Susan Parisi

UIUC Research Scholar

B.A. (music and French), Chatham College; M.M., Rosary College/Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy (flute performance); Ph.D., University of Illinois (musicology).

Susan Parisi’s research has primarily centered on music and performance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She has published on early opera; monody; Monteverdi; Frescobaldi; Francesco Rasi; spectacle and pageantry in Italian and Northern cities and courts; music and theater in Mantua’s Jewish community; French tragédie en musique; and opera buffa by Mozart’s contemporary Ferdinando Rutini. Her archival discoveries concerning Monteverdi and Frescobaldi, published in the proceedings of international conferences in which she participated, are incorporated in the composer articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Parisi edited Music in the Theater, Church, and Villa: Essays in Honor of Robert Lamar Weaver and Norma Wright Weaver (2000), and co-edited, with Colleen Reardon, Music Observed: Studies in Memory of William C. Holmes (2004), both published by Harmonie Park Press. Others of her articles and reviews appear in the Festschrift volumes for Lewis Lockwood, Warren Kirkendale, and Albert Dunning, in Journal of Musicology, Studi Musicali, Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, The Eighteenth Century, New Grove, New Grove Opera, Notes, and Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation.

Dr. Parisi has taught at the University of Illinois, Millikin University, and University of Nevada, Reno, and for a number of years was on the faculty of the University of Louisville. Her research has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, Fulbright Commission, Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation, University of Louisville, and University of Illinois Research Board, among other entities. Presently she serves as series editor of the Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music, Harmonie Park Press.