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Massimo Ossi

Professor of Music (Musicology)
Director, Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature

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Phone:
812-855-7965
Email:
mossi@indiana.edu
Department:
Musicology
Office:
Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature
Simon Center, M325L

Education

  • Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1989
  • M.A., Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1985
  • B.S., Bachelor of Science, Old Dominion University, 1979

Biography

Massimo Ossi is professor of music in musicology and director of the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

His research interests include early seventeenth-century Italian music theory and aesthetics, Italian lyric poetry, opera, and the Italian madrigal.

He has been published in the Journal of Musicology, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Studi Musicali, the revised edition of The New Grove, and the new MGG.

Ossi is general editor for Music at the Courts of Italy (Broude), past newsletter editor for the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, and author of Divining the Oracle: Aspects of Monteverdi's Seconda Prattica (University of Chicago Press, 2003).

He has won awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Villa I Tatti (Harvard University Center For Italian Renaissance Studies), and the American Musicological Society.

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