Perkins, Leeman (Emeritus)

Full Name: 
Leeman Perkins
Position/Title: 
Professor Emeritus
Office Address: 
TBA

Leeman Perkins came to Columbia in 1975 as a visitor and was appointed to the faculty in 1976, having previously taught at Yale U. and the U. of Texas at Austin. He served the Department as Chairman 1985-90.

He has received grants from the NEH, ACLS, and the Paul Mellon Foundation. His research interests lie primarily in the music of the 15th and 16th centuries; genres and styles of that period; questions of mensuration, hexachordal reference, modality, and tonality, as they relate to editorial practice and performance. He is general editor of the series Masters and Monuments of the Renaissance (Broude Trust). His writings have won awards that include the Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society, 1980, for The Mellon Chansonnier as "the work of musicological scholarship deemed. . .the most distinguished of those published in the preceding year"; and La Medaille de la Ville de Tours, 1997.      
             

Degrees: 
BFA (U. of Utah 1954)
Degrees: 
PhD (Yale 1965)
Selected Publications: 

Music in the Age of the Renaissance. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998)

"Text and Music in the Chansons of Busnoys: the Editorial Dilemma," L'Edizione critica tra testo musicale e testo letterario (Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana Editrice, 1995).

"At the Intersection of Social History and Musical Style: the Rondeaux and Virelais of the Turin MS J II 9," in A Cypriot-French Repertory of the MS Torino J.II.9, Musicological Studies and Documents, 45 (Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, 1995).

"Modal Strategies in Okeghem's Missa Cuiusvis Toni," in Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1993).

"Ockeghem's Prenez sur moi: Reflections on Canons, Catholica, and Solmization," Musica Disciplina 44 (1990).
The Mellon Chansonnier, ed. with intro. and facs. [with Howard Garey], 2 vols (New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1979).

Johannes Lheritier Opera Omnia, Corpus mensurabilis musicae, 48 (Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, 1969).