Music in Pre-Reformation York: A New Source and Some Thoughts on the York Masses

Plainsong and Medieval Music, 12/1 (April, 2003), 71-88

Choral Music in York, 1400 - 1540

in Paul Barnwell, Claire Cross and Ann Rycraft eds., Mass and Parish in Late Medieval England: The Use of York (Reading, 2005)

Scrupulosa

Free download available from the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society website

An edition of the plainchant sequence 'Scrupulosa', according to the Use of York, and taken from the only full copy of the text with its music to have survived, the 15th-century York Gradual. Text translated by Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

The articulation of virginity in the medieval chanson de nonne

Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 133/2 (November, 2008), 159 - 188

The chanson de nonne presents stereotypical images of young women whose bodies and voices are trapped within the confines of a nunnery. Close examination of the architectural
metaphors used to describe virginity and chastity in the Middle Ages allows comparisons to be made between the structures – metaphorical, musical and textual – that held fictitious nuns within the frame of the clerical imagination at the centre of thirteenth-century motet production.

Music and identity in medieval Bury St Edmunds

in Anthony Bale ed., St Edmund, King and Martry: Changing Images of a Medieval Saint (August 2009, York Medieval Press, Boydell)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/St-Edmund-King-Martyr-Changing/dp/1903153263/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241875849&sr=8-1

A unique source of English tablature from 17th-century Huddersfield

forthcoming

Richard Scrope's personal piety and the liturgy of medieval York

forthcoming