Laura Youens
Musicology
lyouens@gwu.edu
ext. 49044
Phillips Hall B-136
Bachelor of Music, 1969, Southwestern University;
Master of Music, 1973, Ph.D., 1978, Indiana University
A native of Houston, Texas, Dr. Youens joined the Department of Music faculty in 1989, and is currently Professor of Music. Her editions of music from Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, MSS Thomaskirche 49/50 were published by A-R Editions in their series Recent Researches in Music of the Renaissance and in Hans Schneider Verlag’s Münchener Editionen zur Musikgeschichte, work supported by a grant from the Humboldt Foundation. She was music editor for Garland Publishing, Inc.’s Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, for which she wrote over 20 entries. Her articles have been published in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Israel, the United States, and Switzerland. Since 1988, she has been the editor of the French chansons of Thomas Crecquillon in Thomasii Crequillonis Opera omnia, published by the American Institute of Musicology in its series Corpus mensurabilis musicae. This edition was initially subsidized by a substantial grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Five volumes have been published, with two more to follow. She is also editing the music of Jean Courtois for Corpus mensurabilis musicae. Other research interests and projects include Victorian dance music, organ tablature arrangements of the music of Orlande de Lassus, Renaissance settings of Latin classical poetry, lute arrangements of French chansons, and letters by Franz Liszt.