Description:
2023 marks 400 years since the death of English renaissance composer, William Byrd. Byrd's rich musical oeuvre and storied career has long captured the attention of audiences and scholars alike. This all-new collected edition marks his anniversary with thirteen brand-new essays from leading scholars on Byrd's musical life and legacy.
Brief description: Samantha Bassler is a scholar and educator who teaches in the music departments at NYU Steinhardt and Rutgers University at Newark and owns and teaches at Stellar Music Space, her own private music school in Brooklyn, NY. As a disabled and neurodivergent academic, her research is focused on music and disability, from an advocacy perspective and to better understand the social concept of disability in early modern cultures. After co-editing Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (2019), she has been expanding her work on early music and disability into a book project that is under consideration with Boydell and Brewer. She is also active in music and disability justice initiatives at the American Musicological Society, where she gave three talks at the 2022 conference, all centred around acceptance of neurodivergent and disabled scholars and students.
Review Quotes:
'A compendium of twelve new essays, the volume is a worthy successor to the esteemed 1992 collection Byrd Studies ... and likewise provides a definitive representation of the best Byrd research of its time.'
Daniel Page, NABMSA Reviews (Vol. 11, No. 1)