Profile

Biography

Jonathan Wainwright is a musicologist and performer. He has published extensively on English and Italian music of the 16th and 17th centuries, is an editor of scholarly editions and of contemporary English church music, and his CD recordings range from Medieval carols through to Percy Whitlock’s Organ Symphony. He was editor of the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle from 1994 to 2010.

He was educated at Durham University, the Royal Academy of Music, and St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. From 1989 to 1996 he was a College Lecturer at Oxford and from 1994 to 1996 held a half-time Lectureship at the Open University.

In 1996 he moved to York to take up a joint appointment shared between the Department of Music and York Minster where he was Director of the Girls Choir. He has been full-time at the University since 2001 and in 2007 became Head of Department.

Departmental roles

• Head of Department
  

Research

Overview

• 16th- and 17th-century English and Italian music
• Editing
• Performance practice
• English Church Music
  

Grants

• Small Grant in the Creative and Performing Arts (1999) Arts and Humanities Research Board
• C.B. Oldman prize International Association of Music Libraries for an outstanding work of music bibliography for The Viola da Gamba Society’s Index of Manuscripts Containing Consort Music joint compiler with Andrew Ashbee & Robert Thompson (Ashgate, Aldershot & Burlington, Vermont, Vol. 1: 2001)
• Research Leave Award Spring Term 2004: Arts and Humanities Research Board

Publications

Selected publications

• ‘Monteverdi’s Vespers (1610)’, in The Cambridge History of Musical Performance, ed. Colin Lawson & Robin Stowell, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2012, pp. 448–69
• ‘Richard Dering’s Few-Voice Concertato Motets’, Music & Letters 89, 2008, pp. 165–94
• Richard Dering: Motets for One, Two or Three Voices and Basso Continuo, Musica Britannica 87, Stainer & Bell: London, 2008
• ‘Sounds of Piety and Devotion: Music in the Queen’s Chapel’, in Erin Griffey (ed.), Henrietta Maria: Piety, Politics and Patronage, Ashgate: Aldershot & Burlington VT, 2008, pp. 195–213
• The Viola da Gamba Society’s Index of Manuscripts Containing Consort Music (with Andrew Ashbee & Robert Thompson), Ashgate: Aldershot & Burlington VT, Vol. 1: 2001; Vol. 2: 2008
• John Blow: Latin Motets, York Early Music Press: York, 2005
• From Renaissance to Baroque: Changes in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century – Proceedings of the National Early Music Association Conference, York, July 1999 (ed. with Peter Holman), Ashgate: Aldershot & Burlington VT, 2005
• CD Percy Whitlock: Organ Symphony in G Minor for Organ and Orchestra (1936–7); Francis Jackson: Concerto for Organ, Strings, Timpani and Celeste Op. 64 (University of York Symphony Orchestra directed by Jonathan Wainwright with Francis Jackson, organ); 2000: Amphion Recordings PHI CD 155 (a world première commercial recording)
• ‘The King’s Music’, in Thomas N. Corns (ed.), The Royal Image:  Representations of Charles I, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1999, pp. 162–75
• ‘The Dissemination and Influence of Monteverdi’s Music in England in the Seventeenth Century’, in Silke Leopold and Joachim Steinheuer (eds), Claudio Monteverdi und die Folgen: Bericht über das Internationale Symposium, Detmold 1993, Bärenreiter: Kassel, 1998, pp. 105–21
• ‘Images of Virtue and War: Music in Civil War Oxford’, in Andrew Ashbee (ed.), William Lawes: 1602–1645 Essays on His Life, Times and Work, Ashgate: Aldershot & Brookfield VT, 1998, pp. 121–42
• Musical Patronage in Seventeenth-Century England: Christopher, First Baron Hatton (1605–70) , Scolar Press: Aldershot & Brookfield VT, 1997
• CD Queen of Heavenly Virtue (Concertare directed by Jonathan Wainwright): Music for Henrietta Maria’s Chapel in Oxford; 1997: Isis Records CD023
  Record of the Month: Hi-Fi World January 1998
• CD Ther is no rose of swych vertu (Cantores Collegiorum directed by Jonathan Wainwright): Carols for a Medieval Christmas; 1997: Isis Records CD032
• ‘From Barnard to Purcell: The Copying Activities of Stephen Bing (1610–1681)’ (with Sarah Bower), Early Music 23, 1995, pp. 620–48

Full publications list

You can find a full list of Jonathan Wainwright's publications and research activities here.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Constructing Music History
• Editing Early Music
• Music and Liturgy in England c.1500–1640
• Music and Drama in Italy 1589–1643
• Monteverdi
• Music and Patronage in Seventeenth-Century England
• Purcell

Postgraduate

• English Church Music 1549-present