Davitt Moroney
British musician
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Davitt Moroney's Degrees
- PhD Music University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Davitt Moroney is a British-born and educated musicologist, harpsichordist and organist. His parents were of Irish and Italian extraction – his father was an executive with the Anglo-Dutch Unilever conglomerate. From 1968 onward, he undertook his undergraduate and graduate studies in musicology at King's College London, the faculty of which was headed by Thurston Dart, a great influence on the world of early music. Moroney later pursued advanced harpsichord studies with Kenneth Gilbert and Gustav Leonhardt. Moroney also holds performance and teaching diplomas from the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. After earning his PhD in musicology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 with a thesis on the music of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, he returned to Paris and worked mainly as a freelance performer until returning to the United States to serve on the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2001.
Davitt Moroney's Published Works
Published Works
- Alessandro Striggio's Mass in Forty and Sixty Parts (2007) (29)
- William Byrd and His Contemporaries: Essays and a Monograph (2006) (9)
- Plumage changes in the Superb Lyrebird (1972) (3)
- Bach : An Extraordinary Life (2000) (2)
- The Purcell manuscript (1995) (1)
- Twenty keyboard pieces ; and one by Orlando Gibbons : from Purcell's autograph manuscript in the British Library, MS.MUS.I (1999) (1)
- Manuscrit Bauyn, ca 1690 : fac-similé du manuscrit de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Rés. Vm7 674-675 (1977) (1)
- The Borel Manuscript: A New Source of Seventeenth-Century French Harpsichord Music at Berkeley (2005) (1)
- A collection of lessons for the harpsichord (1977) (1)
- Antico Editions Surveyed (1974) (0)
- The art of fugue = Die Kunst der Fuge : BWV 1080 (2002) (0)
- Six suites of lessons for the harpsichord or spinet (1734) (1981) (0)
- John Blow's anthology (1978) (0)
- Listening To and Playing The Well-Tempered Clavier (2009) (0)
- Harmonia sacra & complete organ music (2001) (0)
- Trills in Keyboard music (1979) (0)
- The mystery sonatas (1990) (0)
- 'Thinking and Pondering' about Byrd:... on Two Recent Books (1987) (0)
- Madrigals Re-Edited (1979) (0)
- A record of the Masked Gannet in New South Wales. (1966) (0)
- London Pro Musica Editions-2 (1975) (0)
- Gustav Leonhardt’s ‘authenticity’ (2013) (0)
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