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Jerome Roche

1942 – 1994

British musicologist

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Lived 1942 – 1994 (aged 52). Jerome Roche was a British musicologist, university teacher and editor.

Jerome Lawrence Alexander Roche (22 May 1942 – 2 June 1994) was a British musicologist, who specialized in the Italian church music of the baroque era. Among his publications are North Italian Church Music in the Age of Monteverdi, as well as surveys on the life and works of both Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso.

Early life and education Roche was born in 1942 in Cairo, Egypt, the son of an army doctor.

A concert was held in his honour in Durham Cathedral in October 1994.

Selected publications Palestrina (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971) - Oxford Studies of Composers series The Madrigal (New York : C. Scribner's Son, 1972) A Dictionary of Early Music: From the Troubadours to Monteverdi (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981) - edited with Elizabeth Roche Lassus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982) - Oxford Studies of Composers series North Italian Church Music in the Age of Monteverdi (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984)

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St John's College, Downside School
Employers
Durham University
Also known as
Jerome Lawrence Alexander Roche

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Frequently asked questions

Who was Jerome Roche?

British musicologist (1942-1994)

When was Jerome Roche born?

Jerome Roche was born on 22 May 1942.

When did Jerome Roche die?

Jerome Roche died on 2 June 1994.

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Jerome Roche was a musicologist, university teacher and editor.

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Jerome Roche was British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Jerome Roche

· Wikidata: Q15990082

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