School of Music
Michael Markham

Michael Markham
Musicology

Michael.Markham@fredonia.edu

Mason Hall 3149
716-673-4873 phone
716-673-3154 fax

Bio:

Michael Markham's research is on the music of the early Italian Baroque.  He joins SUNY Fredonia from Stanford University where he was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and visiting lecturer in Music and Cultural History from 2006-2008.  He received his B.Mus in classical guitar and an M.M. in Musicology from The Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University.

In 2001 he received his M.A.  and in 2006 his Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California ­ Berkeley. His dissertation is entitled The Heritage of Campaspe: Oral Tradition and Giulio Caccini's "Le nuove musiche" (1602). It touches on theories of performance and space in early 17th-Century Italy and the problem of text and Italian solo song in the Renaissance. His work on Monteverdi, on Baroque song, and on Bach has appeared or is forthcoming in the Cambridge Opera Journal, Opera Quarterly, Repercussions, and Seventeenth-Century Music.