Faculty Member, Music
Boston University, Musicology and Ethnomusicology
Harvard College Fellow
About
Evan MacCarthy specializes in the history and theory of music in fifteenth-century Italy. He is currently writing an interdisciplinary book on music education in early modern Italy, focusing on the different spheres of humanistic and scholastic learning at Italian courts, cathedrals, and universities. He received his BA in classics and music from the College of the Holy Cross and in the spring of 2007 he was a Reader in Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy. In 2010, he received his PhD in historical musicology for a dissertation on music and intellectual life in fifteenth-century Ferrara. His research interests also include Old Roman and Ambrosian chant, the motets of Orlando di Lasso, the music of seventeenth-century north Germany, and the connections between music and classical philology and mythology, especially in late nineteenth-century America. He co-edited with Edward Roesner the seventh and final volume of the Magnus Liber Organi edition and has several articles in press on different aspects of late medieval music and music theory, many of which explore intersections of music with other areas of history, including political diplomacy, legal rhetoric, and intellectual history. He has also served on the music faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University, and presently sings as bass section-leader with the Schola Cantorum of the College of the Holy Cross.
