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Kerry R. McCarthy

Title: Assistant Professor of Music
Office Location: 068 Biddle Music
Office Phone: 660-3319
Email Address: kmccarth@duke.edu
Office Hours:

Thursday 2-4 pm

Education

  • PhD Stanford University, 2003
  • BA Reed College, 1997

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professorship, 2006-2007

Teaching (Fall 2008):

  (typical courses)

  • Music 48s.01, Focus seminar (topics) Synopsis
    Biddle 069, MW 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
  • Music 223.01, Music renaissance (top) Synopsis
    Biddle 069, W 04:25 PM-06:55 PM

Selected Professional Work:

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    Books

  • K. McCarthy. Liturgy and Contemplation in Byrd's Gradualia.  New York: Routledge, 2007 .
  • K. McCarthy. In Other Words: Renaissance Musical Contrafacta. Book in progress .
    Articles
  • K. McCarthy. ""Brought to speake English with the rest": Byrd's motet contrafacta." Musical Times 148.3 (September, 2007).
  • K. McCarthy. "Tallis, Isidore of Seville, and Suscipe quaeso." Early Music 35.3 (August 2007): 447-50.
  • K. McCarthy. "Tallis, Thomas." MGG (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart) Personenteil vol. 16 (2007): §457–70.
  • K. McCarthy. "A Motet for Lovers of Music." Sacred Music 133.1 (2006): 21-24.
  • K. McCarthy. "William Mundy’s Vox patris caelestis and the Assumption of the Virgin." Music and Letters 85.3 (August 2004): 353-367.
  • K. McCarthy. "Byrd, Augustine, and Tribue Domine." Early Music 32.4 (November 2004).
  • K. McCarthy. "'Notes as a garland’: chronology and narrative of Byrd’s Gradualia." Early Music History 24 (2004): 49-84.
    Reviews
  • K. McCarthy, Review of Philip Brett, William Byrd and his Contemporaries: Essays and a Monograph. NOTES: Journal of the Music Library Association 64:1 (2007): 63-66.
  • K. McCarthy, Review of Byrd Edition vol. 13, Songs of Sundrie Natures (ed. David Mateer). NOTES: Journal of the Music Library Association 62:4 (March, 2006): 1049-52.
  • K. McCarthy, Review of Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Ignace Bossuyt). Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute 37:1 (2006): 78-81.
  • K. McCarthy, Review of Bach Studies from Dublin (eds. A. Leahy and Y. Tomita). BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute 36:1 (2005): 97-100.

   Directing:

  • Directing, Duke University, April 2007
    Duke Collegium Musicum: J. S. Bach and the German Motet
  • Directing, Portland, OR, August 15, 2006
    Mass for the Assumption from Byrd's Gradualia (1605)
  • Directing, Duke University, April 2005
    Duke Collegium Musicum: Motets of Guillaume Dufay and Josquin des Prez
  • Directing, Duke University, November 2005
    Duke Collegium Musicum: Music of William Byrd
  • Directing, Duke University, January-December 2005
    Weekly vespers in Gregorian chant with singers from Duke Collegium Musicum
  • Directing, Duke University, April 2005
    Prism Concert: collaborative performance with Collegium Musicum and other Duke ensembles

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