Ellis Gibbons was evidently counted as having promise by his contemporaries: at the age of 28 he became the only composer, other than the editor Thomas Morley himself, to contribute two madrigals to The Triumphs of Oriana, a collection of 25 madrigals published in 1601, although the American musicologist Joseph Kerman (in his 1962 comparative study of the English madrigal) states that "possibly one of the two is by Edward Gibbons."
In 1980 Joseph Kerman published the article "How We Got into analysis, and How to Get Out," calling for a change in musicology.
Joseph Stalin | Joseph Conrad | Saint Joseph | Joseph Haydn | Joseph Beuys | Joseph | Joseph Goebbels | Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor | Joseph Barbera | Joseph Chamberlain | Joseph Brodsky | Franz Joseph I of Austria | Joseph Henry Blackburne | Joseph Banks | Joseph McCarthy | Joseph II | Joseph Campbell | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Joseph Priestley | Kerman | Joseph Bonaparte | Joseph Pulitzer | Joseph Stiglitz | Joseph Paxton | Joseph Addison | Joseph Rothrock | Joseph Losey | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Joseph Story | Joseph Whitworth |
He is best known for his book on the Beethoven quartets, which was the most widely read and quoted book on the subject prior to Joseph Kerman's 1966 book The Beethoven Quartets.
James Haar, Anthony Newcomb, Massimo Ossi, Glenn Watkins, Nigel Fortune, Joseph Kerman, Jerome Roche: "Madrigal", Grove Music Online, ed.