Joseph Sargent

Joseph Sargent  is a musicologist specializing in Renaissance sacred music. He received a B.A. from the University of Rochester and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, with a dissertation on the sixteenth-century Spanish Magnificat. Prior to joining the University of Montevallo faculty, he taught at California State University-East Bay, the University of San Francisco, the University of California-Davis and Stanford.

Dr. Sargent’s research interests include Magnificats and other sacred repertory of sixteenth-century Spain and England, the Renaissance L'homme armé tradition, modern English cathedral music and intersections between music and religion. His articles and reviews appear in Early Music History, Fontes Artis Musicae and Sacred Music, as well as several edited collections on music in Spain and Germany. He has presented at local and national meetings of the American Musicological Society as well as the Medieval-Renaissance Conference, the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, the Renaissance Society of America and the Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain. His research has been supported by grants from the Fulbright Program, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the A.A. Heckman Fund. As a public lecturer he has given talks for San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Early Music Society, among other organizations. 

Also active as a professional conductor and choral singer, Dr. Sargent has directed early music ensembles at Stanford and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. He has performed and recorded with premier choral ensembles in wide-ranging repertory, from early music to new music.