Jessie Ann Owens

Title

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music

Institution

University of California, Davis

Current Research

Renaissance music, especially Cipriano de Rore (mid-sixteenth-century madrigalist, briefly maestro di cappella at San Marco).
Also Giovanni Brevio, priest and poet, born in Venice, lived in Rome and Padua, in the Bembo circle.

Recent Publications

“Zarlino’s Cipriano,” in «Quello che sia modo» Contesti e influenze della teoria zarliniana dello spazio sonoro, ed. Marco Mangani, Musicalia: Annuario internazionale di studi musicologici 10 (2013 [published in 2021], 97-127

“Uncovering the Secrets of the 1542 I madrigali a cinque voci,” essay in CD Cipriano de Rore, I madrigali a cinque voci, Blue Heron, 2019

Forthcoming Publications

With Cristle Collins Judd, “Zarlino, De Rore and Composing in the Modes,” _Musico perfetto Gioseffo Zarlino 1517-1590 _ (Venice: Fondazione Levi, in press [completed 2018])