Caldwell was born in Bebington Cheshire and studied the organ at the Matthay School of Music in Liverpool becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in 1957 He studied at Keble College Oxford obtaining his B. Phil in 1965 For his doctorate he transcribed and edited a manuscript of English liturgical organ music from between 1548 and 1650 He was an assistant lecturer at Bristol University from 1963 to 1966 before returning to Oxford University as a lecturer in 1966 holding this position until 1996 when he was appointed a Reader He was a Fellow of Keble College from 1967 to 1992 1 He became a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College Oxford in 1999 and given the title of Professor by the University Distinctions Committee 2 He became an Emeritus Fellow on his retirement in 2005 3 His main areas of interest are medieval and Renaissance music music theory and keyboard music In one of his late articles dedicated to early witnesses of Western modal music and music theory he suggested to consider modality not to be bound up with 8 standard church tones but to treat it as a unifying concept for Western chant 4 His compositions include the opera oratorio Good Friday first performed in Oxford in February 1998 1 and Ecce sacerdos magnus for the Choirs of All Saints Church Northampton. Since its publication in 1985 Editing Early Music has been the guide to editorial procedures suitable for music written from the Middle Ages to about 1830 For this revised edition Caldwell has made a number of corrections brought the bibliography up to date and added a Postscript on stemmatics and textual criticism Editing Early Music Early Music Series
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John Caldwell
| Editing Early Music (Early Music Series) By John Caldwell |
| 0198165447 |
| 9780198165446 |
| English |
| 150 |
| Paperback |
John Anthony Caldwell born 6 July 1938 is an English musicologist and composer.A in 1960 B.Mus in 1961 and D