Curriculum Vitae: Alanna Tierno currently teaches music history at the Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University. She received her Ph.D. in 2015 from Case Western Reserve University (Ohio, USA), where her dissertation, The Body of Christ Divided: Josquin's Missa Pange lingua in Reformation Germany was supervised by David J. Rothenberg. She also holds a masters degree in musicology from the Pennsylvania State University (2009, An Agnus Dei Trope in the Context of Eucharistic Devotion in Thirteenth-Century Cologne). Dr. Tierno received a Fulbright grant to Germany in 2013-14 for dissertation research, a summer fellowship with Pennsylvania State University's Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and most recently, a fellowship from the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel to complete research for her book on the polyphonic Mass Ordinary in the early Lutheran liturgy. She has presented her research at conferences and colloquia in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Relevant Bibliography:
1. The Lutheran Identity of Josquin’s Missa Pange lingua: Renaissance of a Renaissance Mass,in: Early Music History 36, 2017, p. 193-249.
2. Das ist eine harte Rede; wer kann sie hören? The Lutheran Copies of Josquin’s Missa Pange lingua, in: BURN, David, et al. (eds.), Music and Theology in the European Reformations, Turnhout: Brepols, 2019, p. 211-232.

Links: https://www.su.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/alanna-ropchock/