William Prizer
Position
Professor Emeritus, Musicology Program

Specialization

Musicology Program

Former Department Chair

Bio

Professor Prizer is the author of books and editions of early music, and of more than thirty-five articles that appeared in scholarly journals, collections of essays, and the reports of congresses.  He has written on Renaissance music at north-Italian courts, Florence, and Rome, as well as on gender issues. He also established the importance of the Order of the Golden Fleece as a major patron of sacred music in the Low Countries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He served on several committees of the society and was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society from 1987-1991.