Anthony Newcomb

Professor Emeritus, Musicology

Research interests: Italian poetry, madrigals, and instrumental music (1540-1640), nineteenth-century music, musical aesthetics and criticism, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner.

Email: anewcomb@ls.berkeley.edu
Office phone: 642-2678

Compositions/Performances/Publications

The Madrigal in Ferrara 1579-97; Complete Works of Luzzasco Luzzaschi (editor); articles in Early Music, JAMS, 19th-Century Music ("The Birth of Music out of the Spirit of Drama"), Studi Musicali, Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, Annales Musicologiques, Critical Inquiry, Saggiatore musicale, Journal of Musicology, Music and Text: Critical Inquiries, 19thCentury Piano Music, Chopin Studies 2, Music and Meaning, various congress reports and Festschriften.

CV

Dent Medal, 1981. Editor, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 1986-90. Campus Distinguished Teaching Award, 1989. Dean of Artsand Humanities, College of Letters & Science, 1990-1998. Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992.