Lorenzo Candelaria
Associate Professor of Musicology
Office (Primary):512-471-7131
MRH 3.742
UT Address:Butler School of Music
2406 Robert Dedman Dr., stop E3100
Austin, TX 78712-1555
Email:candelaria@utexas.eduLorenzo Candelaria (PhD Yale University) is a historian of Western European art music in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His research focuses on Catholic music in sixteenth-century Spain and its subsequent impact on devotional cultures in Latin America and the southwestern United States. Dr. Candelaria is an accomplished violinist, an active lecturer, and author. His recent books include
American Music: A Panorama (with Daniel Kingman) and
The Rosary Cantoral: Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo. He is currently writing a book entitled
Music in Mexican Catholicism.