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Smith, Jeremy L

Professor

Positions

• Professor, College of Music

Research Areas

• Musicology/Music Theory

Research

research overview

• Jeremy Smith's research specialty is music history of the Renaissance era in England and the continent, with secondary interests in interdisciplinary studies, especially English portraiture and poetry, and progressive rock.

keywords

• English renaissance music, English portraiture, poetry, and progressive rock

Publications

selected publications

• book

  • Tallis and Byrd's Cantiones Sacrae (1575) A Sacred Argument 2023
  • Verse and Voice in Byrd's Song Collections of 1588 2020
  • Verse and Voice in Byrd's Song Collections of 1588 and 1589 2016
  • Sleuthing the Muse: Essays in Honor of William F. Prizer.  Ed. Smith, Jeremy L.  2012
  • Thomas East and Music Publishing in Renaissance England 2003

• chapter

  • Governmental Interference as a Shaping Force in Elizabethan Printed Music 2016
  • Turning a New Leaf: William Byrd, the East Music-Publishing Firm and the Jacobean Succession.  25-43. 2008
  • Music and the Cult of Elizabeth: The Politics of Panegyric and Sound 2006
  • Watermark Evidence and the Hidden Editions of Thomas East 2000

• journal article

  • American Progressives of the 1970s: A Colloquy.  American Music Research Center Journal. 1-4. 2019
  • Reading Carole King’s Tapestry as a Penelopean Retelling of the Homeric Odyssey.  41-73. 2019
  • What Do Shakespearean Musicians Think? Complementary Rhetorical Devices in Romeo and Juliet and Byrd's O that most rare breast.  Journal of Musicological Research. 336-363. 2017
  • The Sheffield portrait types, their Catholic purposes, and Mary Queen of Scots's tomb.  British Catholic History. 71-90. 2016
  • Lassus, Ferrabosco the Elder, Byrd, and the identification of Mary Queen of Scots as biblical Susanna.  Musical Times. 5-16. 2015
  • Byrd.  Music and Letters. 116-118. 2015
  • The dilatory space of While that the sun: Byrd, Tessier and the English sequence.  Early Music. 671-+. 2012
  • Mary Queen of Scots as Susanna.  209-220. 2011
  • 'Unlawful song': Byrd, the Babington plot and the Paget choir.  Early Music. 497-+. 2010
  • Revisiting the Origins of the Sheffield Series of Portraits of Mary Queen of Scots.  Burlington Magazine. 212-218. 2010
  • Musical ambition, cultural accreditation and the nasty side of progressive rock.  Popular Music. 433-455. 2008
  • William Byrd’s Fall from Grace and his First Solo Publication of 1588: A Shostakovian Respons to Just Critcism.  Music and Politics. 2007
  • A newly discovered edition of William Byrd's 'Psalmes, Sonets and Songs': Provenance and significance.  Notes. 273-298. 2005
  • Music and late Elizabethan politics: The identities of Oriana and Diana.  Journal of the American Musicological Society. 507-558. 2005
  • Computer Collation of Divergent Early prints in the Byrd Edition.  251-260. 2001
  • Print Culture and the Elizabethan Musician.  Fontes Artis Musicae. 156-172. 2001
  • FROM 'RIGHTS TO COPY' TO THE 'BIBLIOGRAPHIC EGO': A NEW LOOK AT THE LAST EARLY EDITION OF BYRD'S 'PSALMES, SONETS & SONGS'.  Music and Letters. 511-530. 1999
  • The Hidden Editions of Thomas East.  Notes. 1059. 1997

editor of

• book

  • Sleuthing the Muse: Essays in Honor of William F. Prizer 2012

Teaching

courses taught

• MUEL 1832 - Appreciation of Music
  Primary Instructor - Summer 2018 / Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 / Spring 2020 / Summer 2020 / Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Summer 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
  Introduces music, including the fundamental elements of music, the history of the Western tradition and its composers, the development of American popular music and aspects of World Music.
• MUSC 3802 - History of Western Music 1
  Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Summer 2020 / Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2021 / Summer 2022 / Fall 2022 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
  Surveys Western art music with stylistic analysis of representative works from all major periods through the Baroque. See also MUSC 3812.
• MUSC 4202 - Special Topic in Musicology: Current and Critical Issues
  Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2020
  Examination of a specific topic of current or critical interest within areas of music history, ethnomusicology, critical theoryand practice across the spectrum of Western, Popular and World Music traditions. Designed as a capstone course for music majors who have completed a full complement of musicology courses. Topics vary from term to term. Instructor consent is required for non-music majors.
• MUSC 5712 - Renaissance Music
  Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2018
  Provides a repertory and analysis of polyphonic music, 1400-1600. Same as MUSC 4712.
• MUSC 5832 - Studies in American Music
  Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2024
  Offers intensified work in folk, popular, and art music of the United States.
• MUSC 6822 - Advanced Studies in Musicology
  Primary Instructor - Fall 2019
  Intensive study of a specialized topic in musicology. Students will be guided in critical reading, historical or ethnographic issues, analysis, oral presentations, and independent research. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
• MUSC 7822 - Seminar in Musicology
  Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Spring 2023
  Required of all musicology majors before completion of comprehensive examinations. A different research area is designated each semester. Offered fall only.

Background

education and training

• Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara 1997
• M.F.A., University of California-Irvine 1990
• B.A., Washington College 1985

awards and honors

• BFA Award for Excellence in Teaching and Pedagogy, conferred by Boulder Faculty Assembly, 2011
• Richard S. Hill Award, conferred by Music Library Association, 2007
• Provost's Faculty Achievement Award for Tenured Faculty, conferred by Academic Affairs, 2006
• Richard S. Hill Award, conferred by Music Library Association, 2001

International Activities

geographic focus

• Canada  Country
• Ireland  Country
• Italy  Country
• United Kingdom  Country

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ORCID iD

• http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5335-1854