David R. M. Irving

David R. M. Irving holds a PhD in musicology from Cambridge University and is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institución Milá y Fontanals—
CSIC, Barcelona, from March 2019. His research spans from music in early modern intercultural exchange to early modern global history and historical performance practice. He is the author of Colonial Counterpoint: Music in Early Modern Manila (2010) and is currently working on a monograph titled How the World Made European Music: A Global History of Early Modern Synthesis. He is co-general editor of the forthcoming Cultural History of Music series from Bloomsbury (2021) and, from March 2019, co-editor of the journal Eighteenth-Century Music.