Research Fields

• Medieval music
• Liturgy
• Manuscripts
• Medieval notation
• Latin poetry

About

Prof. Yossi Maurey holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Chicago.  Since 2008, he has been a faculty member of the department of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he holds the Hans J. Salter Chair in musicology. Prof. Maurey specializes in medieval sacred music and liturgy in France.

Selected Publications

Yossi Maurey, Liturgy and Sequences of the Sainte-Chapelle: Music, Relics, and Sacral Kingship in Thirteenth-Century France. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Vol. 35, Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, forthcoming 2021.

Yossi Maurey, The Dominican Mass and Office for the Crown of Thorns.  Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/ Musicological Studies. Lions Bay, Canada: The Institute of Mediæval Music, 2019.

Yossi Maurey, “A Soldier of Great Prowess in a Motet around 1500.” Acta Musicologica 87/2 (2015): 153-192.

Yossi Maurey, Historia Sancti Gatiani, Episcopi Turonensis. Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/ Musicological Studies LXV/23. Lions Bay, Canada: The Institute of Mediæval Music, 2014.

Yossi Maurey, Medieval Music, Legend, and The Cult of St Martin: The Local Foundations of a Universal Saint.  Cambridge University Press, 2014.

 

Selected Awards

Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines (2015)

Recipient of the Rector’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and Research (2016)

 

Teaching

• Bachelor's degree courses
  • The Melo-Dramatic Republic: Song and Opera in 19th-Century France
  • Writing about Music
  • Music in fin-de-siècle France
  • Music, People, the World
  • Ritual, Liturgy, and Additions to the Church Calendar
  • A New (Gregorian) Song in Born
  • Between the Monastery and the City: Monophonic Music in the Middle Ages
  • Notation and Music in the Fifteenth Century
  • Being a Musician in the Renaissance