Iain Fenlon ( born Iain Fenlon , b. October 26, 1949, Prestbury, Cheshire ) - British music historian. He specializes in Western European (mainly Italian) Renaissance and early Baroque music.
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He defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Cambridge in 1977. He completed an internship at the University of Birmingham (1974-75), at the Florentine Center for Italian Renaissance Studies "Villa I Tatti" (1975-76), at King's College Cambridge (1976-83). Since 1996, he has been teaching (professor) the history of music at King's College, Cambridge University . Visiting professor at various educational institutions in Europe (including the Paris École Normale Supérieure, 1998-99) and the USA. Honorary curator of the music collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge).
Fenlon is the author of many articles and several monographs, of which the two-volume “Music and Patronage in Mantua of the 16th Century” (1980-82) is best known. One of the founders (1981) and editor-in-chief of the annual “Early Music History” - an authoritative scientific journal dedicated to ancient music [1] . Fenlon is also known as an editor of musical editions of ancient music and compiler of scientific catalogs of musical collections of the University of Birmingham and the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Notes
- ↑ Produced under the patronage of the University of Cambridge. Not to be confused with another authoritative British magazine with a similar name - “Early Music” (founded in 1973), which is published 4 times a year by the University of Oxford.
Compositions
Monographs
- Catalog of the printed music and music manuscripts before 1801 in the Music Library of the University of Birmingham. London, 1976.
- Music and patronage in sixteenth-century Mantua. 2 vls. Cambridge, 1980, 1982.
- (co-author J. Haar). The Italian madrigal in the early sixteenth-century. Cambridge, 1988.
- Music, print and culture in early sixteenth-century Italy. London, 1995.
- The ceremonial city: history, memory and myth in Renaissance Venice. New Haven, 2007.
- Piazza San Marco. Cambridge (Mass.), 2009 (non-fiction edition of the Wonders of the World series)
Articles (selection)
- (co-author J. Haar) A Source for the Early Madrigal // JAMS, 33 (1980), pp. 164-80.
- Music and Italian Renaissance Painting // Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music, ed. by D.Fallows and T.Knighton. London, 1992), pp. 189-209.
- Heinrich Glarean's Books // Music in the German Renaissance, ed. J. Kmetz. Cambridge, 1994, pp. 74-102.
- Giaches de Wert: the Early Years // RBM 42 (1998), pp. 377-97.
- Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy. Oxford, 2002 (collection of articles from different years)
Editing Collections
- Music in medieval and early modern Europe: patronage, sources, and texts, ed. by Iain Fenlon. Cambridge (Mass.), 1981.
- Studi marenziani / a cura di Iain Fenlon e Franco Piperno. Venezia: Fondazione Levi, 2003.