Jerome Lawrence Alexander Roche (22 May 1942 – 2 June 1994) was a British musicologist, who specialized in the Italian church music of the baroque 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.
[1] 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.
[5] Roche died aged 52 at his holiday home in Vittorio Veneto, Italy in June 1994 from a brain tumour.
[7] 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.