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Laurie Stras Author & Editor

Bonnie J. Blackburn, FBA, is a Member of the Faculty of Music at Oxford University and affiliated with Wolfson College. She specializes in music and music theory of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with a particular interest in compositional practice, early printing, and notation. Her monograph Music for Treviso Cathedral in the Late Sixteenth Century was published by Ashgate (1987) and a collection of her essays was also published by Ashgate in 2000, Composition, Printing and Performance. She has edited the music of Johannes Lupi and two volumes for the New Josquin Edition. Together with Edward E. Lowinsky and Clement A. Miller, she edited A Correspondence of Renaissance Musicians, and since 1993 she has been General Editor of the series Monuments of Renaissance Music. She is also the author, together with Leofranc Holford-Strevens, of The Oxford Companion to the Year.

Laurie Stras is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton, UK. She is editor of She’s So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music (Ashgate, 2010) and the author of numerous articles and chapters on the music of sixteenth-century Italy and twentieth-century America. She is currently completing a monograph on the female musicians at the court and in the convents of sixteenth-century Ferrara; she is co-director of the early music ensemble Musica Secreta and the female-voice choir Celestial Sirens.