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Jonathan Wainwright – Publications

(i) Books

(1) Authored books

  • Musical Patronage in Seventeenth-Century England: Christopher, First Baron Hatton (1605–70), Scolar Press: Aldershot & Brookfield VT, 1997

    Reviewed in Brio 35 (1998), 32–3; The Consort 54 (1998), 75–7; Canadian University Music Review 20 (1999), 121–5; Notes 55/3 (1999), 651–2; Seventeenth Century News 57 (1999), 86–90
  • The Viola da Gamba Society’s Index of Manuscripts Containing Consort Music Volume 1 (with Andrew Ashbee & Robert Thompson), Ashgate: Aldershot & Burlington VT, 2001

    Awarded the International Association of Music Libraries C.B. Oldman prize for an outstanding work of music bibliography. Reviewed in Music & Letters 84 (2003), 84–7
  • The Viola da Gamba Society’s Index of Manuscripts Containing Consort Music Volume 2 (with Andrew Ashbee & Robert Thompson), Ashgate: Aldershot & Burlington VT, 2008

    Reviewed in Music & Letters 90 (2009), 76–82

(2) Edited books and music

  • 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

    Reviewed in Early Music 34 (2006), 483–6; Galpin Society Journal 59 (2006), 280–1; Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006), 558–9
  • John Blow: Latin Motets, York Early Music Press: York, 2005

    Reviewed in Early Music 35 (2007), 644–7
  • Nicolas Gombert: Missa Media Vita, York Early Music Press: York, 2007

    Edition prepared for The Hilliard Ensemble recording: ECM 1884
  • Richard Dering: Motets for One, Two or Three Voices and Basso Continuo, Musica Britannica 87, Stainer & Bell, London, 2008

    Reviewed in Early Music 37 (2009), 485–7 & Music & Letters 92 (2011), 282–5
  • Nicolas Gombert: Six Motets, York Early Music Press: York, 2009

    Editions prepared for The Hilliard Ensemble recording (ECM 1884)
  • Reappraising the Seicento: Compositional Procedure in Italy and England (joint editor with Andrew Cheetham and Joseph Knowles), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014
  • Richard Dering: Motets and Anthems , Musica Britannica 98, Stainer & Bell: London, 2015
  • William Child: The First Set of Psalmes of .III. Voyces (1639), York Early Music Press: York, 2015
  • John Wilson: Psalterium Carolinum (1657), York Early Music Press: York, forthcoming 2015
  • Walter Porter: Collected Works, Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, A-R Editions, Middleton, WI, forthcoming 2016

(ii) Chapters in books

  • ‘Purcell and the English Baroque’, in Michael Burden (ed.), The Purcell Companion, Faber & Faber: London, 1995, pp. 21–37
  • ‘The Christ Church Viol-Consort Manuscripts Reconsidered: Christ Church, Oxford Music Manuscripts 2, 497–408 & 436; 417–418 & 1080; and 432 & 612–613’, in Andrew Ashbee & Peter Holman (eds), John Jenkins and his Time: Studies in English Consort Music, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1996, pp. 198–241
  • ‘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
  • ‘The King’s Music’, in T.N. Corns (ed.), The Royal Image:  Representations of Charles I, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1999, pp. 162–75
  • ‘From “Renaissance” to “Baroque”?’, in Jonathan P. Wainwright & Peter Holman (ed.), 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, Ashgate: Aldershot & Burlington VT, 2005, pp. 1–21
  • ‘England, ii: 1603–1642’, in James Haar (ed.), European Music, 1520-1640, Boydell & Brewer: Woodbridge & Rochester NY, 2006, pp. 509–26
  • ‘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
  • ‘Monteverdi’s Vespers (1610)’, in The Cambridge History of Musical Performance, ed. Colin Lawson & Robin Stowell, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2012, pp. 448–69
  • ‘Widening the Cambridge Circle: Further High Church Musical Connections’, in Music and Worship in Early Seventeenth-Century Cambridge: The Peterhouse Partbooks in Context, ed. Scott Mandelbrote, Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge & Rochester NY, forthcoming

(iii) Articles in journals

(1) Refereed

  • ‘George Jeffreys’ Copies of Italian Music’, The Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 23, 1990, pp. 109–24
  • ‘From Barnard to Purcell: The Copying Activities of Stephen Bing (1610–1681)’ (with Sarah Bower), Early Music 23, 1995, pp. 620–48
  • ‘Richard Dering’s Few-Voice Concertato Motets’, Music & Letters 89, 2008, pp. 165–94

(2) Non-Refereed

  • ‘A Curious History Untangled [The New Organ at Pembroke College, Oxford]’ (with David Titterington), Choir and Organ 3, 1995, pp. 31–4

(iv) Papers published in refereed conference proceedings

  • ‘The Dissemination and Influence of Monteverdi’s Music in England in the Seventeenth Century’, Claudio Monteverdi und die Folgen (International Monteverdi Conference), Detmold, November 1993; published 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

(v) Editorial duties

  • Editor of the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle (1994–2010)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association (1994–2010)
  • Associate Editor for the New Dictionary of National Biography (1995–2003)
  • Joint editor of the Viola da Gamba Society’s Index of Manuscript Sources (1995–present)

(vi) Practice-based research

(1) CD Recordings

  • Voices of Christmas (Cantores Collegiorum directed by Jonathan Wainwright with Martin Souter, organ): Sixteenth century ‘in alternatim’ Christmas plainchant and organ music from the Sarum Rite; 1995: Isis Records CD015
  • 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
  • Ther is no rose of swych vertu (Cantores Collegiorum directed by Jonathan Wainwright): Carols for a Medieval Christmas; 1997: Isis Records CD032
  • 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 Complete New English Hymnal – Volume 1 (including hymns performed by the Girl Choristers and Songmen of York Minster directed by Jonathan Wainwright with John Scott Whiteley, organ); 2000: Priory PRCD 701
  • Masters of the Music (including pieces performed by the Girl Choristers and Songmen of York Minster directed by Jonathan Wainwright with John Scott Whiteley, organ); 2000: York Ambisonic CD 164

(2) Concerts – highlights include:

  • St Paul’s Cathedral: Solo Organ Recital (May 1983)
  • New College, Oxford: John Blow’s Venus and Adonis (New Chamber Opera, February 1992); soloists included Robin Blaze
  • New College, Oxford: Georg Philipp Telemann’s Pimpinone (New Chamber Opera, June 1993); soloists included Roddy Williams
  • Beverley Early Music Festival: Music by Palestrina, Giovanni Gabrieli and Monteverdi – Concertare, QuintEssential Cornetts & Sackbuts, and Choirs from East Yorkshire (Beverley Minster, May 1997)
  • York Minster: Solo Organ Recital (March 1999)
  • Sine Nomine (choir) and Concerto Polacco (Baroque orchestra): ‘Purcell and his Contemporaries’ (Protestant Church, Warsaw, April 1999)
  • York Early Music Festival (opening concert): ‘Music for St Mark’s Venice’ – Concertare, QuintEssential Cornetts & Sackbuts, and Choir of York Minster (York Minster, July 1999)
  • Sine Nomine (choir) and Concerto Polacco (Baroque orchestra): Tenth Anniversary Concert – Handel’s Israel in Egypt (Protestant Church, Warsaw, September 2001)
  • Whitlock Organ Symphony, Parry Blest Pair of Sirens & Elgar Coronation Ode: Francis Jackson (organ), University of York Choir and Orchestra (York Minster, June 2003)

(vii) Other works

(1) Miscellaneous

  • BBC Music Weekly Talk: The Dissemination and Influence of Italian Music in England in the Seventeenth Century (broadcast 3 & 5 March 1991)
  • Articles on works by Blow, Britten, Elgar, Finzi, Howells, Purcell and Tippett in Marc Honegger (ed.), Dictionnaire de l’Art Vocal, Bordas: Paris, 1992
  • ‘Bing, Stephen’, ‘Dering Richard’, ‘Hatton, Christopher’, in Stanley Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition, Macmillan: London, 2001
  • ‘Jeffreys, George’, in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2nd edition, Bärenreiter: Kassel, 2003
  • ‘Bing, Stephen’, ‘Dering, Richard’, ‘Jeffreys, George’, in New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004
  • Review of John Cunningham, The Consort Music of William Lawes 1602–1645, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2010 in Early Music History, 31 (2012), 285–90
  • ‘Cataloguing the Oxford Music School Collection’, Christ Church Library Newsletter, 8/1–3 (2011–2012), 10–12
  • ‘Notari, Angelo’ in Dizionario biografico degli Italiani (Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani), vol. 78, forthcoming

(2) Editions of Church Music (all ed. with Vernon Hoyle)

  • Cantica Nova – A Collection of New Anglican Chants, Brighouse: Kirklees Music, 1997 (contributor & editor)
  • Kirklees Cathedral Music Series, Brighouse: Kirklees Music

    Draw Near With Faith – Ten Anthems for Holy Communion, 1997
    
The Lord’s Name be Praised – Seven Settings of the Preces, Responses and Lord’s Prayer, 1997
    
Come Holy Ghost – A Collection of Anthems for Pentecost or General Use, 1998

    God is Gone Up – A Collection of Anthems for Ascensiontide or General Use, 1998
  • Nowell! Nowell! – Christmas Carols for S.A.B. Chorus, York: Banks Music Publications, 2000

(3) Web Publication

  • Singing Music from 1500 to 1900: Style, Technique, Knowledge, Assertion, Experiment. Proceedings of the National Early Music Association International Conference ( joint editor with John Potter) (October 2011) <http://www.york.ac.uk/music/conferences/nema/>

Other Research Activities and Distinctions

(1) Conference Papers

  • ‘Manuscript Sources Associated with Angelo Notari’, Lute Society Conference: Oxford, November 1986
  • ‘Civil-War Oxford: A Centre for the Dissemination of Italian Music in England?’, Viola da Gamba Society Conference: London, February 1987
  • ‘Sir Christopher Hatton (1605–1670), Musical Patron and Collector’, 22nd Royal Musical Association Research Students’ Conference: London, December 1988
  • ‘Christopher, First Baron Hatton (1605–1670): A Case Study in Seventeenth-Century English Musical Patronage’, paper and chair of round-table session, Fourth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music: London, July 1990
  • ‘The Dissemination and Influence of Monteverdi’s Music in England in the Seventeenth Century’, Claudio Monteverdi und die Folgen (International Monteverdi Conference): Detmold, November 1993 (invited presentation)
  • ‘From Barnard to Purcell: the Copying Activities of Stephen Bing’, Sixth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music: Edinburgh, July 1994
  • ‘The Dissemination and Influence of Italian Music in England in the Seventeenth Century’, Royal Musical Association Annual Conference: Cambridge, April 1995
  • ‘The Christ Church Viol Manuscripts Reconsidered’, Viola da Gamba Society Conference – The Fantasia in England from Alfonso Ferrabosco II to Henry Purcell: York, July 1995
  • ‘Civil-War Oxford: a Centre for Italian and Italianate Music?’, The William Lawes Festival: Oxford, September 1995
  •  ‘Images of Virtue and War: Music for Queen Henrietta Maria’s Chapel’, Sixth Annual Conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, April 1998 [also played harpsichord in lecture-recital given by Cathy Dew (recorder)]
  • ‘Music at the Court of Charles I’, National Portrait Gallery Study Day: London, January 2001 (invited presentation)
  • ‘The “Baroque” in Music: New Perspectives’, Rethinking the Baroque Conference: Castle Howard, July 2006
  • ‘Richard Dering and the “English Baroque”’, Twelfth Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music: Warsaw, July 2006
  • ‘Studying Music Manuscripts: an Introduction’, Music Archival Research Skills Conference: Minster Library, York, May 2007
  • ‘Cataloguing Music Manuscripts’ roundtable presentation, Bodleian Library Oxford: November 2008 (invited presentation)
  • ‘Queen Henriette Marie and Sir Christopher Hatton III: Rediscovering the Music for the Queen’s Chapel’: Court Studies Conference, London, November 2009 (invited presentation)
  • ‘English Collectors I: Christopher Hatton’, STINT Network Meeting (Royal Holloway), Round-Table on Collectors and Collecting: Egham, April 2013, (invited presentation)
  • ‘Widening the Cambridge Circle: Further High Church Musical Connections [of the Peterhouse Caroline Partbooks]’, Peterhouse Manuscripts Conference: September 2010 (invited presentation)
  • ‘Future Projects Parallel to Christ Church (3): On Plans for Cataloguing the Oxford University Music School Collection (now Curated by the Bodleian Library)’, Christ Church Music Study Day – Celebrating the Completion of Online Catalogue of the Music Collection: Christ Church, Oxford, November 2012 (invited presentation)
  • ‘English Collectors I: Christopher Hatton', STINT Network Meeting (Royal Holloway), Round-Table on Collectors and Collecting: Egham, April 2013 (invited presentation)

(2) Miscellaneous

  • Invited to present research seminars at Surrey University (1995), Bangor University (1998 & 2005), Huddersfield University (2000 & 2010), Newcastle University (2001), Aberdeen University (2003), Sheffield University (2007), Open University (2007), Birmingham University (2009)
  • Organizer of Royal Musical Association Research Students’ Conferences, University of York, December 1998 and January 2010 conference
  • Joint organizer of National Early Music Association Conferences, York, July 1999 and July 2009

(3) Prize

  • International Association of Music Libraries C.B. Oldman prize for an outstanding work of music bibliography awarded for Andrew Ashbee, Robert Thompson & Jonathan P. Wainwright, The Viola da Gamba Society’s Index of Manuscripts Containing Consort Music Volume 1, Ashgate: Aldershot & Burlington VT, 2001

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Professor Jonathan Wainwright
School of Arts and Creative Technologies
University of York
York
YO10 5GB

Tel: +44 (0) 1904 32 4748