Eric Bianchi
Associate Professor of Music
Faculty Memorial Hall 441
Fordham University-Rose Hill Campus
Bronx, NY 10458
718-817-5631
[email protected]
Office Hours: on leave AY 2020-2021
Education
B.A., Villanova University; Ph.D. Yale University
Area of Specialization
Renaissance and Baroque Music
Biography
Eric Bianchi joined the faculty of the Art History and Music Department in 2011. He specializes in music theory from 1550-1800. His research explores the intellectual and scientific contexts of music during the Early Modern period, with particular focus on the musical writings of the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher. He was a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome in 2008-2009.
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- MUSC 1100 - Music History Introduction
- HPRH 2003 - Music in Early Modernity (Honors)
- MUSC 2140/2141 - Keyboard Fundamentals: A Music-Theory Approach (+ Lab)
- MUSC 2146 - Music theory II (Diatonic Harmony)
- MUSC 3110 - Music Before 1600
- MUSC 3121 - Baroque Music: Between Ancients & Moderns
- MVST 5100 - Cultures of Music and Sound in the Medieval World (with Andrew Albin)
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"Scholars, Friends, Plagiarists": The musician as author in the seventeenth century. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 70(1), 61–128. View Article.
"Bad Latin, Bad Manners: Giovanni Battista Doni, Marin Mersenne, and Literary Style in Seventeenth-Century Music Theory." Music and Letters 96, no. 2 (2015): 167-84. doi:10.1093/ml/gcv037. View Article.
"Was Man Made for the Sabbath? Site, Space, and Identity in Jesuit Musical Life." Forthcoming [2018] in: The Grand Theatre of the World: Music, Space, and the Performance of Identity in Early Modern Rome, edited by Valeria DeLucca and Christine Jeanneret for Routledge Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera. View Book.