Isabel Pope
{{Short description|American musicologist}}
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{{Infobox academic
| birth_date = {{birth date|1901|10|19}}
| image =Isabel_Pope_in_1950.jpg
| birth_place = Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1989|2|7|1901|10|19}}
| death_place = Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Musicologist
- philologist
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| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship (1950)
| alma_mater = {{ublist|
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| thesis_title = Sources of the musical and metrical forms of the medieval lyric in the Hispanic peninsula
| thesis_year = 1930
| spouse = {{marriage|Kenneth John Conant|1956|1984|end=d.}}
| discipline = Musicology
| sub_discipline = Spanish song of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
| workplaces = Radcliffe College
}}
Isabel Pope (October 19, 1901 – February 7, 1989) was an American musicologist and philologist who specialized in Spanish song of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. A 1950 Guggenheim Fellow, she was the translator of the 1946 English-language edition of Adolfo Salazar's book La música moderna and she co-edited The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871 (1979).
Biography
Isabel Pope was born on October 19, 1901 in Evanston, Illinois,{{Cite web |last=Morgan |first=Paula |date=2001 |title=Pope [Conant], Isabel |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000022105 |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=Grove Music Online |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.22105}} daughter of Maud ({{nee}} Perry) and Herbert Pope,Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Birth Certificates Index, 1871-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. the latter of whom was a lawyer specializing in federal tax law.{{Cite news |date=1958-07-22 |title=Herbert Pope, Chicago Tax Expert, Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/389973392/ |work=Chicago Tribune |page=F |via=Newspapers.com}}
She obtained her BA (1923), MA (1925), and PhD in Romance philology (1930) from Radcliffe College; her doctoral dissertation was titled Sources of the musical and metrical forms of the medieval lyric in the Hispanic peninsula.{{Cite thesis |last=Pope |first=Isabel |title=Sources of the musical and metrical forms of the medieval lyric in the Hispanic peninsula |degree=PhD |publisher=Radcliffe College |oclc=76995236 |year=1930}} She also attended Harvard University (1935-1936) as a musicology student under Hugo Leichtentritt. She worked at Radcliffe as a tutor from 1935 to 1940, and after returning from an academic trip to Mexico, from 1945 to 1949.
She specialized in the study of Spanish song of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. She wrote a monograph on the villancico, which Gilbert Chase called "one of the most valuable features" of the book it was published in, Cancionero de Upsala (1944).{{Cite journal |last=Chase |first=Gilbert |date=1945 |title=Review of Cancionero de Upsala |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/739172 |journal=The Musical Quarterly |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=381–383 |doi=10.1093/mq/XXXI.3.381 |issn=0027-4631 |jstor=739172|url-access=subscription }} In 1950, she was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship,{{Cite web |title=Isabel Pope |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/isabel-pope/ |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation}} both of which she used for abroad travel to study Spanish music. Among her musicological findings included the 13th-century oral lyric roots of the villancico from two centuries later.
She was the literary editor of Harmonices Musices Odhecaton A, Helen Margaret Hewitt's 1942 edition of the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, as well as Hans Tischler's published motet collection. She and Masakata Kanazawa were co-editors of The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871, a 1979 edition of the Cancionero de Montecassino, and she also did academic research on the aforementioned manuscript. She was the translator of W. W. Norton & Company's 1946 English-language edition of the Adolfo Salazar book La música moderna.
In 1956, she married Kenneth John Conant.{{Cite web |title=Conant, Kenneth John |url=https://arthistorians.info/conantk/ |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=Dictionary of Art Historians}} As of 1958, she lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Pope died on February 7, 1989, in Bedford, Massachusetts.
Bibliography
- (ed. with Helen Margaret Hewitt) Harmonices Musices Odhecaton A (1942){{Cite journal |last=F. |first=C. W. |date=1942 |title=Review of Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/890364 |journal=Notes |issue=15 |pages=59 |doi=10.2307/890364 |issn=0027-4380 |jstor=890364|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Fédorov |first=Vladimir |date=1947 |title=Review of Harmonice musices odhecaton A. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/925350 |journal=Revue de Musicologie |volume=29 |issue=81/84 |pages=111–113 |doi=10.2307/925350 |issn=0035-1601 |jstor=925350|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=H. |first=A. |date=1943 |title=Review of Harmonices Musices Odhecaton A |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/727044 |journal=Music & Letters |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=251 |issn=0027-4224 |jstor=727044}}
- (translated) Music in Our Time (1946; original by Adolfo Salazar){{Cite journal |last=Cowell |first=Henry |date=1947 |title=Review of Music in Our Time |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/739441 |journal=The Musical Quarterly |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=126–130 |doi=10.1093/mq/XXXIII.1.126 |issn=0027-4631 |jstor=739441}}{{Cite journal |last=Fox |first=Charles Warren |date=1946 |title=Review of Music in Our Time. Trends in Music Since the Romantic Era; Modern Music. Composers and Music of Our Time |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/890891|jstor=890891 |journal=Notes |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=80–82 |doi=10.2307/890891 |issn=0027-4380|url-access=subscription }}
- (ed. with Masakata Kanazawa) The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871 (1979){{Cite journal |last=Atlas |first=Allan |date=1980 |title=Review of The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871: A Neapolitan Repertory of Sacred and Secular Music of the Late Fifteenth Century |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/940252 |journal=Notes |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=45–47 |doi=10.2307/940252 |issn=0027-4380 |jstor=940252|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Brown |first=Howard Mayer |date=1980 |title=Review of The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/733360 |journal=Music & Letters |volume=61 |issue=2 |pages=217–220 |doi=10.1093/ml/61.2.217 |issn=0027-4224 |jstor=733360}}{{Cite journal |last=Fenlon |first=Iain |date=1980 |title=Two 15th-Century Chansonniers |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/961201 |journal=The Musical Times |volume=121 |issue=1648 |pages=376–378 |doi=10.2307/961201 |issn=0027-4666 |jstor=961201|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Hortschansky |first=Klaus |date=1981 |title=Review of The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871. A Neapolitan Repertory of Sacred and Secular Music of the Late Fifteenth Century |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/41118638 |journal=Die Musikforschung |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=218–220 |issn=0027-4801 |jstor=41118638}}{{Cite journal |last=Lockwood |first=Lewis |date=1980 |title=Isabel Pope and Masakata Kanazawa, eds. The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871: A Neapolitan Repertory of Sacred and Secular Music of the Late Fifteenth Century |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarterly/article/abs/isabel-pope-and-masakata-kanazawa-eds-the-musical-manuscript-montecassino-871-a-neapolitan-repertory-of-sacred-and-secular-music-of-the-late-fifteenth-century-oxford-clarendon-press-1978-xxiv-676-pp-65/1881BE1B80FACB89B300B7126A89171E |journal=Renaissance Quarterly |language=en |volume=33 |issue=4 |pages=774–776 |doi=10.2307/2860707 |jstor=2860707 |issn=0034-4338|url-access=subscription }}
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