Andrew Woolley

Andrew Woolley is Principal Researcher at CESEM, Center for Sociology and Aesthetics of Music at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where he was previously FCT Researcher (2016–21) and co-investigator of a project on watermarks and handwriting at the National Library of Portugal ( 2022–23). Among his activities as an integrated member of CESEM, he serves as one of the editors of the Portuguese Early Music Database (polyphony) and in 2021 took on a leading role in the organization of the 49th MedRen. The main objective of his current research is to address musical creative practices before 1700 through the codicological study of sources and musical analysis, with a special focus on the varied ways in which Iberian instrumental repertoires are preserved in their sources (in terms of their notation and their musical texts).