Claude V. Palisca

Claude Victor Palisca (24 November 1921 – 11 January 2001) was an American musicologist.

Life and career

Palisca was born in

From 1970 to 1972, Palisca was president of the American Musicological Society. In addition to directing the Yale music curriculum, he consulted for the U.S. Office of Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities.^[1][2]

His musicological writings included numerous publications in the academic musical press and a number of books, some co-authored with

Claude V. Palisca has long been acknowledged as a leading authority on Italian music of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. These nineteen essays, originally published between 1956 and 1989, draw together a body of significant research into Italian music and music theory, and make readily available papers widely scattered and most now out-of-print. They have further been selected because of their relevance to current research, as evidenced by their continued citation in publications and dissertations.^[3]

Selected bibliography

• Baroque Music, Prentice-Hall 1968 (1991 third ed.)
  ISBN 0-13-058496-7
• A History of Western Music, W W Norton & Co; 7Rev Ed edition (10 Aug 2005)
  ISBN 0-393-97991-1
• Studies in the History of Italian Music and Music Theory, Clarendon Press, March 1994,
  ISBN 978-0-19-816167-7
• Aria Types in the Earliest Operas, Palisca's last completed paper for the Journal of 17th Century Music.
• Humanism in Italian Renaissance Musical Thought, Yale University 1985
  ISBN 0-300-03302-8
• —— (2001). "Guido of Arezzo". In Pesce, Dolores (ed.).
  ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membership
  required)
• —— (2001). "Johannes Cotto".
  ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membership
  required)