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, Professor Youens joined the Department of Music faculty in 1989, and is currently Professor of Music. Her editions of music from Leipzig, Universitaetsbibliothek, MSS Thomaskirche 49/50 were published by A-R Editionsí Recent Researches in Music of the Renaissance and Hans Schneider Verlag's Muenchener Editionen sur 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, 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, and her most recent research is being published by the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance in Tours, France.
