People
Dr TIM SHEPHARD
I studied music at Manchester as an undergraduate, then turned briefly to art history, completing the PGDip at the Courtauld Institute, and before doing my PhD at the University of Nottingham with the help of an AHRC award. Somewhere along the way I took a couple of years away from academia, teaching the cello as a peri for Brighton council, playing professionally in London, and working as an art handler for Dulwich Picture Gallery. For the two years since I completed my PhD I have been an Associate Lecturer at Nottingham. At present I also hold the honorary position of Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Music, Gender and Identity, University of Huddersfield, and I am Editorial Manager for the journal twentieth-century music.
I am a historical musicologist specialising in the Renaissance (by which I mean the 15th and 16th centuries) - particularly, but not exclusively, the Italian courts 1430-1530. Thematically, I am interested in music patronage, music and identity (including gendered, courtly and princely identities), and music in/and visual culture. I am what in the States is sometimes called a 'contextualist', meaning that most of my work deals with the ways in which music sits within and relates to broader Italian Renaissance culture.
Publications:
‘Constructing Identities in a Music Manuscript: The Medici Codex as a Gift', Renaissance Quarterly 63 (2010), 84-127.
‘Voice, Decorum and Seduction in Florigerio's Music Lesson', Early Music 38 (2010), 361-7.
‘Music and the Poetics of Presence in Giorgione's Fête champêtre', Early Music Performer 27 (2010), 4-9.
Giuseppe Gerbino, Music and the Myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge, 2009): Music and Letters 91 (2010), 420-2.
Nina Treadwell, Music and Wonder at the Medici Court: The 1589 Interludes for La pellegrina (Bloomington, 2008): Music and Letters 92 (2011), 285-7.
‘New Dufay Recordings': Early Music 39 (2011), 112-4.
‘Constructing Isabella d'Este's Musical Decorum in the Visual Sphere', Renaissance Studies 25 (2011), 684-706.'Finding Fame: Fashioning Adrian Willaert c.1518', Journal of the Alamire Foundation (2012), forthcoming.
'A Mirror for Princes: The Ferrarese Mirror Frame in the V&A and the Instruction of Heirs', Journal of Design History (2012), forthcoming.
'Echoing Helicon: Music, Art and Identity in the Este Studioli' (under contract, Oxford University Press)
ed. with Anne Leonard, The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture (under contract, Routledge)
Contact:
Tim Shephard
Worcester College
Oxford
OX1 2HB