Ronald Woodley is Research Professor of
Music at Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University,
having previously held posts at the Royal Northern College of
Music, the universities of Lancaster, Newcastle, Liverpool,
and at Christ Church, Oxford. His research specialises in late
medieval music theory, as well as performance and analytical
studies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including
work on Prokofiev, Ravel and Steve Reich. He is also active
professionally as a clarinettist and pianist, with particular
commitments to chamber music, two-piano repertory (most
recently with Roy Howat), and French, German and English song
repertories, often with the tenor James Geer.
Jeffrey J. Dean is a Senior Researcher
at Birmingham Conservatoire in England, employed on the UK
Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project ‘The
Complete Theoretical Works of Johannes Tinctoris: A New
Digital Edition’. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Scholar
at the University of Manchester and Executive Officer of the
Royal Musical Association. He has worked since 1989 chiefly as
a free-lance editor, book designer, and typesetter of academic
books in the humanities; during the 1990s he was a Senior
In-House Editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and
Musicians. His research is concentrated on the early
choirbooks of the papal chapel, fifteenth- and
early-sixteenth-century sacred music, fifteenth-century oral
traditions of music and music teaching, and music theory in
the late middle ages.
David trained as a historical
musicologist at Kings College, London. He has since
specialised in developing computer tools for musicologists or
musicians. He is currently based at the Birmingham
Conservatoire, where he is responsible for the computer-related
aspects of this project, and at the Department of Computing at
Goldsmiths, University of London, where he works on the
AHRC-funded Transforming
Musicology, an Electronic Corpus of Lute Music,
(ECOLM). He also teaches
and is currently completing a doctorate in Computer
Science.
