Scholars of NMS

Dr. Robert Gjerdingen
Professor of Music
Northwestern University, School of Music

Professor of Music at The School of Music, Northwestern University, Gjerdingen was trained at the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D, 1984) under Leonard B. Meyer, Eugene Narmour, and Eugene K. Wolf. He is the author of Music in the Galant Style: Being an Essay on Various Schemata Characteristic of Eighteenth-Century Music for Courtly Chambers, Chapels, and Theaters, Including Tasteful Passages of Music Drawn from Most Excellent Chapel Masters in the Employ of Noble and Noteworthy Personages, Said Music All Collected for the Reader’s Delectation on the World Wide Web (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), A Classic Turn of Phrase: Music and the Psychology of Convention (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988), and translator of Studies on the Origin of Harmonic Tonality [an English translation of Carl Dahlhaus's Untersuchungen über die Entstehung der harmonischen Tonalität ] (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990). His current research focuses on the methods for training composers in the conservatories of Naples, Italy, during the eighteenth century.

Article: Partimenti: Tools in Developing Musical Memory

Professor Gjerdingen is the editor for the Monuments of Partimenti website project.

Dr. Guido Olivieri
Musicologist
University of Texas, Butler School of Music

Guido Olivieri is a musicologist at the Butler School of Music of The University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches courses on eighteenth-century history and performance practice, and directs the Early Music Ensemble.

His research centers on problems of performance practice, aspects of musical patronage, and the reconstruction of the musical and cultural relationships between Naples and other European capitals. He completed his Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara with a dissertation that has given new impulse to the study of eighteenth-century string sonata in Naples.

Dr. Olivieri has presented papers at several international conferences and published articles and reviews on Baroque instrumental music -- as well as on the music of Gaetano Donizetti and Luciano Berio -- in collective volumes and scholarly journals (Notes, Analecta Musicologica, Studi Musicali, Pergolesi Studies). He has also contributed to the revised editions of The New Grove Dictionary of Music, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Among his most recent essays is "Cello Teaching and Playing in Naples in the Early Eighteenth Century: Francesco Paolo Supriani's 'Principij da imparare a suonare il violoncello'," in Performance Practice: Issues and Approaches (Steglein, 2009)

A Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool (UK), at The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, and at the University of Michigan, Dr. Olivieri has studied with Michael Talbot, Neal Zaslaw, William Prizer, and Alejandro Planchart, among others.

Dr. Olivieri holds also a Diploma in violin (Conservatory of Salerno – Italy, 1994) and has devoted his attention to the study of the Baroque violin repertory, performing with several ensembles in Europe and the U.S.
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