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Margaret Kimiko Murata

Professor, Music
Claire Trevor School of the Arts

A.B., The University of Chicago, 1967, Music


Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 1975, Music


M.A., The University of Chicago, 1971, Music

Phone: (949) 824-4916
Fax: (949) 824-4914
Email: mkmurata@uci.edu

University of California
Dept of Music
University of California, Irvine
Mail Code: 2775
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests
Music history, Italian Baroque, opera, cantata, performance practice, arie antiche
   
Academic
Distinctions
Vice-president, American Musicological Society (1994-96)
President, Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (2000-03)
   
Research
Abstract
Italian vocal music, performers, sources, performance practice ca. 1600-1680; opera and theater; theory of performance; opera in Rome; the Barberini manuscripts of music.
   
Publications Selected:
   
  Operas for the Papal Court, 1631-1668 (Ann Arbor 1981)
   
  Source Readings in Music History: The Baroque, 2d ed. (New York 1998)
   
  “Image and Eloquence: Secular Song” in
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music, T. Carter and J. Butt, eds.
(Cambridge 2005)

“A Topography of the Barberini Music Manuscripts” in I Barberini e la cultura europea del Seicento, Fr. Solinas, L. Mochi Onori, S. Schütze, eds. (Rome [2007])
   
  "Scylla and Charybdis, or Steering between Form and Social Context in Seventeenth-Century Music," in Explorations in Music, the Arts, and Ideas, ed. E. Narmour and R. Solie (New York 1988)
   
Professional
Societies
American Musicological Society
Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
International Musicological Society
Società Italiana di Musicologia
   
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Last updated 12/15/2006