Joshua F. Drake
Joshua F. Drake is an assistant professor of Music and Humanities at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. His dissertation was supervised by Warwick Edwards at the University of Glasgow and concerns the relationship between words and music in motets of the late 15th century.
Professor Drake is also a hymnist as well as a musicologist and his interests include how beauty is recognized in the modern world and how music is a revelation of God to man.
Education
- B.M. Union University in Sacred Music.
- M. Mus. University of Glasgow.
- Ph.D., University of Glasgow (ABD).
Articles
- ‘The Part-books of a Florentine Ex-Patriate: new light on Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Ms. Magl. XIX 164-7’, Early Music (OUP), Vol. 33, no. 4 (Oct. 2005), pp. 639-646. http://em.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/cah154v1
- ‘Aesthetics, Context, and the Music of Obrecht’, panel discussion (with panelists Jenny Bloxam (US), Jacobijn Kiel (NL), Sean Gallagher (US)) at the Annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2004. Professor Drake was also on the programme committee for this conference and chaired a session.
- ‘Randomness and Patterns: repeated texts in Petrucci’s Motet Prints’, paper given at the Annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Jena, Germany, July 2003.
- ‘The Part-books of a Florentine Ex-Patriate: new light on Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Ms. Magl. XIX 164-7’, paper given at the Royal Musical Association, 36th Annual Music Research Students’ Conference, January 2003.
- Worship Music In Toto, Union Academic Forum,(December 14, 2000).http://www.uu.edu/centers/christld/academicforum/student/article.cfm?ID=14
Hymns and Music
Some of his works are available at Cyberhymnal http://cyberhymnal.org/bio/d/r/a/drake_jf.htm.
Hymns
- As in the Days of Haggai When
- Behold, What Light Rolls Back the Sky?
- Eternal God, Mover Unmoved
- Holy Word of God, The
- O Christian Home
- Spirit Binds Us to Our Lord, The
Music
- Flandrensis
- Forest Glen
- Français
- Honoro Patris
- Lex Noster
- Schultz
Conferences
- MEMORY & RHETORIC, Thursday 15th July, Annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference Glasgow, July 2004