Office (Primary):
512-232-2069
MBE 3.602

UT Address:
The University of Texas at Austin
School of Music

Austin, TX 78712

Email:
nardini@mail.utexas.edu

Luisa Nardini (Ph.D. in Musicology, Università degli Studi “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy; LMS-Postdoctoral License in Mediaeval Studies, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada) is a medievalist with special interests in the later development of chant repertories in Western Europe. Her works on Gregorian chant, tropes, tonaries, music and visual art, manuscript studies, and oral and written transmission of liturgical chant had been presented at scholarly forums in North America and Europe. She has essays and reviews in the Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, Samnium, Nicolaus, Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana, Studia Musicologica, and in miscellaneous volumes. Her current book project, titled Music from the South: The Non-Standard Mass Proper Items in Beneventan Manuscripts, focuses on an extended repertory of liturgical music composed in southern Italy after the diffusion of Gregorian chant (8th-9th cent.). This repertory, which amounts to some two hundred melodies, reflects the multi-cultural context of medieval southern Italy and sheds new light on some of the most controversial problems regarding the earliest history of western music and the interrelationships between Roman, Gallican, Byzantine, and Beneventan chants.

Upon completion of her doctorate, Dr. Nardini was appointed as a lecturer in Musicology at the University of California Santa Barbara, where she had also been a research scholar for several years. The first musicologist to be awarded an A.W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, she has been an Associate Research Scholar at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University and the recipient of several research grants from the Universities of Naples and Rome, Italy.