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Herbert Kellman (1930- ) is professor emeritus of musicology, specializing in Renaissance music. Kellman received a diploma in composition from New York College of Music, a BA from the City University of New York, and an MFA in musicology from Princeton University. Prior to coming to the University of Illinois Kellman taught at SUNY Buffalo.

In 1968 Kellman joined the University of Illinois, where he founded the Renaissance Archives alongside Charles Hamm. The archives consists of nearly 1,600 microfilm reels of manuscripts that were produced during the Renaissance, original manuscripts of polyphony from 1550 to 1600, printed anthologies from 1500-1550, and single-composer prints from the 16th-century. Materials from the archive were added to the Music and Performing Arts Library's reference collection. Kellman and Hamm published a five-volume catalogue of the archive called Census-Catalog of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music, 1400-1550, which was released between 1979 and 1988. Kellman is also the editor of facsimilie editions of two manuscripts of polyphony, London, British Library, Royal 8 G VII and Vatican Library, Chigiana C VIII 234; The Treasury of Petrus Alamire: Music and Art in Flemish Court Manuscripts, 1500-1535; and Sources of the Music of Josquin des Prez.  

Kellman has received fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Edowment for the Humanitites, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is also a member of the International Editorial Board of the New Josquin Edition and the series editor of Renaissance Manuscript Studies with the American Institute of Musicology. Following his retirement in 2000, a festschrift entitled, Essays on Music and Culture in Honor of Herbert Kellman, was produced and edited by Barabra Haggh.