Grantley McDonald Author of Evaluating Organization Development
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Grantley McDonald

Postdoctoral researcher
University of Oxford

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, where I work on music in the late mediaeval Habsburg courts (www.malmecc.eu). I also direct a project on the chapel of Maximilian I Habsburg at the University of Vienna.

Subjects: History, Music

Biography

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, where I work on music in the late mediaeval Habsburg courts (www.malmecc.eu). I also direct a project on the chapel of Maximilian I Habsburg at the University of Vienna. My research focusses on learned culture in the Renaissance, especially the links between musical thought, theology, philosophy and medicine. My PhD dissertation in musicology (University of Melbourne) focussed on the German reception of the musical thought of Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499). My PhD dissertation in history (Leiden) was a study of the political and cultural implications of the New Testament edition of Erasmus. I have also been one of the editors of the online database Verzeichnis deutscher Musikfrühdrucke / Catalogue of early German printed music (www.vdm16.sbg.ac.at) since its inception in 2012.

Education

    PhD, musicology (University of Melbourne, 2002)
    PhD, history (University of Leiden, 2011)

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

    Learned culture in the Renaissance, especially music theory, medicine, philosophy and theology; music and musicians in the middle ages and Renaissance; Reformation Europe

Personal Interests

    Music (listening and making); cooking; books

Books

Early Printed Music and Material Culture - 1st Edition book cover
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Featured Title - Early Music Printing in German-Speaking Lands - 1st Edition book cover

Articles

Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony, ed. Maude Vanhaelen and Jacomien Prins

‘The reception of Ficino’s theory of world harmony in Germany’


Published: Jan 01, 2018 by Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony, ed. Maude Vanhaelen and Jacomien Prins
Authors: McDonald, Grantley

This article provides an overview of the reception of the musical writings of Marsilio Ficino by German writers on music, magic and natural philosophy from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries.