Rate My Professor Jeremy Smith

Jeremy Smith is Professor of Musicology in the College of Music at the University of Colorado Boulder. He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1997), an M.F.A. in Piano Performance from the University of California, Irvine (1990), and a B.A. in Music from Washington College (1985). Smith joined CU Boulder as Assistant Professor of Musicology in 2000, advancing to Associate Professor in 2004 and full Professor in 2016. He previously held positions as Assistant Professor of Musicology at the State University of New York at Fredonia (1998–2000), Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History at Millikin University (1997–1998), and Instructor of Music Appreciation at the University of North Dakota (1996–1997). From 2010 to 2013, he served as Director of the Center for British and Irish Studies at CU Boulder.

Smith's research focuses on music history of the Renaissance era, with particular emphasis on English Renaissance music publishing, composers William Byrd and Thomas Tallis, and intersections with politics, portraiture, and poetry; he maintains secondary interests in progressive rock. Major publications include the monographs Thomas East and Music Publishing in Renaissance England (Oxford University Press, 2003), Verse and Voice in Byrd’s Song Collections of 1588 and 1589 (Boydell, 2016), and Tallis and Byrd’s Cantiones sacrae (1575): A Sacred Argument (Boydell, 2023). He edited William Byrd’s Psalmes, Sonets and Songs for The Byrd Edition (Stainer & Bell, 2004), supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, and co-edited Sleuthing the Muse: Essays in Honor of William F. Prizer (Pendragon, 2012). Key articles feature “Music and Late Elizabethan Politics: The Identities of Diana and Oriana” (Journal of the American Musicological Society, 2005) and “A Newly Discovered Edition of William Byrd’s Psalmes, Sonets & Songs” (Notes, 2005). Awards include two Richard S. Hill Awards from the Music Library Association (2001, 2007), CU Boulder Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award (2006), and Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Excellence in Teaching (2011). Smith is a founding member of the editorial board of Music & Politics.