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E-mail: Stephen Rose

Stephen Rose joined the Royal Holloway Music Department in 2005. He has scholarly interests in German music 1500–1750, in the social and material history of music, and in the relationship between musical creativity, composition and performance. He is currently Director of Undergraduate Studies and Chair of Undergraduate Exams in the Music Department, and he supervises three PhD students (two of them AHRC-funded). Before coming to Royal Holloway he was a Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and taught at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Stephen’s research focuses on German music 1500–1750 in its social, material and performing contexts. A series of seven refereed articles published in 2004–08 examined the circulation, use and symbolic meanings of printed music. Subsequent research, funded by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, examines the musician-novels of the German Baroque as evidence of the self-identity of musicians. Initial results of this project have been published in Understanding Bachand the interdisciplinary volume The Worlds of Johann Sebastian Bach (New York, 2009), and will appear in full in a forthcoming monograph. Currently his research examines the relationships between musical authorship, performance and creativity in 17th- and 18th-century Germany. In all his research he seeks to reconstruct a rich aural culture from its material residues, often using apparent ephemera such as pamphlets, handbills and anecdotes.

He also researches English music of the seventeenth century, with a chapter on performance practice forthcoming in the Ashgate Research Companion: Henry Purcell, and further work planned on compositional styles in the generation between Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel.
Since 2004 he has been Reviews Editor (Books & Music) of the Oxford University Press journal Early Music; he serves on the Advisory Council of Bach Network UK; and he is active as an organist and keyboard continuo player.

At Royal Holloway he convenes and teaches on the core first-year undergraduate History of Music course; he leads undergraduate option courses on J. S. Bach: Context and Reception, Music and Society in Purcell’s London, and The Art and Craft of 18th-Century Composition; and he convenes and teaches on the MMus course Techniques of Historical Musicology. He has supervised many MMus dissertations on aspects of early modern music and culture. Current PhD students include Jenifer Raub (Liturgical Printing in Tudor London), Katherine Butler (Music and Politics at the court of Elizabeth I – AHRC funded) and Chris Mayled (Music and Aesthetics in Handel’s London – AHRC funded).