Faculty Biography

Herbert Kellman

Professor Emeritus of Musicology

Diploma (composition), New York College of Music; B.A. (magna cum laude), The City University of New York; M.F.A. (musicology), Princeton University

Kellman's scholarly interests have focused on the music and culture of the Renaissance, and the composers Josquin des Prez, Heinrich Schütz, and Igor Stravinsky. He is editor of the five-volume Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music, 1400-1550 (1978-88), The Treasury of Petrus Alamire: Music and Art in Flemish Court Manuscripts, 1500-1535 (1999), and the forthcoming Sources of the Music of Josquin des Prez, and author of articles in various journals and encyclopedias.  Kellman has received fellowships and project grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and has been an Associate in the UIUC Center for Advanced Study. He is director of the School's Renaissance Archives and a member of the international editorial board of the New Josquin Edition.