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)

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: Images of Royalty, Martyrdom and Masculinity (forthcoming, York Medieval Press)

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

forthcoming

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

forthcoming