Rate My Professor Jeremy Smith

A specialist in English Renaissance music history, with secondary interests in progressive rock and interdisciplinary approaches to English portraiture and poetry, Smith has made significant contributions through his scholarship. His monographs include 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 Press, 2016), and Tallis and Byrd’s Cantiones Sacrae (1575): A Sacred Argument (Boydell Press, 2023). He edited William Byrd’s Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (The Byrd Edition, vol. 12, Stainer & Bell, 2004) and Sleuthing the Muse: Essays in Honor of William F. Prizer (Pendragon Press, 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). Smith co-authored the textbook Music Appreciation: Music Histories and Cultures (multiple editions, 2013–2021). His work has been recognized with two Richard S. Hill Awards from the Music Library Association (2001, 2007), the Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award (2006), and the Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Excellence in Teaching (2011). He is a founding member of the editorial board of Music & Politics, has presented at American Musicological Society meetings, and received support from an NEH Collaborative Research Grant.