Michael Noone

Michael is writing the first study of Susana Muñoz (d. 1625), a young autodidact who, with Artus Tavernier, founded a printing firm that achieved preeminence in universities and cathedrals of Golden Age Spain. Twice-widowed and thrice-married, Susana came to dominate the niche genre of Latin sacred music in large choirbook format in Early Modern Spain. The project revises our understanding of the transmission of Spanish sacred polyphony, and proposes a new theoretical framing of Iberian Choirbook Culture.