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Jerome Lawrence Alexander Roche (22 May 1942 – 2 June 1994) was a British musicologist, who specialized in the Italian church music of the Baroque music era. Among his publications are North Italian Church Music in the Age of Monteverdi (1984), as well as surveys on the life and works of both Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso.
Roche published editions of music by Francesco Cavalli, Giovanni Battista Crivelli and Alessandro Grandi, and rediscovered many works from the period that had become forgotten. He edited The Penguin Book of Four-Part Italian Madrigals (1974) and Masterworks from Venice (1994).
Roche was a member of the editorial board of the journal The Seventeenth Century from its establishment in 1986. He also regularly contributed articles and book reviews to other journals such as The Musical Times, Music & Letters and Early Music, as well as scholarly publications by the Royal Musical Association.
Roche died aged 52 at his holiday home in Vittorio Veneto, Italy in June 1994 from a brain tumour. The tumour had been discovered earlier in the year, during a period of hospitalisation following a suspected stroke. He was survived by his wife and one daughter, the latter now also a lecturer at Durham.
A concert was held in his honour in Durham Cathedral in October 1994.
In 2001, the Royal Musical Association created the Jerome Roche Prize, which is awarded annually to a young scholar for a published article on musicology in English.
David Scott. " Roche, Jerome." Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press, accessed October 29, 2013.
Personal life and death
Roche was married to Elizabeth, a fellow musicologist and graduate of Durham University. His interests outside of music included railways and meteorology. He was also a committed Catholic.
Selected publications
Categories: 1942 Births, 1994 Deaths, People Educated At Downside School, Alumni Of St John's College, Cambridge, Deaths From Cancer In Veneto, Neurological Disease Deaths In Veneto, Deaths From Brain Cancer In Italy, Academics Of Durham University, 20th-century British Musicologists, Palestrina Scholars, Scholars Of Renaissance Music, Scholars Of Medieval Music
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