Bonnie J. Blackburn is an American musicologist.

She graduated from the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

 with a PhD. She studied with Edward Lowinsky

Edward Lowinsky

Edward Elias Lowinsky was an American musicologist born in Stuttgart, Germany,to Leopold L. and Clara Rosenfeld....

 and Howard Mayer Brown

Howard Mayer Brown

Howard Mayer Brown was an American musicologist.Brown obtained his BA from Harvard in 1951 and his Ph.D. in 1959, studying under Walter Piston and Otto Gombosi among others. He conducted and performed on flute often as a graduate student...

. She was Lecturer at Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

, and visiting faculty member at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

 in 1986, and University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, also commonly known as the University at Buffalo or UB, is a public research university and a "University Center" in the State University of New York system. The university was founded by Millard Fillmore in 1846. UB has multiple campuses...

 in 1989-90. She moved to Oxford in 1990, and became a freelance editor.

She married Edward Lowinsky (d. 1985) and subsequently Leofranc Holford-Strevens. She is a corresponding member of the American Musicological Society

American Musicological Society

The American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association and, more directly,...

., and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy

British Academy

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in 2005.

Works

• The Oxford companion to the year, Bonnie J. Blackburn, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0192142313
• "Two Treasure Chests of Canonic Antiquities", Canons and canonic techniques, 14th-16th centuries: theory, practice, and reception history], Editors Katelijne Schiltz, Bonnie J. Blackburn, Peeters Publishers, 2007, ISBN 9789042916814
• "Lorenzo de Medicii, A Lost Isaac Manuscript, and the Venetian Ambassador", Música franca: essays in honor of Frank A. D'Accone, Editors Frank A. D'Accone, Irene Alm, Alyson McLamore, Colleen Reardon, Pendragon Press, 1996, ISBN 9780945193920
• "Motets Based on Popular Songs and Solmization Syllibles", The Josquin companion, Editor Richard Sherr, Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 9780198163350
• Music As Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages, Edited Reinhard Strohm, Bonnie J. Blackburn, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780198162056

• Uno gentile et subtile ingenio: studies in Renaissance music in honour of Bonnie J. Blackburn, Editors Mary Jennifer Bloxam, Gioia Filocamo, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Brepols, 2009

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