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Professor Sam Barrett is the Professor of Early Medieval Music and Fellow and Director of Studies in Music at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. His expertise spans early medieval Latin song, music notation, performance practices, and jazz. He focuses on the intersection of text and music in late antique/medieval contexts and has pioneered analytical methods for assessing previously unstudied musical traditions. His research includes editing early song repertoires and collaborating with ensembles like Sequentia. He directs vocal groups in Cambridge and holds roles as a Trustee of De Profundis and Associate Director of Music at the Church of Our Lady of The Assumption and The English Martyrs.
His teaching covers medieval music (e.g., plainchant, Hildegard of Bingen) and jazz (e.g., Miles Davis, blues history). He supervises PhD projects on topics like al-Kindi’s musical writings, Minnesang performance, and Winchester Troper sequences. His work bridges academic scholarship with performance practice, emphasizing how medieval song traditions inform modern interpretations.
Key contributions include identifying new notated sources (e.g., Horace’s Odes), analyzing liturgical music from Farfa Abbey and Sankt Gallen, and exploring modal jazz economies. His articles (2000–2024) address notation, transmission, and reconstruction challenges in early music. He co-edits the Journal of Musicology and serves on editorial boards for Early Music History.
