Biography

Name, Title, & Role(s)

Full Name:

Giuseppe Gerbino

Position/Title:

Associate Professor of Music

Position/Title:

Chair, Historical Musicology Area Committee (2008-10)

Position/Title:

Director of Undergraduate Studies for Music Majors in General Studies

Contact Information

Office Address:

806 Dodge Hall

Office Hours:

By appointment

Columbia e-mail:

gg2024@columbia.edu

Telephone Number(s):

212 854 6299

Mailing Address:

Columbia University Department of Music 806 Dodge Hall 2960 Broadway, MC 1819 New York, NY 10027

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 Renaissance theories of cognition and sense perception. He is the author of Canoni ad Enigmi: Pier Francesco Valentini e l'artificio canonico nel prima metà del Seicento (Rome, 1995), and Music and Myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge, 2009). 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), the American Philosophical Society, and the Italian National Research Center (CNR).

Degrees, Publications, and Recordings

Degrees:

"Laurea" Musicology (University of Pavia 1993)

MA Music (Duke 1997)

PhD Musicology (Duke 2001)

Selected Publications:

Books

Music and the Myth of Arcadia in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Canoni ed enigmi: Pier Francesco Valentini e l’artificio canonico nella prima metà del Seicento. Rome: Torre d’Orfeo, 1995.

Articles and Book Chapters

“Skeptics and Believers: Music, Warfare, and the Political Decline of Renaissance Italy according to Francesco Bocchi,” The Musical Quarterly 90/3-4 (2007): 578-603.

"Stealing for the Duke: Girolamo Belli’s I furti (1584)," in Fiori Musicali: Liber Amicorum for Alexander Silbiger on his 75th Birthday, ed. Claire Fontijn and Susan Parisi (Sterling Heights, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2009), 129-163.

“Rimanti in pace: temna stran Arkadije v glasbi in Claudia Monteverdija” [Rimanti in pace: The Dark Side of Arcadia in Marenzio’s and Monteverdi’s Music], trans. Katarina Ster, Historični Seminar 2007, Lubjana, Institute of Musicology, 117-139.

“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.

“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.