Isabel Pope
American musicologist
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Isabel Pope (October 19, 1901 – February 7, 1989) was an American musicologist and philologist who specialized in Spanish song of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. A 1950 Guggenheim Fellow, she was the translator of the 1946 English-language edition of Adolfo Salazar's book La música moderna and she co-edited The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871 (1979).
- Musicologist
- philologist
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| Born | October 19, 1901 Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | February 7, 1989 (aged 87) Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1950) |
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| Thesis | Sources of the musical and metrical forms of the medieval lyric in the Hispanic peninsula (1930) |
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| Discipline | Musicology |
| Sub-discipline | Spanish song of the Middle Ages and Renaissance |
| Institutions | Radcliffe College |
Biography
Isabel Pope was born on October 19, 1901 in Evanston, Illinois,[1][2] daughter of Maud (née Perry) and Herbert Pope,[2] the latter of whom was a lawyer specializing in federal tax law.[3]
She obtained her BA (1923), MA (1925), and PhD in Romance philology (1930) from Radcliffe College;[1] her doctoral dissertation was titled Sources of the musical and metrical forms of the medieval lyric in the Hispanic peninsula.[4] She also attended Harvard University (1935-1936) as a musicology student under Hugo Leichtentritt.[1] She worked at Radcliffe as a tutor from 1935 to 1940, and after returning from an academic trip to Mexico, from 1945 to 1949.[1]
She specialized in the study of Spanish song of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.[1] She wrote a monograph on the villancico, which Gilbert Chase called "one of the most valuable features" of the book it was published in, Cancionero de Upsala (1944).[5] In 1950, she was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship,[6] both of which she used for abroad travel to study Spanish music.[1] Among her musicological findings included the 13th-century oral lyric roots of the villancico from two centuries later.[1]
She was the literary editor of Harmonices Musices Odhecaton A, Helen Margaret Hewitt's 1942 edition of the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, as well as Hans Tischler's published motet collection.[1] She and Masakata Kanazawa were co-editors of The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871, a 1979 edition of the Cancionero de Montecassino,[7] and she also did academic research on the aforementioned manuscript.[1] She was the translator of W. W. Norton & Company's 1946 English-language edition of the Adolfo Salazar book La música moderna.[8][1]
In 1956, she married Kenneth John Conant.[9] As of 1958, she lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland.[3]
Pope died on February 7, 1989, in Bedford, Massachusetts.[1]