Dr Louisa Hunter-Bradley

Louisa is an early career researcher, currently working as a research associate for the DORMEME project based at King's College, University of London, “Dissemination, ownership and reading of music in early modern Europe”, originally funded by the European Research Council (now by the UKRI) - Principal Investigator: Elisabeth Giselbrecht. Her interest in the production of music books, their dissemination and use, predominantly in the Low Countries during the early modern period, extends to her work as a singer and recorder player, festival director, music coach and editor. She completed her Doctoral studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, has held research roles at Harvard University and KU Leuven, and has taught on the academic staff at Royal Holloway, Monash University and The University of Melbourne. Louisa endeavours to enjoy a positive balance between her academic interests and her young son, and feels fortunate he seems to love their trips to Antwerp almost as much as she does.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Commissioning, production and dissemination of music books in the early modern period.
• Development of music notation and its influence on performance.
• Tracing the sales and users of printed music through the book fairs in the early modern period.
• The use of the recorder in the late baroque period.
• Urban identity in British popular music.

Selected publications

'The Officina Plantiniana and the European market for printed music (1579-1600)' in Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl and Grantley McDonald (eds.), Early Printed Music and Material Culture in Central and Western Europe. London: Routledge, 2021: 280-302.

'Henri du Tour's Grande Musicque: a typeface for Plantin's polyphonic choirbook music publications.' in Vincenzo Borghetti and Tim Shephard (eds.), The Museum of Renaissance Music: A History in 100 Exhibits. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022, in print.

(with James Ritzema), 'Lasting Impressions in Salzburg' (conference report), Early Music, 46/iii (August 2018) 544-545.

'Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference Report (3-6 July 2014)' (conference report), Royal Music Association Newsletter, XVIII/2 (November 2014)