Giuseppe Gerbino
Associate Professor
"Laurea" Musicology (University of Pavia 1993)
MA Music (Duke 1997)
PhD Musicology (Duke 2001)
Giuseppe Gerbino joined the Columbia faculty in 2001. His research interests include the Italian madrigal, the relationship between music and language in the early modern period, early opera, and seventeenth-century theory of counterpoint. He is the author of Canoni ad Enigmi: Pier Francesco Valentini e l'artificio canonico nel prima metà del Seicento (Rome, 1995). His publications have appeared in the Journal of Musicology, the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, The Musical Quarterly, Studi Musicali, and Il Saggiatore Musicale. He has received grants and fellowships from the American Musicological Society, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti), the Renaissance Society of America, the Mellon Foundation (Newberry Library), and the American Philosophical Society. His book Music and Myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Selected Publications:
Early Opera: The Initial Phase (I). In European Music, 1520-1640, ed. James Haar (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006), 472-480.
Florentine Petrarchismo and the Early Madrigal: Reflections on the Theory of Origins. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35/3 (Fall 2005): 607-628.
The Madrigal and its Outcasts: Marenzio, Giovannelli, and the Revival of Sannazaro's Arcadia. The Journal of Musicology 21/1 (2004): 3-45.
The Quest for the Soprano Voice: Castrati in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Studi Musicali 32/2 (2004): 303-357.
Canoni ed enigmi: Pier Francesco Valentini e l'artificio canonico nella prima meta' del Seicento. Roma: Torre d'Orfeo, 1995.
Gli arcani piu' profondi dell'arte: presupposti teorici e culturali dell'artificio canonico nei secoli XVI e XVII. Il Saggiatore Musicale 2/2 (1995): 205-236.
Graduate Courses Taught:
Court Society and the Production of Culture
The Origins of Opera
Proseminar in Historical Musicology
Claudio Monteverdi
The Italian Madrigal
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
V3128 Music History Survey: Middle Ages-Renaissance-Baroque
V3124 Music of the Baroque
W1123 Masterpieces of Western Music
V2025 The Opera
