{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''John Whenham''' is an English musicologist and academic who specializes in early Italian baroque music. He earned both a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Arts from the University of Nottingham, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford. He is a leading expert on the life and works of Claudio Monteverdi, and is the author of the books ''Duet and Dialogue in the Age of Monteverdi'' (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms International, 1982) ''Monteverdi, 'Orfeo' '' (London: Cambridge University Press, 1986), ''Monteverdi, Vespers (1610)'' (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and ''The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi'' (with Richard Wistreich, Cambridge University Press, 2007). For five years he was co-editor of the journal ''Music & Letters''. He was head of the music department at the University of Birmingham from 2001 to 2011.<ref>[https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/music/whenham-john] Bio of John Whenham at the University of Birmingham]</ref>
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