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Professor David SMITH The University of Aberdeen School of Education Chair in Music work +44 (0)1224 274737 pref d.j.smith@abdn.ac.uk http://www.davidjsmith.org.uk pref Department of Music Room 004 MacRobert Building King's College Aberdeen AB24 5UA Scotland UK t: +44 (0) 1224 274737 direct e: d.j.smith@abdn.ac.uk

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Biography

Professor David Smith MA, DPhil, LTCL combines the role of Head of Music with that of Master of Chapel and Ceremonial Music.

He was organ scholar at St Peter's College, Oxford before moving to Wadham College as the first John Brookman Graduate Organ Scholar, where he completed a doctoral thesis on the instrumental music of Peter Philips (1560/61-1628). After a year as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Surrey, he became Assistant Director of Music at the University of Aberdeen, where his duties included research, direction of student ensembles, undergraduate teaching, and the development of distance learning music courses. As Head of Music he is responsible for music research, teaching and performance; he also directs King's College Chapel Choir and acts as University Organist.

David is co-founder and General Editor of the Ashgate Historical Keyboard Series.  He in demand as an authority on early keyboard music from England and the Low Countries. Other research interests include consort and lute music, and he is currently working on an edition of consort music by Philips and Dering for Musica Britannica. He has also published on Scottish music manuscripts.

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Research Interests

Early keyboard music from England, the Low Countries and Italy

Elizabethan and Jacobean consort and lute music

Peter Philips (1560/61-1628)

Scottish music manuscripts

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Current Research

David is working on an edition of consort music by Peter Philips and Richard Dering for Musica Britannica. A chapter on editing early keyboard music is due to be published in Early Music Editing: Principles, Historiography, Future Directions early in 2012. Two further book chapters explore aspects of musical, relgious and social networks in the Early Modern period.

Future plans include an article on the origins of Peter Philips's 1580 Pavan (related to the edition of his consort music for Musica Britannica), an edited book on early English keyboard music and something on the earliest printed keyboard music in England to mark the 400th anniversary of Parthenia's publication in 2013.

Current PhD students:

Almut Boehme (Scottish music manuscripts in National Library of Scotland)

Shelagh Noden (revival of Roman Catholic Church music in Scotland)

Ralph Stelzenuller (early keyboard continuo in England)

Jane Leatherbarrow (Bach organ music)

Previous Doctoral Students

Vanballenberghe, Nathalie, 'Aspects of genre in the secular vocal music of Cornelis Verdonck (1563/4-1625)' (PhD thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2007)

 

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Collaborations

 National Library of Scotland Scottish Song Index Project (in collaboration with Head of Music, National Library of Scotland)

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Teaching Responsibilities

David teaches across a broad range of areas within Music, including not only his one specialist subjects and periods, but also general music history and harmony. As Head of Music, he has oversight of all areas of academic programmes.

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External Responsibilities

Elvis Advisory Board (Electronic Locator of Vertical Interval Successions (ELVIS): The First Large Data-Driven Research Project on Musical Style)

Member of the Elphinstone Institute Advisory Board (2011-)

The Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM)

• Warden, Private Teachers Section, 2011-2014

• Executive Committee (2010-)

• ISM Governance Working Party (2010-)

• Regional Councillor for East Scotland, Director and Trustee of Members Fund (2004-2007; 2008-2010)

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Admin Responsibilities

Head of Music

Master of Chapel and Ceremonial Music

MA Music Studies Programme Coordinator

Member of School of Education Executive

Member of School of Education Research Committee

UoA lead in Music for REF

Conference organisation:

Two related international conferences organized in collaboration with the Schulich School of Music, McGill University (2011):

• Networks of Keyboard Music c.1600, McGill University, 11-13 February.
• Musical, Cultural and Religious Networks in Early Modern Europe: In Celebration of Peter Philips's 450th Anniversary, University of Abertdeen, 1-4 March.

Royal Musical Association Annual Conference (2008)

Bridging the Gap? - one-day conference on music in Scottish schools

Symposium of Early English Keyboards (2005)

Thistle, Rose and Fleur-de-Lys: Musical connections between Scotland, England and France over three centuries (2003)

Colloquium on Scottish Music Manuscripts (2002)

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Smith, DJ. (2009). 'Early Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Culture at the Court of the Archdukes in Brussels: The Manuscript Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Mus. MS 40316'. Revue Belge de Musicologie, vol 63, pp. 67-98.
• Smith, DJ. (1999). 'Byrd Reconstructed: in Search of Consort Models for Keyboard Dances by Byrd'. Annual Byrd Newsletter, vol 5, pp. 6-8.
• Smith, DJ. (1997). 'Further Light on Peter Philips'. Annual Byrd Newsletter, vol 3, pp. 8-9.
• Smith, DJ. (1995). 'Some Stylistic Correspondences between the Keyboard Music of Byrd and Philips: An Introductory Note'. Annual Byrd Newsletter, vol 1, pp. 7-8.
• Johnston, DW., Gold, A., Kentish, J., Smith, D., Vallance, P., Shah, D., Leach, G., Robinson, B. & Johnston, D. (1993). 'Effect of stress management on blood pressure in mild primary hypertension'. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), vol 306, no. 6883, pp. 963-6.
• JOHNSTON, DW., GOLD., A., KENTISH., J., SMITH., D., VALLANCE., P., SHAH, D., LEACH, G., ROBINSON, B. & Johnston, D. (1993). 'EFFECT OF STRESS MANAGEMENT ON BLOOD-PRESSURE IN MILD PRIMARY HYPERTENSION'. British Medical Journal, vol 306, no. 6883, pp. 963-966.

Letters

• Smith, DJ. (2002). 'Merulo, Cornet and Scheidemann'. Early Music, vol 30, no. 2, pp. 297-299.

Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

• Smith, DJ. (2007). 'Resurrecting Scheidemann'. Early Music, vol 35, no. 4, pp. 633-634.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1093/em/cam108

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Smith, DJ. (2006). 'Keyboard Music in Scotland: Genre, Genre and Context'. J Porter (ed.), in: Defining Strains: the Musical Life of Scots in the Seventeenth Century. Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland, vol. 2, Peter Lang Pub., Bern, Switzerland, pp. 97-125.
• Smith, DJ. (2002). 'The Nature of Musical Influence: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and English Composers Active in the Southern Netherlands'. P Dirksen (ed.), in: Sweelinck Studies: Papers presented at a symposium held from Aug. 27-Sept. 1, 1999. STIMU, Foundation for Historical Performance Practice, Utrecht, Netherlands, pp. 65-84.
• Smith, DJ. (2002). 'English Composers at the Archducal Court at Brussels and the Influence of their Music in the Spanish Netherlands'. J Ferrard (ed.), in: XVIIe, XIXe, XXIe siècles: Bruxelles, carrefour européen de l’orgue. Sic ASBL, Brussels, Belgium, pp. 21-30.

Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• Smith, DJ. (2001). 'Peacham, Henry'. SG Grove, S Sadie & J Tyrell (eds), in: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edn, vol. 19, Grove, New York.

Conference Proceedings

• Smith, DJ. (1999). 'Italian Influence on the Music of Peter Philips (c. 1561-1628): Musical Taste and Patronage in the Spanish Netherlands at the end of the Sixteenth Century'. E Schreurs & B Bouckaert (eds), in: Giaches de Wert (1535-1596) and his Time: Migration of Musicians to and from the Low Countries (c.1400-1600). Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation, vol. 3, Alamire Foundation, Leuven, Belgium, pp. 191-209.

Contributions to Conferences

Other Contributions

• Smith, DJ. (2004). 'Seven Solutions for Seven Problems: the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book'.
• Smith, DJ. (2003). 'The First Layer of the Thomson Manuscript: Scribe, Instrument, Repertory'.
• Smith, DJ. (2002). 'The Role of the Scribe in the Transmission of Music by Peter Philips and the Interpretation of Written Musical Sources of Early Keyboard Music'.

Books and Reports

Books

• Philips, P. & Smith, DJ. (ed.) (1999). 'Peter Philips: Complete Keyboard Music'. Musica Britannica (Royal Musical Association), vol. 75, vol. 75, Stainer & Bell, London, United Kingdom.
• Smith, DJ. & Robinson, JH. (eds) (1998). 'Lute Intabulations of Works by Peter Philips'. Lute Society, Guildford, United Kingdom.

Contributions to Specialist Publications

Articles

• Smith, DJ. (2008). 'The English Pavan and Galliard for Viols and the Art of Keyboard Intabulation'. p. 14-19, The Viol.
• Smith, DJ. (2003). ''This Point which our Organists Use’: The English Pavan and the Origins of the Chromatic Fantasia'. p. 71-86, The Organ Yearbook, Laaber-Verlag.
• Smith, DJ. (2002). 'Francis Tregian the Younger as Music Copyist: a “Legend”?'. p. 7-16, The Musical Times, Musical Times Publications.

Other Contributions

• Smith, DJ. (2005). 'Philips, Peter'.
• Smith, DJ. (2003). 'At Source'.
• Smith, DJ. (2003). 'Print Culture'.
• Smith, DJ. (2002). 'Visual Culture and Music in the Eighteenth Century'.
• Smith, DJ. (2001). 'The Byrd Edition 5'.
• Smith, DJ. (2001). 'CD Liner Notes for Carole Cerasi (harpsichord), Thomas Tomkins: Barafostus Dreame'.

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