Giuseppe Gerbino
Assistant 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, early opera, and seventeenth-century theory of counterpoint. He is currently completing a book on music and the myth of Arcadia in sixteenth-century Italy. During the academic year 2004–2005, Dr. Gerbino was the Deborah Loeb Brice Residential Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

Selected Publications:

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 metà del Seicento. Roma: Torre d’Orfeo, 1995.

Gli arcani più 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:

The Origins of Opera

Proseminar in Historical Musicology

Claudio Monteverdi, Fall 2002

The Italian Madrigal

Undergraduate Courses Taught:

Music History Survey: Middle Ages-Renaissance-Baroque

V3124 Music of the Baroque

W1123 Masterpieces of Western Music The Opera