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{{Short description|British-Swedish Bach scholar, musicologist and writer}}
'''Ruth Mary Tatlow''' (née Ballard) was born in London, England in 1956, and grew up in [[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>{{cite web|url=https://katalog.uu.se/empinfo/?id=N19-578|title=Ruth Tatlow|access-date=3 March 2021|language=sv}}</ref>
== Education and career ==
Ruth Tatlow studied at the [[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/ |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 [[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 [[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.com/books?id=zU3UXwAACAAJ|title=Lusus Poeticus Vel Musicus: Johann Sebastian Bach, the Baroque Paragram and Friedrich Smend's Theory of a 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,%20https://www.cambridge.org/se/academic/subjects/music/eighteenth-century-music|title=Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet | 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>
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Popular writing has included programme notes and CD liner notes. In 2000 she wrote for Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s [[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 | Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra|website=monteverdi.co.uk}}</ref>
Ruth Tatlow has taught musicology in several institutions, including two years at [[Royal Holloway College]] (1998–9, sponsored by a Leverhulme Special Fellowship), [[Stockholm University]] (2005-2007), and [[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 was 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)
</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 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>
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'''Recent online talks'''
* 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 [https://www.wikiwand.com/de/Michael_Maul Michael Maul].
* 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].
* 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].