Profile:
Jeanice Brooks studied singing and music education in the U.S. and in France before completing the Ph.D. in Musicology and French Literature at the Catholic University of America. She taught at Georgetown University before taking up an appointment in 1990 at the University of Southampton (UK) where she is currently Reader in Music. Her doctoral dissertation (1990) treated musical settings of poetry by the sixteenth-century writer Pierre de Ronsard, and since then she has continued to work on aspects of French music and culture in the Renaissance; she has also published in the field of twentieth century French music. Her most recent major project is a book on the strophic air de cour in the context of court culture, Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France (University of Chicago Press, 2000), which received the Roland H. Bainton prize from the Sixteenth Century Conference for the best book in music or art history to be published that year. She has published critical editions of the works of sixteenth-century composers François Regnard, Jean de Castro and Guillaume Boni, and her articles have appeared in Journal of the American Musicological Society, Early Music History, Early Music, Revue de musicologie, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and Revue belge de musicologie. Since 1999, she has been an editor of Music & Letters. She has received fellowships and research awards from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Arts and Humanities Research Board and the British Academy, and in 1996 was co-recipient of the American Musicological Society’s Noah Greenberg Award, for the best project combining scholarly research and performance practice.
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