Death of an early musicologist

Death of an early musicologist

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norman lebrecht

November 11, 2015

We are sad to report the death of Theodore Cyrus (Ted) Karp, an expert on medieval monophony and a prolific contributor to New Grove.

Ted, who was 89, was a well-liked professor at UC Davis and Northwestern, where he became department chair. Unusually for a medieval musicologist, he was a devoutly religious Jew.

Here’s a riff from one of his students.

ted karp (with bonnie blackburn)

(pictured in 2009 with Bonnie Blackburn)

Comments

  • Joel Cohen says:

    As I recall he was a student of, and then collaborator with, the great medieval-Renaissance scholar Gustave Reese.

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