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Faculty & Staff > History & Theory > Mauro Calcagno |
Mauro Calcagno, Assistant Professor
Music History and Theory
Ph.D. Yale University, 2000
E-mail Mauro Calcagno at mauro.calcagno[at]stonybrook.edu
Mauro Calcagno's work focuses on madrigal, early opera, performance studies, and the history of theory and aesthetics, with an emphasis on early modern Italy. Publications include an article on Monteverdi's operas in the Journal of the American Musicological Society and various essays on Italian Baroque opera and Renaissance madrigal; his article on the aesthetics of voice in seventeenth-century music, published in the Journal of Musicology, received the Einstein Award from the American Musicological Society.
Calcagno has recently completed a book entitled From Madrigal to Opera: Performing the Self in Early Modern Italy. His edition of Cavalli's Eliogabalo, used for performances in Brussels and Innsbruck under Rene Jacobs, will be published by Baerenreiter. Director of a new-edition project of Marenzio's secular works. Editor of a volume devoted to Marenzio to be published by CESR/Brepols. Editor of an upcoming issue of Opera Quarterly devoted to early opera. Past president of the AMS New England Chapter (2004-06).
Professor Calcagno previously taught at Harvard and joined the Stony Brook faculty in 2008.
Dec. 2000: Yale University, Ph.D., Music. Dissertation: Staging Musical Discourses in Seventeenth-Century Venice: Francesco Cavalli's Eliogabalo (1667)
Nov. 1992: University of Rome, Italy: Laurea in Humanities (Lettere e filosofia), Summa cum laude. M.A. Thesis: Heinrich Schenker's analysis of Beethoven's Op. 109
June 1986: Conservatory of Santa Cecilia, Rome, Italy: Diploma (highest degree) in piano
GRANTS AND AWARDS (after doctoral degree, external only)
2005: American Musicological Society: Alfred Einstein Award for Outstanding Article in Musicology (for a scholar in early stages of career)
2002-03: American Council for Learned Societies: Junior Faculty Fellowship
2001: The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation: Grant for Independent Research on Venetian History and Culture (Summer)
PUBLICATIONS
1. Published articles
a) In peer-reviewed journals:
Censoring Eliogabalo in Seventeenth-Century Venice, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 36 n. 3 (2005), 355-377 (issue entitled Opera and Society, Part 1 of 2)
Signifying Nothing: On the Aesthetics of Pure Voice in Early Venetian Opera, Journal of Musicology, vol. 20 n. 4 (2003), 461-97
Monteverdi’s parole sceniche, Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, vol. 9 n. 1 (2003) http://sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu/jscm/v9no1.html
‘Imitar col canto chi parla’: Monteverdi and the Creation of a Language for Musical Theater, Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 55 n. 3 (2002), 383-41
b) In non-peer reviewed publications:
Fonti, ricezione e ruolo della committenza nell'Eliogabalo musicato da F. Cavalli, G.A. Boretti e T. Orgiani (1667-1687), in Atti del convegno La circolazione dell’opera veneziana nel Seicento, nel IV centenario della nascita di Francesco Cavalli, ed. Dinko Fabris (Naples: Editoriale Scientifica, 2006), 77-99
The Emergence of Subjectivity in Arcadelt’s Madrigals, in Pensieri per un maestro: studi in onore di Pierluigi Petrobelli, ed. Roger Parker and Stefano La Via (Turin: Edt, 2002), 35-52
c) Forthcoming:
Performing the Self: Luca Ronconi’s Staging of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Opera Quarterly, special issue on Early Opera edited by Mauro Calcagno
2. Book reviews
Colleen Reardon, Holy Concord Within Sacred Walls: Nuns and Music in Siena, 1575-1700, in Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 56 n. 3 (2003), 786-787
Massimo Ossi, Divining the Oracle: Monteverdi's Seconda Prattica, in Notes, vol. 62 n. 1 (2005), 127-130
3. Under contract
Critical edition of the opera Eliogabalo by Francesco Cavalli. Kassel: Baerenreiter, 2009
Book, editor: The Secular Music of Luca Marenzio. Series Epitome musical of the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2009
Chapter on Venetian Opera in The Cambridge Companion to Early Opera, eds. Martin Adams and Jacqueline Weber, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010
Journal issue, guest editor: Early Opera, thematic issue of Opera Quarterly, planned publication: Winter 2009. Contributions by Martha Feldman, Gary Tomlinson, Stale Wikshaland, Bonnie Gordon, Mauro Calcagno, Wendy Heller, and others
4. Completed
Book manuscript, author: From Madrigal to Opera: Performing the Self in Early Modern Italy (1540-1640)
TEACHING AND ADVISING
1. Seminars for senior music majors:
Staging Baroque Opera; Music and Poetry in Late Renaissance Italy: The Vernacular Tradition Up to Gesualdo; Monteverdi's Operas; Image, Music, Text: The Cultures of Twentieth-Century Italy; The Italian Madrigal; Claudio Monteverdi
2. Seminars for graduate students:
Opera in Venice, 1637-1678; Monteverdi's Madrigal Books; Luca Marenzio and the Madrigal; Petrarch, Petrarchism, and the Madrigal
3. Undergraduate theses supervised:
Rethinking Tradition : A Comprehensive Analysis of the Psalm Settings in Claudio Monteverdi’s Selva morale e spirituale (1641); Les fetes de l'Amour et de Bacchus between comedie-ballet and tragedie-lyrique: Deciphering Lully's first opera (Awarded Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Work); Giambattista Marino and Music; Settings of Song of Songs in 16th-century Rome; Adapting Vergil: A Comparative Analysis of Francesco Cavalli's La Didone and Domenico Mazzocchi's Dido Furens; Luca Marenzio's Settings of Mia benigna fortuna; DVD documentary on Sardinian folk music; The Societe academique des enfants d'Apollon: musicians as intellectuals in French society, ca. 1740-1870; Claudio Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna; Matthias Weckmann’s four sacred concertos of 1663: sources, structures, and influences from Italian music in KN 206 and KN 145; Performance Pitch of Sixteenth Century English Sacred Music: An Interdisciplinary Approach
4. Doctoral dissertations (reader, Harvard)
Aaron Allen: Beethoven in Italy: A Reception History of Nineteenth-Century Italian Musical Aesthetics; Matthew Peattie: Romano-Beneventan Office Music and the Transmission of the Gregorian Style in Southern Italy; Bettina Varwig: Musical Form in the Early Seventeenth Century; Jesse Rodin: Josquin and the Polyphonic Mass in Rome
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Music, Poetry and Patronage in Late Renaissance Italy: Luca Marenzio and the Madrigal, Harvard University, April 7-8, 2006.
Luca Marenzio and the Madrigal in Rome, Rome, Italy, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sept. 9-10, 2005.
(with Ellen Rosand and Giuseppe Mazzotta) International conference, Baroque Bridges: Music, Poetry, and the Visual Arts in Seventeenth-Century Italy, sponsored by the Departments of Music and Italian, Yale University, held at the Whitney Humanities Center on April 14–15, 2000
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (since 2000)
President of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society for 2004-2006
Member of the Council of the American Musicological Society, 2004-2006
Member of the AMS Committee on Honorary and Corresponding Members, 2004-2005
Member of the the Program Committee of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, Toronto, April 20-23, 2006
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, 2004-2007
Member of the Editorial Board of the early music journal Recercare (published by Libreria Musicale Italiana)
Edition of the opera Eliogabalo by Francesco Cavalli used for performances of the opera
conducted by Rene Jacobs at the Theater La Monnaie in Bruxelles, April 27-May 12, 2004, at the Innsbruck Festwochen der Alten Musik in August, and at the Aspen Festival in Colorado (U.S. premiere), August 2007
Coordinator of the international research and publication project entitled Luca Marenzio and the Madrigal (with Etienne Darbellay, Laurent Pugin, Christine Jeanneret, Paolo Cecchi, Arnaldo Morelli, Thomas Lin)