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Ruth Mary Tatlow (née Ballard) was born in London, England in 1956, and grew up in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colton,_Staffordshire?oldformat=true Colton], Staffordshire. She is a British-Swedish [[:Category:Bach scholars|Bach scholar]], musicologist and writer, and since 2017 a visiting research fellow in the musicology department at Uppsala University, Sweden.<ref>https://katalog.uu.se/empinfo/?id=N19-578 (accessed 3 March 2021)</ref> ▼

▲'''Ruth Mary Tatlow''' (née Ballard) was born in London, England in 1956, and grew up in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/[Colton,_Staffordshire?oldformat=true ColtonStaffordshire]], Staffordshire. She is a British-Swedish [[:Category:Bach scholars|Bach scholar]], musicologist and writer, and since 2017 a visiting research fellow in the musicology department at Uppsala University, Sweden.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://katalog.uu.se/empinfo/?id=N19-578|title=Ruth (accessed Tatlow|access-date=3 March 2021)|language=sv}}</ref>

== Education and Career ==▼

Ruth Tatlow studied at the [https://www.ram.ac.uk/ Royal Academy of Music] (1974–78), and spent two years as a freelance clarinettist (1978-1980), winning second prize in the National Clarinet competition (1979).<ref>https://www.cassgb.org/magazine-archive/121/ (accessed 3 March 2021)</ref> From 1980 she studied musicology at [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ King’s College, London], gaining a first class BMus in 1983 and the Purcell Prize for the top finalist. She was awarded a PhD in 1987, supervised by [[Arnold Whittall]] and advised in 1985 by [https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/altertums-und-kunstwissenschaften/musikwissenschaftliches-institut/institut/personen/siegele-ulrich-prof-i-r-dr/ Ulrich Siegele] (University of Tübingen), funded by a [https://www.daad.de/en/ DAAD] scholarship.▼

▲== Education and Careercareer ==

Ruth Tatlow's doctoral thesis ''[https://books.google.se/books/about/Lusus_Poeticus_Vel_Musicus.html?id=zU3UXwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y Lusus Poëticus vel Musicus]'' was published in 1987. Her first monograph, based on the thesis, was published in 1991 as ''[https://www.cambridge.org/se/academic/subjects/music/eighteenth-century-music/bach-and-riddle-number-alphabet?format=PB Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet]'' by Cambridge University Press, in paperback in 2006, and in Japanese translation in 2011.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4791765877/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3 (accessed 3 March 2021)</ref> ▼

▲Ruth Tatlow studied at the [https://www.ram.ac.uk/ [Royal Academy of Music]] (1974–78), and spent two years as a freelance clarinettist (1978-1980), winning second prize in the National Clarinet competition (1979).<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.cassgb.org/magazine-archive/121/ (accessed|magazine=Clarinet & Saxophone |volume=4 |number=3 |date=1 September 1979 |access-date=3 March 2021)|title=Volume 4 #3 }}</ref> From 1980 she studied musicology at [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ King’s[King's College, London]], gaining a first class BMus in 1983 and the Purcell Prize for the top finalist. She was awarded a PhD in 1987, supervised by [[Arnold Whittall]], and advised in 1985 by [https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/altertums-und-kunstwissenschaften/musikwissenschaftliches-institut/institut/personen/siegele-ulrich-prof-i-r-dr/ Ulrich Siegele] (University of Tübingen), funded by a [https://www.daad.de/en/[German Academic Exchange Service|DAAD]] scholarship.

▲Ruth Tatlow's doctoral thesis ''[Lusus Poëticus vel Musicus'' was published in 1987.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.secom/books/about/Lusus_Poeticus_Vel_Musicus.html?id=zU3UXwAACAAJ&redir_esc|title=y Lusus PoëticusPoeticus velVel Musicus]': Johann Sebastian Bach, the Baroque Paragram and Friedrich Smend's wasTheory publishedof ina Musical Number Alphabet|first=Ruth Mary|last=Tatlow|date=July 26, 1987.|via=Google Books}}</ref> Her first monograph, based on the thesis, was published in 1991 as ''[Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet'' by Cambridge University Press,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cambridge.org/se/academic/subjects/music/eighteenth-century-music/bach-and-riddle-number-alphabet?format,%20https://www.cambridge.org/se/academic/subjects/music/eighteenth-century-music|title=PB Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet]'' by&#124; Eighteenth-century music|website=Cambridge University Press,}}</ref> in paperback in 2006, and in Japanese translation in 2011.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4791765877/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3 (accessed 3 March 2021)</ref>

Her second monograph ''[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/bachs-numbers/5F15E327CD5B79E078519F21195E1B31 Bach’s Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance]'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015), was awarded Choice ‘Outstanding Academic Title 2016’. Her source-based research has raised the awareness of parallel techniques commonly used in the creative arts in Bach’s time, notably the poetical paragram (''Bach and the Riddle''), the acrostic, inventive use of number and musical alphabets (''Bach’s Numbers,'' Chapter 2). Her ground-breaking theory of proportional parallelism (''Bach's Numbers'') has been widely welcomed<ref>For example by Mattias Lundberg, see https://musikforskning.se/stm-sjm/node/212 (accessed 3 March 2021)</ref> albeit with some pockets of resistance.<ref>Daniel R. Melamed, ‘Parallel Proportions’ in J. S. Bach’s Music’, Eighteenth-Century Music 18/1 (2021), 99–121. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/eighteenth-century-music/article/abs/parallel-proportions-in-j-s-bachs-music/3561657117D33DE4FA1AB278DCA00856 (accessed 3 March 2021)</ref> It has also stimulated the application of modern statistical methods to this area of musicology.<ref>Alan Shepherd, ''Let’s Calculate Bach: Applying Information Theory and Statistics to Numbers in Music.'' Springer Nature Switzerland, 2021. See https://www.amazon.com/author/alan_shepherd (accessed 26 July 2021).</ref>▼

▲Her second monograph ''[Bach’s Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/bachs-numbers/5F15E327CD5B79E078519F21195E1B31 Bach’s|title=Bach's Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance]''|first=Ruth|last=Tatlow|date=July (26, 2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press,|doi=10.1017/CBO9781316105061 2015),|isbn=9781316105061 }}</ref> was awarded Choice ‘Outstanding Academic Title 2016’. Her source-based research has raised the awareness of parallel techniques commonly used in the creative arts in Bach’s time, notably the poetical paragram (''Bach and the Riddle''), the acrostic, inventive use of number and musical alphabets (''Bach’s Numbers,'' Chapter 2). Her ground-breaking theory of proportional parallelism (''Bach's Numbers'') has been widely welcomed<ref>For example by Mattias Lundberg, see https://musikforskning.se/stm-sjm/node/212 (accessed 3 March 2021)</ref> albeit with some pockets of resistance.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Daniel R. |last=Melamed, ‘Parallel|title=Parallel Proportions’Proportions' in J. S. Bach’sBach's Music’,Music |journal=Eighteenth-Century Music |volume=18/ |issue=1 (|year=2021), |pages=99–121 |doi=10.1017/S1478570620000305 |s2cid=231810105 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/eighteenth-century-music/article/abs/parallel-proportions-in-j-s-bachs-music/3561657117D33DE4FA1AB278DCA00856 (accessed |access-date=3 March 2021)}}</ref> It has also stimulated the application of modern statistical methods to this area of musicology.<ref>Alan Shepherd, ''Let’s Calculate Bach: Applying Information Theory and Statistics to Numbers in Music.'' Springer Nature Switzerland, 2021. See https://www.amazon.com/author/alan_shepherd (accessed 26 July 2021).</ref>

Popular writing has included programme notes and CD liner notes. In 2000 she wrote for Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s [https://monteverdi.co.uk/recent-projects/bach-cantata-pilgrimage Bach Cantata Pilgrimage] (2000), including a series of twelve booklets for Deutsche Grammophon Arkiv Production.▼

▲Popular writing has included programme notes and CD liner notes. In 2000 she wrote for Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s [https://monteverdi.co.uk/recent-projects/bach-cantata-pilgrimage [Bach Cantata Pilgrimage]] (2000), including a series of twelve booklets for Deutsche Grammophon Arkiv Production.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://monteverdi.co.uk/recent-projects/bach-cantata-pilgrimage|title=Bach Cantata Pilgrimage 2000 &#124; Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra|website=monteverdi.co.uk}}</ref>

Ruth Tatlow has taught musicology in several institutions, including two years at [https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/ Royal Holloway College, London University] (1998–9, sponsored by a Leverhulme Special Fellowship), [https://www.su.se/english/ Stockholm University] (2005-2007), and [https://www.esm.rochester.edu/ Eastman School of Music, Rochester], NY (2010). Numerous research fellowships and awards have facilitated her research and writing, most recently the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Spring 2020).<ref> http://www.swedishcollegium.se/subfolders/Fellows/Invited_Fellows/2019-20/tatlow.html (accessed 3 March 2021)</ref> She is appointed a Derek Brewer Visiting Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, for the Michaelmas Term 2021.<ref>https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/contact/fellows/visiting/ (accessed 3 March 2021)</ref>▼

▲Ruth Tatlow has taught musicology in several institutions, including two years at [https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/ [Royal Holloway College, London University]] (1998–9, sponsored by a Leverhulme Special Fellowship), [https://www.su.se/english/ [Stockholm University]] (2005-2007), and [https://www.esm.rochester.edu/ [Eastman School of Music]], Rochester], NY (2010). Numerous research fellowships and awards have facilitated her research and writing, most recently the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Spring 2020).<ref> http://www.swedishcollegium.se/subfolders/Fellows/Invited_Fellows/2019-20/tatlow.html (accessed 3 March 2021)</ref> She iswas appointed a Derek Brewer Visiting Fellow at [https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/ Emmanuel College, Cambridge], for the Michaelmas Term 2021.,<ref>https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/contact/fellows/visiting/ (accessed 3 March 2021)</ref> and a Visiting Fellow at [https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/ Clare Hall, Cambridge], for the calendar year 2023.<ref>https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Review-2023.pdf p.26 (accessed 9 February 2024)

In 2004 she co-founded [https://bachnetwork.org/about/ Bach Network] with [[Reinhard Strohm]] and [[John_Butt_(musician)|John Butt]] and has been Chair of the Bach Network Council since 2007. In 2006 she designed and then co-edited twelve annual volumes (2006–2017) of the open access, peer-reviewed journal [https://bachnetwork.org/understanding-bach/ Understanding Bach], and is now co-editor of [https://bachnetwork.org/discussing-bach/ Discussing Bach]. Ruth Tatlow also serves on the editorial board of the American Bach Society.<ref>https://www.americanbachsociety.org/administration.html (accessed 3 March 2021)</ref>▼

</ref> She is currently a [https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/ruthtatlow visiting researcher] at the [https://www.gu.se/en/music-drama Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg].

▲In 2004 she co-founded [https://bachnetwork.org/about/ Bach Network] with [[Reinhard Strohm]] and [[John_Butt_John Butt (musician)|John Butt]] and has been Chair of the Bach Network Council since 2007. In 2006 she designed and then co-edited twelve annual volumes (2006–2017) of the open access, peer-reviewed journal [https://bachnetwork.org/understanding-bach/ Understanding Bach], and is now co-editor of [https://bachnetwork.org/discussing-bach/ Discussing Bach]. Ruth Tatlow also serves on the editorial board of the American Bach Society.<ref>https://www.americanbachsociety.org/administration.html (accessed 3 March 2021)</ref>

== Publications ==

'''Books'''

* [https://www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e/10.16993/ban/ ''Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito: A Reappraisal'']. Editors: [https://www.su.se/english/profiles/mtess-1.192236 Magnus Tessing-Schneider] and Ruth Tatlow. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2018. ▼

* [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/bachs-numbers/5F15E327CD5B79E078519F21195E1B31 ''Bach’s Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance'']. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.▼

* [https://www.cambridge.org/se/academic/subjects/music/eighteenth-century-music/bach-and-riddle-number-alphabet?format=PB ''Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet'']. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991/2006.▼

'''Recent online talks'''

▲*[https://www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e/10.16993/ban/ ''Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito: A Reappraisal'']. Editors: [https://www.su.se/english/profiles/mtess-1.192236 Magnus Tessing-Schneider] and Ruth Tatlow. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2018.

* 20 July 2022 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkGHlQqRJI8 'Bach Cantata Texts, Poetic Techniques, and Meanings'], presentation and live discussion with [[Michael Marissen]] and Michael Maul.

▲*[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/bachs-numbers/5F15E327CD5B79E078519F21195E1B31 ''Bach’s Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance'']. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

* 15 July 2021 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd7bNn8evac 'Bach and the Corporeality of Emotions'], presentation and live discussion with [[John Butt (musician)|John Butt]] and [https://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/directory/bettina-varwig Bettina Varwig].

▲*[https://www.cambridge.org/se/academic/subjects/music/eighteenth-century-music/bach-and-riddle-number-alphabet?format=PB ''Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet'']. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991/2006.

* 9 June 2020 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFQgaWZJRnk 'Bach and Emotion: "Zur Recreation des Gemüths"], presentation and live discussion with [[John Butt (musician)|John Butt]] and [https://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/directory/bettina-varwig Bettina Varwig].

* 31 March 2020 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG7LComW7Pk 'Reading Belief through Structural Ordering, 1700-1850'], 1700-1850’ given at the [[Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study]].

'''Selected peer-reviewed book chapters/articles'''

* ‘Symmetry and a Template: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Opus 28’, in Chopin and the Baroque Tradition, Chopin Institute, Warsaw 2019/2020, 51-86.▼

* 'Reading Belief through Compositional Unity: A Lutheran Theology of Proportions and Bach’s Response’. Lutherske perspektiver på liturgisk musikk. Oslo, Novus Forlag, 2019, 115–139.▼

▲*‘Symmetry and a Template: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Opus 28’, in Chopin and the Baroque Tradition, Chopin Institute, Warsaw 2019/2020, 51-86.

* ‘The Use and Abuse of Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section in Musicology Today’, [http://www.bachnetwork.org/ub1/tatlow.pdf Understanding Bach 1 (2006), 69-85]. Published in Hungarian as ‘Hogyan használja (ki) napjaink zenetudománya a Fibonacci-számokat és az aranymetszést?’, translated [https://lfze.hu/musicology-teaching-staff/fazekas-gergely-343 Gergely Fazekas]. Magyar Zene. Hungarian Music Journal of Musicology. 4/2017.▼

▲*'Reading Belief through Compositional Unity: A Lutheran Theology of Proportions and Bach’s Response’. Lutherske perspektiver på liturgisk musikk. Oslo, Novus Forlag, 2019, 115–139.

* ‘A Missed Opportunity: Reflections on Written by Mrs Bach,’ [http://bachnetwork.org/ub10/ub10-tatlow-wbmb.pdf Understanding Bach, 10 (2015), 141–157].

▲*‘The Use and Abuse of Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section in Musicology Today’, [http://www.bachnetwork.org/ub1/tatlow.pdf Understanding Bach 1 (2006), 69-85]. Published in Hungarian as ‘Hogyan használja (ki) napjaink zenetudománya a Fibonacci-számokat és az aranymetszést?’, translated [https://lfze.hu/musicology-teaching-staff/fazekas-gergely-343 Gergely Fazekas]. Magyar Zene. Hungarian Music Journal of Musicology. 4/2017.

*‘A Missed'Theoretical OpportunityHope: ReflectionsA onVision Writtenfor bythe MrsApplication Bachof Historically Informed Theory’,’ [http://www.bachnetwork.org/ub10ub8/ub10-tatlow-wbmbUB8_Tatlow.pdf Understanding Bach, 108 (20152013), 141–15733–60].

* 'TheoreticalCollections, Hope:bars Aand Visionnumbers: forAnalytical theCoincidence Applicationor ofBach’s Historically Informed Theory’,design?' [http://www.bachnetwork.org/ub8ub2/UB8_Tatlowtatlow.pdf Understanding Bach, 82 (20132007), 33–6037-58].

*‘Collections, bars and numbers: Analytical Coincidenceor Bach’s design? [http://www.bachnetwork.org/ub2/tatlow.pdf Understanding Bach, 2 (2007), 37-58].

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