Jessie Ann Owens
Title
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music
Institution
University of California, Davis
Current Research
Renaissance music, especially Cipriano de Rore (mid-sixteenth-century madrigalist, briefly maestro di cappella at San Marco).
Also Giovanni Brevio, priest and poet, born in Venice, lived in Rome and Padua, in the Bembo circle.
Also Giovanni Brevio, priest and poet, born in Venice, lived in Rome and Padua, in the Bembo circle.
Recent Publications
“Zarlino’s Cipriano,” in «Quello che sia modo» Contesti e influenze della teoria zarliniana dello spazio sonoro, ed. Marco Mangani, Musicalia: Annuario internazionale di studi musicologici 10 (2013 [published in 2021], 97-127
“Uncovering the Secrets of the 1542 I madrigali a cinque voci,” essay in CD Cipriano de Rore, I madrigali a cinque voci, Blue Heron, 2019
“Uncovering the Secrets of the 1542 I madrigali a cinque voci,” essay in CD Cipriano de Rore, I madrigali a cinque voci, Blue Heron, 2019
Forthcoming Publications
With Cristle Collins Judd, “Zarlino, De Rore and Composing in the Modes,” _Musico perfetto Gioseffo Zarlino 1517-1590 _ (Venice: Fondazione Levi, in press [completed 2018])