James Grier (musicologist)
James Norman Grier (born 27 October 1952) is an American musicologist who is professor of Music History at University of Western Ontario. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. In 2009 he received a Killam Research Fellowship. He discovered 11th-century monk Adémar de Chabannes as one of the first to place musical notes higher or lower according to their pitch, a principle of musical notation still in use today.
James Grier | |
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| Born | 27 October 1952 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian, American |
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| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
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| Discipline | Musicology |
| Institutions | University of Western Ontario |
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