Some of the things I am interested in studying, either independently as an enthusiast or in an academic setting when I get the chance.
Chansons and Musical Relation to Poetry in the 15th Century
I have been fascinated by secular repertoire of the 15th century for a while now, especially its secular songs. So I took a directed study in Fall 2024, and produced a paper out of it, which I intend to do further work on.
In April 2025, I started an independent research project to catalogue the kinds of untexted passages in Ox213, with the goal of understanding text underlay and thus poetic relation to music better. You can view the table of data here. Currently I'm seeing if patterns pop up by composer, fascicle, etc.
Singers in the 15th and 16th centuries
As of August 2025 I've been involved with writing biographies for an online project called Prosopography of Renaissance Singers, which is essentially a collection of biographies surrounding individual singers and musicians that are not necessarily composers. The work I do for this is mainly based on secondary sources and transcriptions of primary sources, but I put it here because I think projects like this are important to understanding the musical scene of Western Europe more fully. Currently, I'm focusing on adding singers from the court of Burgundy in the 1380s-1420s, and a few that I particularly enjoyed putting together include Toussains Prier and Jean Grosseteste.
Jean Mouton
Mouton's works have always remained favourites of mine, though I am not entirely sure whether updated critical editions have been done of his motets. To that end, I feel compelled to create editions of his motets that lack modern transcriptions- though, I haven't found the time to start on that yet.
In my free time, I also read up on early music. Here are some great online resources that have helped me in understanding music before the 1700s: