Daniel Zager (ed.) - Music and theology : essays in honor of Robin A. Leaver

Gregory Butler is senior professor of music at the School of Music, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is author of Bachs Clavier-bung III: The Making of a Print (1990) and numerous articles on the first editions of Bachs works. He has also written extensively on Bachs concertos and is presently researching the composers Leipzig organ works. He was elected president of the American Bach Society in 2004.

Albert Clement is professor of musicology at Utrecht University and at its international Honors College in Middelburg, the Netherlands: the Roosevelt Academy. He has devoted a number of publications to Bach, among them several books, including The Blood of Christ and the Doctrine of Reconciliation in the Works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Proceedings of the International Colloquium in Amsterdam 1993 (1995) and Der dritte Teil der Clavierbung von Johann Sebastian Bach: Musik - Text - Theologie (1999).

Stephen A. Crist is chair of the Music Department at Emory University. He served as contributing editor of Bach in America, Bach Perspectives, 5 (2003) and contributing coeditor of Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations (2004).

William T. Flynn is lecturer at the University of Leeds, Institute for Medieval Studies. He is the author of Medieval Music as Medieval Exegesis, Studies in Liturgical Musicology, 9 (1999), which investigates the cross-fertilization of the elementary study of grammar, rhetoric, music, and liturgy, and its effects on the production and interpretation of biblical commentary in the eleventh-century church. He participates in the study group Sapientia-Eloquentia based at the University of Stockholm, which is investigating developments in liturgical poetry from the eleventh to the twelfth centuries.

Don O. Franklin, professor of music at the University of Pittsburgh and past president of the American Bach Society, has published widely on the music of J. S. Bach. Recent essays appear in Passion, Affekt und Leidenschaft in der frhen Neuzeit, Wolfenbtteler Arbeiten zur Barockforschung, 43 (2005); Bach Studies from Dublin, Irish Musical Studies, 8 (2004); and Bachs Musik fr Tasteninstrumente, Dortmunder Bach-Forschungen, 6 (2003). As Director of the Bach and Baroque Ensemble, he recently presented the modern premiere of C. P. E. Bachs 1789 Matthew Passion.

Anne Leahy lectures in academic studies at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama (Dublin). She holds the Ph.D. from Utrecht University and is also a professional organist, having been director of music at St. Michaels Church, Dn Laoghaire, Dublin, from 1983 to 2006. She is a Fulbright scholar and was the first visiting Gerhard Herz Professor of Bach Studies at the University of Louisville in 2003.

Michael Marissen is Daniel Underhill Professor of Music at Swarthmore College. His publications include The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bachs Brandenburg Concertos (1995) and Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bachs St. John Passion (1998). Current projects include a study on Handels Messiah and Christian Triumphalism and a book of annotated translations of the librettos from Bachs oratorios.

Daniel R. Melamed is associate professor at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University. He is the author of J. S. Bach and the German Motet, coauthor (with Michael Marissen) of An Introduction to Bach Studies, editor of Bach Studies 2, and serves as associate editor of the Journal of Musicology. His book for general readers, Hearing Bachs Passions, was published by Oxford University Press in 2005.

Steve Pilkington is associate professor of sacred music; chair of conducting, organ, and sacred music faculties; and director of chapel at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. He holds degrees from St. Olaf College and the University of Illinois and is active as an organist and choral conductor.

D. E. Saliers is Wm. R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship at Emory University, where he is also organist/choirmaster at Cannon Chapel and director of the M.S.M. program. Educated at Yale Divinity School and Cambridge University, he received the Ph.D. degree from Yale University, where he taught before joining the faculty at Emory in 1974. Among his publications are Worship as Theology (1994), Worship Come to Its Senses (1996), The Soul in Paraphrase: Prayer and the Religious Affections (1980), and, most recently, A Song to Sing, A Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice (2005), coauthored with his daughter Emily Saliers.

Kerala J. Snyder is professor emerita of musicology at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. Her publications include the books Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lbeck (1987) and (as editor) The Organ as a Mirror of Its Time: North European Reflections, 16102000 (2002). She was founding editor-in-chief and is now consulting editor of the online Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music.

Yo Tomita is reader in the School of Music at Queens University, Belfast. He recently edited Joseph Groococks Fugal Composition: A Guide to the Study of Bachs 48 (2003), and, with Anne Leahy, Bach Studies from Dublin, Irish Musical Studies, 8 (2004).

Sherry L. Vellucci (a.k.a., Sherry Vellucci-Leaver) holds a DLS in library and infomation science from Columbia University, where she also taught. She was director of the Division of Library and Information Science at St. Johns University until 2004, when she joined the faculty of Rutgers University, School of Communication, Information, and Library Science. Her research and publications are in the area of information organization, with a specific focus on music metadata. Prior to her teaching career, she was director of Talbott Library of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey.

Daniel Zager is head of the Sibley Music Library, associate professor of musicology, and affiliate faculty member in the organ department at the Eastman School of Music. He holds the Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Minnesota and has contributed chapters to Orlando di Lasso Studies (1999) and Orlandus Lassus and His Time (1995).