Josh Drake

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Dr. Joshua F. Drake is a musicologist and hymnist at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. His research, writing and presentations primarily involve understanding the structure of 15th century Latin Christian motets. Drake is notable for his research and papers that challenge commonly held views regarding the relationship between words and music in motets of the late 15th century.[1]

Contents 1 Education 2 Selected works 2.1 Articles 2.2 Selected conferences 2.3 Selected hymns and music 2.3.1 Hymns 2.3.2 Music 3 Sources and external links

[edit] Education

• B.M. Union University in Sacred Music. • M. Mus. University of Glasgow. • Ph.D., University of Glasgow

[edit] Selected works

[edit] Articles

• ‘The Part-books of a Florentine Ex-Patriate: new light on Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Ms. Magl. XIX 164-7’, Early Music (OUP), Vol. 33, no. 4 (Oct. 2005), pp. 639-646.
• ‘Aesthetics, Context, and the Music of Obrecht’, panel discussion (with panelists Jenny Bloxam (US), Jacobijn Kiel (NL), Sean Gallagher (US)) at the Annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2004. Professor Drake was also on the programme committee for this conference and chaired a session.
• ‘Randomness and Patterns: repeated texts in Petrucci’s Motet Prints’, paper given at the Annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Jena, Germany, July 2003.
• ‘The Part-books of a Florentine Ex-Patriate: new light on Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Ms. Magl. XIX 164-7’, paper given at the Royal Musical Association, 36th Annual Music Research Students’ Conference, January 2003.
• Worship Music In Toto, Union Academic Forum, Union University (December 14, 2000).

[edit] Selected conferences

• Chair of MEMORY & RHETORIC, Thursday 15th July, Annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference Glasgow, July 2004

[edit] Selected hymns and music

[edit] Hymns

• As in the Days of Haggai When • Behold, What Light Rolls Back the Sky? • Eternal God, Mover Unmoved • Holy Word of God, The • O Christian Home • Spirit Binds Us to Our Lord, The

[edit] Music

• Flandrensis • Forest Glen • Français • Honoro Patris • Lex Noster • Schultz

[edit] Sources and external links

• Cyberhymnal [2]
• Grove City College Faculty [3]
• Oxford Journals, Early Music, EMM Nov 2005 # 33.4, 639 The Part-books of a Florentine Expatriate [4]
• Project Muse, Scholarly Journals [5]
• Union University, Worship Music In Toto [6]
• University of Glasgow, Department of Music [7]
• University of Glasgow, Student Research [8]
• University of London, Royal Holloway, The Royal Musical Association Med-Ren Music Conference Glasgow Thursday 15 -- Sunday 18 July 2004, Memory and Rhetoric, Joshua Drake Chair [9] [10] [11]