: Music Connoisseurship and Private Music-making in a Late Medieval Religious Foundation", Twenty-fourth Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, University of York, July, 1998.

"Hegel, Brendel, Ambros and the Mass: towards the Renaissance 'Masterwork'", 'Table Ronde: La Renaissance au XIXe siècle', Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, June 18-20, 1998.

"Negotiating Form and Content in Fifteenth-century Music: a View through some Mass movements by Binchois", 'Borderline Areas in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-century Music', conference at Kloster Neustift/ Novacella, Italy, July 24-27, 1997.

"Music and Musical Life at the Collegiate Church of Saint-Omer, c.1460-1504", 'Music and Musicians in Urban Societies: Culture, Community and Change, 1400-1600', Conference at Royal Holloway, University of London, 25 April, 1997; Sixteenth Congress of the International Musicological Society, London, 14-20 August, 1997; II Encontro Internacional de Estudos Medievais, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 25 September, 1997.

"Quinti toni in Context: Currents in Three-voice Mass Writing in the later Fifteenth Century", Colloque sur Johannes Ockeghem et la Culture Musicale dans le Royaume de France au XVe Siècle, Tours, February 5, 1997.

"Innovation, Stylistic Patterns and the Writing of History: The Case of Bedyngham's Mass Deuil angouisseux", University of New Hampshire, November 7, 1995, Harvard University, November 14, 1995, Brandeis University, November 17, 1995, University of Surrey, January 31, 1996, University College, Cork, March 10, 1996.

"Contrast and Cohesion in some Mass Movements by Binchois", meeting of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, Birmingham, October 15, 1994; Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Minneapolis, October 29, 1994.

2004 Rutgers University Research Council: grant for cost of microfilms for use in archival research project on Saint-Omer, Northern France.

2001 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend for archival work in Saint-Omer.

1999 Rutgers University Research Council: grant for travel and costs of materials for a research trip to Oxford, U.K.; subvention for cost of book cover for Kirkman and Slavin (eds.), Binchois Studies.

1997 Jointly with Philip Weller: 'the Westrup Prize' for an outstanding contribution to Music and Letters in 1996 (awarded for "Binchois's Texts").

1996 Research grants for archival research in Saint-Omer from Music and Letters and Jesus College, Oxford.

1995 Grant from the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society towards rehearsal costs for recording of Dufay: Music for St Anthony of Padua.

1994 British Academy Small Personal Research Grant for archival research in Saint-Omer.

Music in Tudor England
Expression and Expressivity in the Music of the Renaissance
Models for the Mass: the Meaning of the Cantus Firmus in the Later Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries
Notation of Western music, 9th-17th centuries
Introduction to music research
Techniques of music research (the changing nature of the musical text and musical work, considered via a series of representative case studies, 15th-20th century)
The origins and early history of the polyphonic Mass

Music in the 1960s
The Blues
Wagner's Ring
The Supernatural in German Romantic Opera (musical and dramaturgical studies of operas by Weber, Marschner and Wagner, considered also in the context of the Gothic novel, related litererary criticism, and contemporary painting).
Introduction to Music
History of Western music, origins-1750
Music and Theatre, Weber-present (selected operas from Der Freischütz to Nixon in China)
Music and Theatre, Monteverdi-Mozart (selected operas from Monteverdi's L'Orfeo to Le Nozze di Figaro)

Director of Rutgers Collegium Musicum (music ensemble for performance of Renaissance music), 2000-

Commercial recordings:
1) Madrigalists at Prayer: Sacred Music by the Masters of Sixteenth-Century Italy released 2004 on Direct-to-Tape (DTR) label.
2) Music from Renaissance Poland, recorded August, 2006, released 2007 (DTR label).

Director of 'Musica Raritana,' orchestra and chamber ensemble dedicated to performance of baroque and classical repertoire on period instruments. Performance of programme of C.P.E. Bach's Hamburg benefit Concert of April, 1786 with a combination of professional soloists and orchestral principals with student instrumentalists and Rutgers Kirkpatrick Choir, April 17, 2004; programme of 'Sturm und Drang,' music by Haydn, Vanhal, J.C. Bach and Antonio Rossetti, April 16, 2005; performances of Dido and Aeneas, November 11 and 13, 2005; 'In the House of the Devil,' music by Mozart, Vanhal, C.P.E. Bach and Boccherini, April 1, 2006; 'Sons of Bach,' music by W.F., C.P.E. and J.C.F. Bach, St Bartholomew's Church, New York City, October 26, 2006, Rutgers, October 28, 2006; Handel, Athalia, April 14 and 15, 2007; 'Masters of the Early Symphony,' music by Sammartini and others, October 27, 2007.

2) University of Wales Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1992-4.

Debussy studies
Performance practice, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Music in France and Burgundy (fifteenth-early sixteenth centuries)
Josquin and his contemporaries

Teaching also included supervision of bachelors' and masters' dissertations (fourteenth century to sixteenth century, and nineteenth-century opera).

Other duties included conducting the University Orchestra (including performance of Shostakovitch, Symphony no. 5).

Analysis of medieval and renaissance forms
History of the cyclic Mass in the fifteenth century
Film music
Studies in performance practice
Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century settings of L'homme armé
Verdi's Otello
Supervision of third year dissertations and transcription exercises.
Harmony, Counterpoint and keyboard techniques
Personal tutor to small groups of undergraduates from each academic year

Conductor of department choir in concert series of contemporary/ early music
Organisation of two professional concert series: Manchester Early Music Series (with Royal Northern College of Music); lunchtime recitals series
Organisation and installation of department computer facilities

Amherst Early Music Festival, Storrs, Connecticut, August, 2001. Director of Festival collegium and motet ensemble.

Course director of 'Music in Late Medieval Culture', a special subject class forming part of the Medieval Studies Summer School, University of Cambridge, 4-6 August, 1997.

Teacher (with The Hilliard Ensemble) on The Hilliard Ensemble Summer School of Music, Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, July 27-30, 1997. Coaching small vocal ensembles in music extending from the Middle Ages to works by living composers.

Teaching assistant in music history (baroque to twentieth century) at Princeton University, 1988.

Session Chair, 'Collecting French Polyphony,' AMS National Congress, Québec City, November 2007.

Panel member, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends, 2001, 2002.

With Alexander Ivashkin, "Shostakovich Centenary Symposium," Rutgers University, April 7-9, 2006.

With Dennis Slavin: "First International Conference on Gilles de Bins, dit Binchois", Graduate Center of the City University of New York, October 31-November 1, 1995.

Interview and performance with 'The Binchois Consort' in BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune' programme, June 30, 2004. Concert at York Festival, plus interview with myself, recorded and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, October, 2004. Various interviews on BBC Radio 3 in connection with the award of 'Early Music Recording of the Year' by The Gramophone for "Music for St James the Greater and other early Works by Guillaume Dufay" (see below) (October-November, 1999).

Introductions and commentaries for three programmes featuring the three Caput Masses, performed by the Hilliard Ensemble, BBC Radio 3, broadcast August, 1995.

Director of "The Binchois Consort", a professional vocal ensemble. All recordings with Hyperion Records.

Liturgical performances of Dufay's Missa Sancti Anthonii Paduensis and Missa Sancti Jacobi, the Oxford Oratory, June 13, 1995 and May 24, 1997. Further performances given in Oxford and Cambridge, 1997. Resident group for International Conference: 'New Directions in Josquin Scholarship', Princeton University, October 29-31, 1999; concerts in Princeton, New Brunswick and New York, October-November, 1999. Concert at the Flanders Festival (Antwerp, Belgium), August 30, 2001, broadcast live on Belgian national radio. Concert at the Bonmont Festival, Switzerland, June 9, 2002. Concerts at Durham Cathedral, May 26, 2004; Stour Festival, June 19, 2004, York Minster (York Early Music Festival), July 5, 2004. Concerts in 'Misteria Paschalia' Cracow (Poland), March 28, 2005, 'Tage alter Musik' (Regensburg), May 15, 2005, broadcast by Bayerische Rundfunk; Flanders Festival (Antwerp), August 26, 2005, broadcast on Belgian national radio; Utrecht Festival, August 27, 2005. Maastricht Early Music Festival, September 16, 2006, broadcast on Dutch national radio. Festival of Madeira (Gulbenkian Foundation), June 29, 2007. Trento Musicantica, Trento, Italy, October 4, 2007, plus interview on Italian radio.

Supervision (editions, liner notes, etc.) of a CD by the Hilliard Ensemble, "For Ockeghem", recorded by the BBC, September 11, 1996, broadcast and released in 1997.

Director of "La Brigata", an ensemble of professional singers and lute specialising in late medieval music, 1990-92. Early Music Network concert and lecture tour, November, 1990: "The Lion of St Mark comes to Land: the music of Venice and her Dominions in the Early Fifteenth Century"; concerts in London and at the York Festival, 1991: "Au Bois Joly: Medieval Music for Robin and Marion"; Little Missenden Festival, 1992: "A Marriage of England and Burgundy".