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Dear members of the AMS-List,
With deep sorrow, I write to inform you of the loss of Martin Picker, who
died early Wednesday after a long illness. Martin made his mark early in
his career with the publication, in 1965, of his 1960 dissertation (UC
Berkeley) on two chansonniers once belonging to Margaret of Austria, the
first book-length study of Renaissance manuscripts in their historical
contexts. Subsequently, he served as editor of JAMS, as well as a
supervising editor for the AMS Publications Committee and The Broude
Trust.
Martin was the author of almost fifty articles, reviews, books, and
editions, including Garland Guides to Research on Ockeghem and Obrecht (in
one volume) and Isaac (another volume), an edition for AR of the numerous
settings of Ockeghem's Fors seulement, and an edition in the series
Monuments of Renaissance Music of Andrea Antico's motet vol- umes. He was
also a contributor to the New Josquin Edition, and arti- cles by him
appeared in Annales musicologiques, The Musical Quarterly, JAMS, and
several Festschriften and volumes of conference papers.
After teaching briefly at the University of Illinois, Martin became a
faculty member at Rutgers University in 1961, where he chaired the
department of music from 1973 to 1979. Upon his retirement from Rutgers
in the mid 1990s, he and his wife, Ruth, built a new home in
Charlottesville, VA, where he remained active as a reviewer of con- certs
for the local press.
Those of us for whom Martin was a mentor, inspiration, and generous friend
will miss him sorely.
Sincerely,
Richard Wexler
University of Maryland
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I have another sad loss to Renaissance musicology to report. Clement A.
Miller died on 15 January, shortly before his 90th birthday. He has the
gratitude of generations of scholars and students for his work on and
translations of the classics of late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century
music theory: Glareanus, Gaffurius, Cochlaeus, Burzio, and Ramos.
I came to know him after his retirement from John Carroll University when
he, I, and Edward Lowinsky bent our energies to editing the Spataro
Correspondence, to which he contributed a chapter on the discussion of
mensural notation in the letters.
Clement Miller remained active in retirement. When the Ramos translation
came out in 1993 it was dedicated to his second wife, Nancy, who gave him
a new lease on life after he was widowed. They had been planning to spend
his 90th birthday in Hawaii.
Bonnie Blackburn
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Oxford OX2 6EJ
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