Gregory Barnett

Gregory Barnett is co-director of the Collegium Musicum and chair of musicology in the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He earned a BA at Oberlin College and a MFA and PhD at Princeton.  He is the author of Bolognese Instrumental Music, 1660-1710: Spiritual Comfort, Courtly Delight, and Commercial Triumph, published by Ashgate Press. He has also published articles in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Early Music, the Journal of Musicology, the Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, the Quaderni della Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, and the 1999, 2001, and 2003 conference proceedings of the Antiquae Musicae Italicae Studiosi—Como. He is a contributor to The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory (“Tonal Organization in Seventeenth-Century Music Theory”) and to The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music (“Form and Gesture: Canzona, Sonata, Concerto”.)

(Spring 2014)