Music Department Faculty
Tim Carter
David G. Grey Distinguished Professor
Office: 105B Hill Hall
Email: cartert@email.unc.edu
Phone: 919-962-1039
Selected Publications
(excludes reviews, dictionary entries, journalism, etc.):
Books and editions
Forthcoming Ed. Kurt Weill: “Johnny Johnson,” “The Kurt Weill Complete Edition” (New York: Kurt Weill Foundation for Music)
2007 “Oklahoma!” The Making of an American Musical. New Haven and London: Yale University Press
2005 Ed. with J. Butt, The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music, ed. Tim Carter & John Butt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [2005]
2002 Monteverdi’s Musical Theatre. New Haven and London: Yale University Press; ISBN 0–300–09676–3; pp. x + 326
2000 Monteverdi and his Contemporaries. “Variorum Collected Studies Series,” CS690. Aldershot: Ashgate; ISBN 0–86078–823–7; pp. xii + 270. (Includes 12 essays by TC published in scholarly journals and edited volumes, 1987–97.)
2000 Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence. “Variorum Collected Studies Series,” CS682. Aldershot: Ashgate; ISBN 0–86078–817–2; pp. xii + 282. (Includes 13 essays by TC published in scholarly journals and edited volumes, 1979–96.)
1995 Ed. with I. Fenlon,‘Con che soavità’: Essays in Italian Baroque Opera, Song, and Dance, 1580–1740. Oxford: Clarendon Press; ISBN 0–19–816370–3; pp. x + 336
1994 Trans., Composing Opera: from “Dafne” to “Ulisse errante”. “Practica musica,” 2. Kraków: Musica Iagellonica; ISBN 83–7099–010–X; pp. 200
1993 Trans., Polemics on the “Musica moderna”: Agostino Agazzari, “La musica ecclesiastica”; Marco Scacchi, “Breve discorso sopra la musica moderna”. “Practica musica,” 1. Kraków: Musica Iagellonica; ISBN 83–7099–004–5; pp. 72
1992 Music in Late Renaissance & Early Baroque Italy. London: Batsford (Portland, OR, Amadeus Press); ISBN 0–7134–6730–4; pp. 288
1989 Jacopo Peri (1561–1633): His Life and Works. “Outstanding Dissertations in Music from British Universities.” New York & London: Garland; ISBN 0–8240–2346–3; pp. xiii + 519
1987 W.A. Mozart: “Le nozze di Figaro”. “Cambridge Opera Handbooks.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (repr. 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1998); ISBN 0–521–3027–6/0–521–31606–5; pp. xii + 180
1985 Ed., Jacopo Peri: “Le varie musiche” and Other Songs. “Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era,” 50. Madison: A-R Editions; pp. xli + 112 (recorded by Ellen Hargis, Harmonia Mundi, [CD] HMU907234 [1999])
Essays and articles from 1999
Forthcoming “The Seventeenth Century: an Overview.” In Colin Lawson and Robin Stowell (eds.), The Cambridge History of Musical Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Forthcoming “Another Monteverdi Problem (and Why It Still Matters).” In Claire Fontijn (ed.), Liber amicorum Alexander Silbiger. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press
Forthcoming “Improvised Counterpoint in Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers.” In Gioia Filocamo and M. Jennifer Bloxam (eds.), ‘Uno gentile et subtile ingenio’: Studies in Renaissance Music in Honour of Bonnie Blackburn. Turnout, Brepols
Forthcoming “‘…e poi le parole’: Towards a History of the Libretto.” In Martin Adams (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Early Opera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
2007 “Musical Sources,” “The Venetian Madrigals,” and “Intermedio IV: Lamento della ninfa (1638).” In John Whenham and Richard Wistreich (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 20–30, 179–94, 195–98
2006 “Tutto ’l dí piango…: Petrarch and the ‘New Music’ in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy.’ In Loredana Chines (ed.), Il Petrarchismo: un modello di poesia per l’Europa. Rome: Bulzoni, vol. 1, pp. 391–404
2006 “The Concept of the Baroque,” “Italy, iii; 1600–1640.” In James Haar (ed.), European Music 1520–1640, ‘Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music’, 5. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, pp. 38–57, 91–100
2004 “L’editoria musicale tra Cinque e Seicento.” In Carlo Fiore (ed.), Il libro di musica: per una storia delle fonti musicali in Europa, “De charta,” 7. Palermo: L’Epos, pp. 137–62
2004 “In the Workshop of Rodgers and Hammerstein: New Light on Oklahoma!.” In C. Reardon and S. Parisi (eds), Music Observed: Studies in Memory of William C. Holmes. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, pp. 55–64
2004 “Metrical Equivalence in Beethoven: Some Problems in Performance and Analysis.” Beethoven Forum 11: 127–61
2004 “Che cosa è amor? Music and Love in Mozart’s Così fan tutte.” In B. Richardson et al. ((eds.), Theatre, Opera, and Performance in Italy from the Fifteenth Century to the Present: Essays in Honour of Richard Andrews. ‘Occasional Papers of the Society for Italian Studies’, 6. Leeds: Society for Italian Studies, pp. 155–72
2003 With Erik Levi, “The History of the Orchestra.”. In C. Lawson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–21
2003 “Rediscovering Il rapimento di Cefalo.” Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 9; <http://sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu/jscm/v9no1.html>
2002 “Two Monteverdi Problems, and Why They Matter.” Journal of Musicology 19: 417–33
2002 “The Sound of Silence: Models for an Urban Musicology.” In C. Kaden and V. Kalisch (eds), Musik und Urbanität: Arbeitstagung der Fachgruppe Soziologie und Sozialgeschichte der Musik in Schmökwitz/Berlin vom 26. bis 28. November 1999. Essen: Verlag Blaue Eule, pp. 13–23 (revised in Urban History 29 (2002): 8–18)
2002 “The Composer as Theorist? Genus and Genre in Monteverdi’s Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.” In T. J. Mathiesen and A. Giger (eds), Music in the Mirror: Reflections on the History of Music Theory and Literature for the Twenty-first Century. “Publications of the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature,” 3. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 77–116
2002 “An American in…?” [review-article of Susan McClary, Conventional Wisdom: the Content of Musical Form (2000)], Music & Letters 83: 274–8
2001 “Crossing the Boundaries: Sacred, Civic and Ceremonial Space in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Florence.” In P. Gargiulo et al (eds), Atti del VII centenario del Duomo di Firenze, iii: “Cantate domino”: musica nei secoli per il Duomo di Firenze; atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Firenze, 23–25 maggio 1997). Florence: Edizioni Firenze, pp. 139–46
2000 “Mozart in a ‘Land without Music’: Henry Bishop’s The Marriage of Figaro.” In K. Eberl and W. Ruf (eds), Musik Konzepte—Konzepte der Musikwissenchaft: Bericht über den Internationalen Kongress der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Halle (Saale) 1998. 2 vols, Kassel etc.: Bärenreiter, i: 196–206
2000 “Per cagione di bene, et giustamente vivere: Some Thoughts on the Musical Patronage of Giovanni de’ Bardi.” In P. Gargiulo, A. Magini, and S. Toussaint (eds), Neoplatonismo, musica, letteratura nel Rinascimento: I Bardi di Vernio e l’Accademia della Crusca; atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Firenze-Vernio, 25–26 settembre 1998. “Cahiers di «Accademia».” Paris: Société Marsile Ficin, pp. 137–46
2000 “Printing the ‘New Music’.” In K. van Orden (ed.), Music and the Cultures of Print. New York and London: Garland, pp. 3–37
1999 “New Light on Monteverdi’s Ballo delle ingrate (Mantua, 1608).” Il saggiatore musicale 6: 63–90
1999 “Singing Orfeo: on the Performers of Monteverdi’s First Opera.” Recercare 11: 75–118
1999 “Finding a Voice: Vittoria Archilei and the Florentine ‘New Music’.” In L. Hutson (ed.), Feminism and Renaissance Studies. “Oxford Readings in Feminism.” Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 450–67
1999 “Lamenting Ariadne?” Early Music 27: 395–405
Recent Courses
Undergraduate: Studies in Music History, 1650-1850; Fundamentals of Music I; Theory-Musicianship II; The Mozart/Da Ponte Operas; The American Musical, 1927-1952
Graduate: Monteverdi's Operas; From Renaissance to Baroque-Issues in Style and Expression; The Mozart/Da Ponte Operas; What's in a Key?-Modal Types and Tonal Practices in Music of the Classic Era
Updated 8/22/2008