Series editor Steven Saunders passes the baton to Alexander Fisher.
We give heartfelt thanks to Steven Saunders for eleven years of service as series editor for Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era. Saunders, James M. Gillespie Professor of Music at Colby College, has overseen the series of critical music editions since 2010, providing guidance and collaboration to many volume editors and to the A-R staff editors.
“There were many joys in serving as series editor. First among them was the privilege of working with and getting to know A-R’s house editors, first-rate musicologists who are all thoroughly committed to helping our authors produce exemplary scholarly editions. Another treat was getting early previews of little-known corners of the baroque repertoire—not to mention advance glimpses of some of the superb scholarship that supported these editions. I hope that Alex will enjoy these perks as much as I have!” says Saunders.
Nearly sixty volumes have been published in the series during his tenure, with many more planned for publication in the coming years. A-R Editions will be ever indebted to Steve, and we wish him the best.
Taking the baton is Alexander Fisher, Professor of Early Music & Musicology at the University of British Columbia. His interests include German music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, ritual contexts for sacred music in the early modern era, sound studies, and aspects of music, soundscape, and religious identity in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. His work, which ranges from sixteenth-century studies to the present day, has been published in the Journal of Musicology, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Early Music History, and elsewhere, and he has presented research at conferences of the American Musicological Society, Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, American Historical Association, Renaissance Society of America, and other organizations. His books include Music and Religious Identity in Counter-Reformation Augsburg, 1580-1630, which appeared from Ashgate Press in 2004, and Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria, 1550-1650, which appeared from Oxford University Press in 2014. He has also published several editions, including Gregor Aichinger: Lacrumae Divae Virginis et Joannis in Christum a cruce depositum (B211), Anton Holzner: Viretum pierium (B156), and Rudolph di Lasso: Virginalia Eucharistica (B114). A specialist in early wind instruments, he has performed in various early music ensembles and coordinates the UBC Early Music Ensemble.
Fisher says, “I am honored to join the A-R Editions team as series editor for Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era. Over the last decade the series has been in excellent hands under the leadership of Steven Saunders, and I can only hope to follow his example. I am very much looking forward to welcoming new proposals for the series and working with the entire A-R Editions community.”
Join us as we whole-heartedly welcome Alexander Fisher as the new series editor for Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era.
