Music historian, composer, conductor, and keyboard player. Emeritus professor of music, University of California. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1935. Musical studies at the Conservatorio Juan José Landaeta in Caracas, 1945-1952, Yale School of Music, 1954-60 (Mus.B. 1958, Mus.M. 1960) in piano, harpsichord, and composition, and at Harvard University, 1964-67 (PhD 1971) in music history. Taught at Yale (music theory, composition, music history) 1967-1975, the University of Victoria (1975-76), the University of California at Santa Barbara (music history, performance practice, composition, Latin paleography), 1976-82, 1983-89, 1990-2002, Brandeis University (1982-93), and Harvard University (1989-90). Founder of the New Haven chapter of the ISCM in 1962, and of the Cappella Cordina (a medieval and renaissance ensemble) in 1963. At his retirement in 2002 he was the dean of collegium musicum directors in the United States. His compositions have been performed throughout the United States and Canada, Venezuela, and Europe. He has published over a hundred studies in fields such as the history of Latin chant, fifteenth century music, and life of Guillaume Du Fay, and musical theory in the 18^th century, and has about twenty five recordings of medieval and renaissance music, some issued in the United States and other in Europe. He was awarded a Morse research fellowship by Yale University in 1973, the Gustave O. Arlt Award by the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States in 1977, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988.


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