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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, theater, 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

  • ‘After the affection of the noate’: intersemiotic translations of Petrarch in the English madrigal tradition.  156-188. 2025
  • 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

  • ‘Booted, to Betoken’: Bonny Boots, Thomas Watson, and the Discovery of a New Oriana.  Music & Letters. 1-19. 2026
  • 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.  The 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 & 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.  The 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 & 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

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