Isabel Pope

Isabel Pope (October 19, 1901 – February 7, 1989) was an American musicologist and philologist who specialized in Spanish song of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. A 1950 Guggenheim Fellow, she was the translator of the 1946 English-language edition of Adolfo Salazar's book La música moderna and she co-edited The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871. Biography Isabel Pope was born on October 19, 1901 in Evanston, Illinois, the latter of whom was a lawyer specializing in federal tax law.

She obtained her BA (1923), MA (1925), and PhD in Romance philology (1930) from Radcliffe College; She also attended Harvard University (1935-1936) as a musicology student under Hugo Leichtentritt. In 1950, she was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, both of which she used for abroad travel to study Spanish music. As of 1958, she lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland. (translated) Music in Our Time (1946; original by Adolfo Salazar) (ed. with Masakata Kanazawa) The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871 (1979)