Colleen Reardon
Professor Emerita
Musicology; Core faculty, History and Theory of Music
Music History and Music Theory
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Colleen Reardon's research centers on musical culture in Siena from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship and two grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities to pursue her work in Italian archives. She is a former President of the Society for Seventheenth-Century Music (2017–19).
Teaching
European art music 1100-1830; opera; Jane Austen and music; nuns and music, Sondheim’s musicals; film music
Current Research Projects
Musical culture in Siena, 1550-1750
Selected Publications
A Sociable Moment: Opera and Festive Culture in Baroque Siena. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Holy Concord within Sacred Walls: Nuns and Music in Siena, 1575-1700. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Agostino Agazzari and Music at Siena Cathedral, 1597-1641. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
(Co-Editor) Music Observed: Studies in Memory of William C. Holmes. Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2004.
(Co-Editor) Music franca: Essays in Honor of Frank A. D’Accone. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1996.
