Rate My Professor Jeremy Smith

Jeremy L. Smith is Professor of Musicology in the College of Music at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he joined the faculty as Assistant Professor in 2000, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004, and to Professor in 2016. Prior to CU Boulder, he served as Assistant Professor of Musicology at the State University of New York at Fredonia from 1998 to 2000, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History at Millikin University in 1997–1998, and Instructor at the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks in 1996–1997. From 2010 to 2013, he directed the Center for British and Irish Studies at CU Boulder. Smith holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1997), an M.F.A. in Piano Performance from the University of California, Irvine (1990), and a B.A. in Music from Washington College (1985). His research focuses on music history of the Renaissance era in England and the continent, with secondary interests in progressive rock and interdisciplinary studies involving English portraiture and poetry.

Smith has earned significant recognition for his scholarship and teaching, including the Richard S. Hill Award from the Music Library Association in 2001 and 2007, the Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award for Tenured Faculty from CU Boulder in 2006, and the BFA Award for Excellence in Teaching and Pedagogy in 2011. He was a co-recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant in 1999. His major publications include the books Thomas East and Music Publishing in Renaissance England (Oxford University Press, 2003), William Byrd’s Psalmes, Sonets and Songs (Stainer & Bell, 2004, editor), Sleuthing the Muse: Essays in Honor of William F. Prizer (Pendragon, 2012, editor), Verse and Voice in Byrd’s Song Collections of 1588 and 1589 (Boydell, 2016), and Tallis and Byrd’s Cantiones Sacrae (1575): A Sacred Argument (Boydell, 2023). Peer-reviewed articles appear in journals such as the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music & Letters, Early Music, and Notes. Smith is a founding member of the editorial board of Music & Politics, has contributed to reference works including the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and has presented papers at meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Medieval and Renaissance Music Society.