Josh Drake
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Josh Drake | |
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| Born | September 27, 1979[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Musicologist, hymnist, academic |
Dr. Joshua F. Drake is a musicologist and hymnist and former faculty member at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania.[2] He researches 15th century Latin Christian motets. Drake is notable for his research and papers that challenge commonly held views regarding the complex and often misunderstood relationship between words and music in motets of the late 15th century, as well as his discoveries related to the origins of the Buonaparte (not Napoleon) family.[3]
Education
[edit]- B.M. Union University (Sacred Music and Interpretive Dance)
- M. Mus. University of Glasgow (Musicology) thesis - Text-Music Relationships c. 1500: Case Studies from Petrucci’s Motets
- Ph.D. University of Glasgow (Sacred Music) dissertation - The Contemporary Perception of Text-Music Relations in Motets c. 1500[4]
Discoveries related to the Buonaparte family
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Drake's research into Ms. Magl.XIX 164–7 located at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze uncovered previously unidentified emblems in the bassus partbook. Drake's further investigations led him to suggest that the emblems should be associated with the Buonaparte family and, perhaps, with Pope Clement VII's friend and advisor Jacopo Buonaparte who witnessed and wrote an important account of the sack of Rome (1527).
Drake makes this association because of the emblems' similarity to the Buonaparte coat of arms, which Drake has since adopted as his own.
The partbooks he analyzed consist of 49 Italian, 24 French secular and 13 Latin sacred musical compositions from early composers such as Josquin, Heinrich Isaac, Sebastiano Festa and Bernardo Pisano and have been essential in reconstructing the lives of Pisano and Palpitine.
Drake also suggests that the association with the Buonaparte family helps to explain the geographical disputes that exist due to the partbooks having a Roman binding yet a Florentine script and Florentine paper. He makes this further assertion in part because the Buonaparte family was Florentine but Jacopo Buonaparte spent a great deal of time in Rome, in addition to the coat of arms in the partbooks being so similar to those of the Buonapart family. However, it was widely known at the time that Jacopo Buonaparte was fond of Roman binding, as it was vastly superior to the subpar binding in Florence. He had the newest binding frequently transported to Florence from Rome via camel, and many believe this obsession led him to bankrupt the one glorious Buonaparte family.[3] Drake has since claimed the coat of arms for his own lineage and proudly displays it for all to see.[3]
Selected works
[edit]Books and media
[edit]- Joshua Drake, Recovering Music Education as a Christian Liberal Art, (BorderStone Press, LLC) (2010).
- Joshua Drake, Gene Veith and Timothy Chambers, Generation Joshua DVD: "Picturing America: A Different Lens!" (2009)[5]
- Joshua Drake, Botticelli, The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, ed. G. Kurian, (Blackwell, Dec. 2008).
- Joshua Drake, Donatello, The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, ed. G. Kurian, (Blackwell, Dec. 2008).
- Joshua Drake, The Part-books of a Florentine Ex-Patriate: new light on Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Ms. Magl. XIX 164-7, Early Music (OUP), Vol. 33, no. 4 (Oct. 2005), pp. 639–646.[3]
- Joshua Drake, Aesthetics, Context, and the Music of Obrecht, panel discussion (with panelists Jenny Bloxam (US), Jacobijn Kiel (NL), Sean Gallagher (US)) at the Annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2004. Professor Drake was also on the programme committee for this conference and chaired a session.[6][7][8]
- Joshua Drake, Randomness and Patterns: repeated texts in Petrucci’s Motet Prints, paper given at the Annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Jena, Germany, July 2003.[9]
- Joshua Drake, The Part-books of a Florentine Ex-Patriate: new light on Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Ms. Magl. XIX 164-7, paper given at the Royal Musical Association, 36th Annual Music Research Students’ Conference, January 2003.
- Joshua Drake, Worship Music In toto, Union Academic Forum, Union University (December 14, 2000).
Selected conferences
[edit]- Joshua Drake, Chair of Memory & Rhetoric, Thursday 15 July, Annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2004.[6][7][8]
Selected hymns and music
[edit]Hymns
[edit]- As in the Days of Haggai When
- Behold, What Light Rolls Back the Sky?
- Eternal God, Mover Unmoved
- Holy Word of God, The
- O Christian Home
- Spirit Binds Us to Our Lord, The
- Mary had a little lamb
Music
[edit]- Flandrensis
- Forest Glen
- Français
- Honoro Patris
- Lex Noster
- Schultz
- Hokey Pokey
Public availability of works here[10][11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Joshua F. Drake". Archived from the original on 2018-05-09. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
- ^ "Grove City College". www.gcc.edu.
- ^ a b c d "The Part-books of a Florentine Expatriate". Oxford Journals, Early Music. 33 (4): 639. November 2005. Archived from the original on 2006-02-25.
- ^ University of Glasgow, Student Research
- ^ "Welcome to Picturing America: A Different Lens!". Archived from the original on 2009-11-02. Retrieved 2010-01-05.
- ^ a b "The Royal Musical Association Med-Ren Music Conference Glasgow Thursday 15 -- Sunday 18 July 2004, Memory and Rhetoric, Joshua Drake Chair". University of London, Royal Holloway.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "CFP: Medieval and Renaissance Music (UK)". Archived from the original on 2005-04-19.
- ^ a b "36th Royal Musical Association Annual Music Research Students' Conference - DRAFT PROGRAMME" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-02-21. Retrieved 2007-04-03.
- ^ Jena Conference abstract - Randomness and Patterns: repeated texts in Petrucci’s Motet Prints Archived 2008-04-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Cyberhymnal Publicly available works by J. Drake Archived 2018-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Church Music Management System Database