Faculty Guide

Title

Assistant Professor of Music

Music

Expertise

Music and poetry of the late Renaissance. The sixteenth-century Italian madrigal. Romantic music. Popular music. Music Analysis.

Profile

    An assistant professor of musicology at Brandeis since Fall 2008, Seth Coluzzi is a scholar of the music and culture of late-Renaissance Italy. Focusing on the musical settings of poet Battista Guarini's play Il pastor fido by composers such as Marenzio, Monteverdi, and Wert, Seth's research examines issues of interpretation, analysis, mode, and identity in the Italian madrigal. Seth received his doctorate in 2007 from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where his dissertation, "Structure and Interpretation in Luca Marenzio's Settings of Il pastor fido," was awarded the Glen Haydon Award for an Outstanding Dissertation in Musicology. In 2007, Seth served as an academic fellow at the Australian National University in Australia's capital city, Canberra.

    In addition to the Italian Renaissance, Seth's research interests include the symphony and chamber music of the nineteenth century and popular music, particularly the works of 1960s artists such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Johnny Cash.

    Alongside his scholarly work, Seth is a singer-songwriter and a performer of ballet and Javanese gamelan.

Awards and Honors

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects (2012)

Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund (2011)

Ahmanson Fellow, Villa I Tatti, Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2010)

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund (2009)

Glen Haydon Award for an Outstanding Dissertation in Musicology (2007)

Rey M. Longyear Prize for Outstanding Student Paper (2007)

Phi Beta Kappa Society, University of Rochester (1998)

UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School Merit Based Assistantship (1998)

Courses Taught

MUS	1a	Introduction to Music
MUS	101a	Theory and Musicianship I: Part 1
MUS	101b	Theory and Musicianship I: Part 2
MUS	131a	History of Music I: Ancient through Early Baroque
MUS	133a	Classic and Romantic Music
MUS	171a	Form and Analysis
MUS	185a	Proseminar in Music of the Renaissance
MUS	212a	Seminar: Analyzing Early Music (1300-1600)
MUS	213b	Seminar in Music of the Renaissance

Scholarship

Coluzzi, Seth J.. "“Tirsi mio, caro Tirsi: Il pastor fido and the Roman Madrigal.”." Epitome musical (2013): 51–73. (forthcoming)

Coluzzi, Seth J.. Tirsi mio, caro Tirsi: Il pastor fido and the Roman Madrigal. Proc. of Music, Poetry, and Patronage in Late Renaissance Italy: Luca Marenzio and the Madrigal; International Conference. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA: Brepols, 2009. (forthcoming)

Coluzzi, Seth J.. "Review of Andrew Taylor, The Songs and Travels of a Tudor Minstrel: Richard Sheale of Tamworth (Suffolk, UK: York Medieval Press, 2012)." by Andrew Taylor. Early Music America 2013

Coluzzi, Seth J.. "“Black Sheep: The Phrygian Mode and a Misplaced Madrigal in Marenzio’s Seventh Book (1595)"." Journal of Musicology 30. 2 (2013): 129–79.

Coluzzi, Seth J.. "“‘Se vedesti qui dentro’: Monteverdi’s O Mirtillo, Mirtillo anima mia and Artusi’s Offense"." Music and Letters (2013).

Coluzzi, Seth J. "Review of Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010)." by Deborah Howard and Laura Moretti. Medievalia et Humanistica vol. 37 2012

Coluzzi, Seth J.. "“Music for Missing Verses in the 1598 Mantuan Performance of Guarini's Il pastor fido”." Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Washington, DC. 2012.

Coluzzi, Seth J.. "Speaking In (and Out of) Mode: Amarilli's Voice in Luca Marenzio's 'O Mirtillo, Mirtillo, anima mia'." Winter Meeting of the American Musicological Society, New England Chapter, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. January 31, 2009.

Coluzzi, Seth J.. "Suggestions of a New Chronology for the Early Pastor fido Madrigal." Medieval and Renaissance Music, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales. July 2008.

Coluzzi, Seth J.. "Early Music for Modern Ears: The Study of a Distant Musical Culture." guest seminar. Canberra School of Music, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Coluzzi, Seth J.. "Luca Marenzio and the Pastor fido Madrigal." American Musicological Society, South-Central Chapter, Annual Meeting, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. March 2007.

Coluzzi, Seth J.. "`Solo e pensoso¿?: Rendering the Lyric `Io¿ in the Italian Madrigal." Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida. March 2007.

Coluzzi, Seth J.. "Illuminating the Middleground in Late-Renaissance Polyphony." Music Theory Southeast Annual Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. March 2006.

Coluzzi, Seth J.. "Tirsi mio, caro Tirsi: Il pastor fido and the Roman Madrigal." Music, Poetry, and Patronage in Late Renaissance Italy: Luca Marenzio and the Madrigal, International Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. April 2006.

Coluzzi, Seth J.. "The Black Sheep: Finding a Normative Structural Model for the Phrygian Mode." American Musicological Society, Southeast Chapter, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC. October 2005.