John Whenham

Biographic Data

ID3972828
NAMEJohn Whenham
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEWhenham
SIGNATUREWHENHAM J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Birmingham
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR26
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX0

  • Monteverdi's 'Selva Morale E[T] Spirituale' (1641)

    John WhenhamARTICLEMusic and Letters2014

    Monteverdi’s Selva morale e[t] spirituale presents us with a number of intriguing bibliographical questions, of which the problem of the dual title pages in the Bologna exemplar—one dated 1640, the other 1641—is well known. This essay supports Jeffrey Kurtzman’s conclusion that the volume was actually published in 1641, after a delay. It also considers the anomalous structure of the tavole found at the end of the partbooks. Taken together with wa…

  • Monteverdi

    John WhenhamBOOKMonteverdi2010

  • Nigel Fortune

    John WhenhamARTICLEMusic and Letters2009

    Dr Nigel Fortune, who was co-editor of Music & Letters for twenty-eight years from 1980 to 2008 (see the memoir of him by Edward Olleson, published in Music & Letters, 89 (2008), 163–4), died at his home in Birmingham on 10 April 2009. Active as writer, editor, teacher, and administrator, he was one of a group of scholars who established musicology as a serious professional discipline in Britain after the Second World War. Fortune was born on 5 D…

  • Ferrari [Ferrari ‘dalla Tiorba’; Ferrari ‘della Tiorba’], Benedetto (opera)

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Manelli [Mannelli], Francesco (opera)

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Monteverdi [Monteverde], Claudio (opera)

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Laurenzi [Laurenti, Lorenzi], Filiberto

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Orafi [Oraffi], Pietro Marcellino [Vincenzo]

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Nantermi, Filiberto

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Sabbatini, Pietro Paolo

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Strozzi, Giulio

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Ferrari [Ferrari ‘dalla Tiorba’; Ferrari ‘della Tiorba’], Benedetto

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Nantermi, Michel’Angelo

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Manelli [Mannelli], Francesco

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Radesca (di Foggia), Enrico Antonio

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Vittori [Vittorij], Loreto

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Fontei [Fonte, Fonteio], Nicolò

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Nantermi, Orazio

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Cossoni [Consoni, Cossogna, Cossonio], Carlo Donato

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Nantermi family

    John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Rovetta, Giovanni

    Jerome Roche, John WhenhamEDITORCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Dialogue

    David Nutter, John WhenhamCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Sances [Sancies, Sanci, Sanes, Sanchez], Giovanni Felice

    John Whenham, Steven Saunders et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Questions of Identity

    Wilfrid Mellers, Gershwin Gershwin et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times1998

  • Monteverdi

    Open AccessJohn WhenhamBOOKMonteverdi1997

    Monteverdi's Vespers is an exceptional collection of sacred music, both in the inventiveness of the compositions that it contains and in the debate that it has provoked over its use in the seventeenth century and over Monteverdi's intentions in publishing it. This Handbook provides a guide to the music in all its aspects – from an introduction to the service of Vespers itself, through the practice of chanting psalms in plainsong to analysis of Mo…