GREGORY BARNETT
Assistant Professor of Musicology

B.A. (1988) Oberlin College M.F.A. (1992), Ph. D. (1997) Princeton University 1102 Alice Pratt Brown Hall 713-348-2174 gbarnett@rice.edu

GREGORY BARNETT received the Ph.D. and M.F.A. degrees in musicology from Princeton University and the B.A. degree from Oberlin College. In the course of writing his dissertation, he was supported by a Fulbright II-E fellowship and an AMS 50 fellowship (American Musicological Society). Currently writing a book on Italian instrumental music of the late seventeenth century, he has published articles in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, the Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, the Quaderni della Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, and the 1999, 2001, and 2003 conference proceedings of the Antiquae Musicae Italicae Studiosi—Como. He is also a contributor to The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory ("Tonal Organization in Seventeenth-Century Music Theory") and The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music ("Form and Gesture: Canzona, Sonata, Concerto"). Before coming to Rice University, Dr. Barnett held positions at the University of Iowa and the University of Michigan. He has taught early opera, American music, Baroque music, and seminars on 17th- and 18th-century performance practice, the history of music theory, and J. S. Bach.