Vincent Corrigan has received degrees in music education, piano, harpsichord, and musicology from Carnegie-Mellon University and Indiana University. His primary interests lie in Medieval music (polyphony of the 12th and 13th centuries; early liturgies) and harpsichord performance. In 1987 he received an NEH Summer Stipend for work on the Medieval Lyric. He has studied harpsichord with the late Fernando Valenti and Marie Zorn, and musicology with John Reeves White, Edward Roessner, and Hans Tischler. He is currently professor of music history and harpsichord in the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University. Publications include a facsimile edition of the manuscript Paris, BNF lat. 1143, articles on modal transmutation, the rhythm of trouvère song, hemiola, the Codex Calixtinus, and musical transcriptions for The Medieval Lyric: A Project supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Scott Messing is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Music at Alma College. He holds a Ph.D. in historical musicology (University of Michigan, 1986). Publications include Neoclassicism in Music: From the Genesis of the Concept through the Schonberg/Stravinsky Polemic (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1988; rep. Rochester: Rochester University Press, 1996). Articles appear in Modern Art and the Condition of Music, ed. James Leggio (London and New York: Routledge, 2002); and Wien 1897: Kulturgeschichtliches Profil eines Epochenjahres, ed. Christian Glanz (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, 1999). Journal articles appear in The Beethoven Journal, The Journal of Musicology, Proteus, and The Michigan Academician. Book reviews are published in Notes, Slavic Review, and American Music. Scott has read numerous papers since 1980 at AMS meetings and he has chaired the Midwest AMS nominating committee. At Alma College, Scott served as Chair of the Faculty, the Humanities Division, and the Music Department.