David Nutter
 danutter@ucdavis.edu 222B Music Building Office Hours N/A |
David Nutter studied music at the Conservatorio di Musica "Luigi Cherubini" and musicology at the Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Fine Arts, both in Florence, Italy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham in 1977. He has been a Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and has taught at the University of Kentucky and at Northwestern University; he is currently Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis, and director of the Early Music Ensemble. His articles on aspects of music in 16th century Florence, Venice, Verona, and Mantua have appeared in Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth, Studi e problemi di critica testuale, I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance, Journal of the Lute Society of America, Trasmissione e recezione delle forme di cultura musicale (IMS Bologna, 1990), Claudio Monteverdi: Studi e prospettive (1996), Giaches de Wert (1535–1596) and His Time (1999), and Cantate Domino: Musica nei secoli per il Duomo di Firenze (2001); he is editor of works by Orazio Vecchi (A-R Editions), and by Claudio Monteverdi (Fazer Editions of Early Music) and author of entries in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and the revised edition of Die Music in Geschichte und Gegenwart. A specialist in 16th-century Italian music, his research interests include secular and sacred vocal music, and music for the lute. |