M Jennifer Bloxam
Professor of Music
email: Mary.Jennifer.Bloxam@williams.edu

M. Jennifer Bloxam, Professor of Music. At Williams since 1986. Her Ph.D. in Musicology is from Yale University; her dissertation was entitled "A Survey of Late Medieval Service Books from the Low Countries: Implications for Sacred Polyphony, 1460-1520." She is a recipient of major grants from the NEH, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund, and the Fulbright Foundation.

Bloxam has published articles on late medieval plainsong and sacred polyphony in The Journal of the American Musicological Society, Early Music History, The Journal of Musicology, Plainsong in the Age of Polyphony (Cambridge, 1992), Hearing the Motet (Oxford, 1996), Continuities and Transformations in Musical Culture, 1450-1500 (Oxford, 1996), and The Josquin Companion (forthcoming). She is a contributor to the new edition of Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and the revised edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. She has also published on Haydn in The Haydn Yearbook.

She has presented numerous papers at national meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Annual Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music in England, and the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her scholarly interests include exegesis and narrative in medieval and Renaissance music and the arts, musical borrowing, compositional process, and the cultural context of music.