James Cook

Biography

James joined the Reid School of Music in 2017, having previously been a University Teacher in Music at the University of Sheffield, a Lecturer at Bangor University, a Supervision Tutor at the University of Cambridge, and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Nottingham. After completing his doctorate on Fifteenth-Century English Mass Cycles, supervised by Peter Wright and Philip Weller, James held a number of short-term post-doctoral fellowships followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Society for Renaissance Studies, during which he worked on the apparent decline in interest in English music in the later fifteenth century. He works mainly on early music and is especially interested in music of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries – the period that falls neatly between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Research Interest

Early Music •Fifteenth-Century English Music • Cultural Exchange • Music for Film and TV • Ludomusicology • Institutional Studies • Manuscript Studies • Notation and Edition