James Grier (musicologist)

{{Short description|Canadian-American musicologist (born 1952)}}

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James Norman Grier (born 27 October 1952){{cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=https://music.uwo.ca/faculty/images-pdf/GrierCV.pdf |website=Western University |access-date=24 February 2024}} is a Canadian-American musicologist who is professor of Music History at University of Western Ontario.{{cite web |title=James Grier, FRSC - Don Wright Faculty of Music |url=https://music.uwo.ca/faculty/bios/james-grier.html |website=Western University |access-date=24 February 2024}} He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020.{{cite web |last1=Van Brenk |first1=Debora |title=Musicologist Grier named Guggenheim Fellow |url=https://news.westernu.ca/2020/04/musicologist-grier-named-prestigious-guggenheim-fellow/ |website=Western News |access-date=24 February 2024 |date=13 April 2020}} In 2009 he received a Killam Research Fellowship. He discovered 11th-century monk Adémar de Chabannes as one of the first to place musical notes higher or lower according to their pitch, a principle of musical notation still in use today.{{cite news |last1=Montgomery |first1=Marc |title=Canadian musicologist makes 900 year old discovery |url=https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2014/10/22/canadian-musicologist-make-900-year-old-discovery/ |access-date=24 February 2024 |work=Radio Canada International |date=22 December 2014}}