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Kerry R. McCarthy

Curriculum Vitae

Duke University
Music Department
Box 90665
Durham, NC 27708-0665 		660-3319 (office)
(email)
Education:
  • PhD Stanford University, 2003
  • BA Reed College, 1997
Areas of Research
  • Music of early modern England (with a special focus on the works of William Byrd)
    Renaissance contrafacture and other scribal misbehavior
    Liturgical reform and counter-reform
    German Baroque sacred music
Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Assistant Professor, Musicology, Music Department, 2003 - present
Stanford University
Visiting Lecturer, Musicology, Music Department, 2002
Professional Work

  Books

  1. K. McCarthy. William Byrd.  Oxford University Press, under contract (Summer 2011) .
  2. K. McCarthy. Liturgy and Contemplation in Byrd's Gradualia.  New York: Routledge, 2007 .

  Articles
  1. K.R. McCarthy (with John Harley). "From the library of William Byrd." Musical Times 150.4 (Winter, 2009).
  2. K. McCarthy. "Byrd's patrons at prayer." Music and Letters 89.1 (February 2008).
  3. K. McCarthy. ""Brought to speake English with the rest": Byrd's motet contrafacta." Musical Times 148.3 (September, 2007).
  4. K. McCarthy. "Tallis, Isidore of Seville, and Suscipe quaeso." Early Music 35.3 (August 2007): 447-50.
  5. K. McCarthy. "Tallis, Thomas." MGG (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart) Personenteil vol. 16 (2007): §457–70.
  6. K. McCarthy. "A Motet for Lovers of Music." Sacred Music 133.1 (2006): 21-24.
  7. K. McCarthy. "Fit to Print: Controversy and Editorial Control in the Publications of William Byrd." Ex Libris (Associates of the Stanford University Libraries) 13 (Summer 2005): 6-10.
  8. K. McCarthy. "Parsley, Osbert." MGG (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart) Personenteil vol. 13 (2005): §143-44.
  9. K. McCarthy. "Pygott, Richard." MGG (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart) Personenteil vol. 13 (2005): §1087-88.
  10. K. McCarthy. "Byrd, Augustine, and Tribue Domine." Early Music 32.4 (November 2004).
  11. K. McCarthy. "William Mundy’s Vox patris caelestis and the Assumption of the Virgin." Music and Letters 85.3 (August 2004): 353-367.
  12. K. McCarthy. "'Notes as a garland’: chronology and narrative of Byrd’s Gradualia." Early Music History 24 (2004): 49-84.
  13. K. McCarthy. "Music for all seasons: the Byrd Gradualia revisited." Sacred Music 129.1 (Spring 2002).

  Papers
  1. K.R. McCarthy. Byrd and the Mass-Proper Tradition. January 2009 . ("Cantus ecclesiastum ut ornaret...": Polyphony for the Proper of the Mass, Alamire Foundation, Leuven, Belgium)
  2. K.R. McCarthy. Contrafacture and ideology in the English Renaissance. July 2008 . (Renaissance Society, Trinity College, Dublin; Med-Ren Music Conference, University of Bangor, Wales.)
  3. K.R. McCarthy. Philips' 1628 "Paradisus" and the Triumph of the Eucharist. 2008 . (Annual Meeting of the Royal Musical Association, Aberdeen, Scotland)
  4. K. McCarthy. Byrd and the politics of exile. July 2007 . (King's College London)
  5. K.McCarthy. Genre outlaws: Renaissance musical contrafacta and their makers. October 2007 . (Renaissance Seminar, Wesleyan University)
  6. K. McCarthy. The personal and the political in Byrd. March 2006 . (All Souls' College, Oxford)
  7. K. McCarthy. "Brought to speake English with the rest": Byrd's motet contrafacta. July 2006 . (Annual Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Music, Cambridge)
  8. K. McCarthy. Byrd's patrons at prayer. October 2006 . (Institute of Advanced Musical Studies, King's College, London; Trinity College, Dublin)
  9. K. McCarthy. "Rose garlands and gunpowder: Byrd's musical world in 1605". August 2005 . (invited lecture, Reed College)
  10. K. McCarthy. "Collaborative voice in the Tallis-Byrd Cantiones". 2005 . (Conference paper; read at Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Washington, DC, October 2005; Annual Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, Tours, France, July 2005)
  11. K. McCarthy. Fit to Print: controversy and editorial control in Byrd’s Latin publications. May 2004 . (Invited Lecture (Stanford University))
  12. K. McCarthy. William Mundy’s Vox patris caelestis and the Assumption of the Virgin. December 2003 . (Invited Lecture, Joint Symposium, Departments of Music and History, Reed College)
  13. K. McCarthy. In atriis tuis Jerusalem: English recusant constructions of sacred time and space. November 2003 . (Invited Lecture, Symposium on Music in Sacred Space, Wesleyan University)
  14. K. McCarthy. ‘Notes as a garland’: chronology and narrative of Byrd’s Gradualia. 2003 . (Presented at National Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Houston, TX, November 2003 and 29th Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Jena, Germany, August 2003)

  Reviews
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. K. McCarthy, Review of Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Ignace Bossuyt). Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute 37:1 (2006): 78-81.
  4. 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.
  5. K. McCarthy, Review of Music in Medieval Manuscripts (Nicolas Bell). Medieval Review  (January 2003).
  6. K. McCarthy, Review of The Advent Project (James McKinnon). Medieval Review  (June 2001).
  7. K. McCarthy, “Tallis’ Suscipe quaeso”. Early Music  (May 2000). (Correspondence to journal)

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

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professorship, 2006-2007.
Conferences Organized

  • Departmental Colloquium in Musicology, February 2005
  • Director and organizer, International William Byrd Conference, Duke University, 17–19 November 2005
Invited Lectures, Talks, and Conferences

  Invited Lectures:

  • "Byrd's patrons at prayer," King's College London; Trinity College Dublin, 2006.
  • ""Gunpowder and rose garlands: Byrd's musical world in 1605"," Reed College, Portland, OR, August 2005.
  • ""The personal and the political in Byrd"," All Souls College, Oxford, March 2006.
  • "William Mundy's Vox patris caelestis and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary," Reed College, December, 2003.
  • ""In atriis tuis Jerusalem": English recusant constructions of sacred time and space," Wesleyan University, 22 November 2003. Symposium on Music in Sacred Space
  Conferences:
  • ""Collaborative voice in the 1575 Tallis-Byrd Cantiones"," National Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Washington, DC, October 2005; 31st Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Tours, France, July 2005.
  • ""Harmony's Entrancing Power: Music in Early Modern England" (Faculty Weekend Seminar)," Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, September 2005.
  • ""Sacred songs across generations"," Meeting of AMS Southeast Chapter, Duke University, April 2005.
  • "Director and organizer, International William Byrd Conference," Duke University Department of Music, November 17-19, 2005. [html]
  • ""Notes as a garland": the chronology and narrative of Byrd's Gradualia," National Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Houston, TX, November 2003.
Professional Service

  Departmental Committees/Service
  • Administered German, French, and Latin exams to PhD students, 2005 - present
  • Ph.D. dissertation committees, Principal dissertation advisor for Quyen Tran, Kasey Mattia, and Roman Testroet, 2004 - present
  • Graduate Admissions Committee, 2004, 2005, and 2007

  Service to the Profession

  • Departmental Colloquium in Musicology, February 2005
  • Director and organizer, International William Byrd Conference, Duke University, 17–19 November 2005

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