Stephen Rose joined Royal Holloway in 2005. He is currently Professor of Music and Head of the Music Department.
He has held many roles at the university including leading research in the Music Department and the School of Performing and Digital Arts, and leading undergraduate education in Music. As Head of Music he has led work to improve facilities and has built external partnerships to enhance opportunities for our students.
Stephen is a specialist in music history of the 16th to 18th centuries, especially in German-speaking lands and in England. He uses methods from book history, social history and the digital humanities to understand how music travelled between communities, and to illuminate attitudes to the writing and performing of music in this era. His monographs include The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach (2011) and Musical Authorship from Schütz to Bach (2019), and he has led collaborative research projects with the British Library including Early Music Online and A Big Data History of Music. Currently he leads the project Music, Heritage, Place: Unlocking the Musical Collections of England’s County Record Offices, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
