Judith Tick

Judith Fay Tick (born January 4, 1943) is an American musicologist. Her scholarship focuses on women in music and American music, often in combination. Described as "an innovator in the field of musical biography", her publications include biographies on both Ruth Crawford Seeger and Ella Fitzgerald, as well as studies on Aaron Copland and Charles Ives.

Life and career Judith Fay Tick was born on January 4, 1943 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, US.

Her writings include the first biography of the modernist composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, which received both ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award and the Society for American Music's Irving R. Lowens Award. She was editor of Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion published in 2008 by Oxford University Press. In 2023, she published a biography of the jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, after more than a decade of research.