Music Department Faculty
John L. Nádas
Distinguished Professor
Office: 01 Hill Hall Annex
Email: jancsi@email.unc.edu
Phone: 919-962-8773
John L. Nádas (Gerhard L. Weinberg Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences) was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He received a B.F.A. in music from Tulane University in 1968; an M.A. from Villa Schifanoia (Florence, Italy) in 1975; and a Ph.D. in musicology from New York University in 1985 (Dissertation: "The Transmission of Trecento Secular Polyphony: Manuscript Production and Scribal Practices in Italy at the End of the Middle Ages," under the direction of Edward Roesner). He taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1982-83 before joining the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a fellow of the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Florence, Italy, 1987-88). He was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University during fall 1998. Professor Nádas is presently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Musicology and a member of the editorial boards of Recercare and the series "Ars Nova: Collana di Riproduzioni Fotografiche delle Fonti Italiane del Tre-Quattrocento" (Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana). His interests include the music of 14th- and 15th-century France and Italy, Monteverdi, and 19th-century Italian opera.
Selected Publications:
General Editor with Margaret Bent of the series Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Music in Facsimile (The University of Chicago Press). Author of vol. II: Manuscript Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568 [forthcoming].
Manuscript Florence, San Lorenzo 2211: Introductory Study and Facsimile Edition, for the series "Ars Nova: Collana di riproduzioni fotografiche delle fonti italiane del Tre-Quattrocento" (Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana) [forthcoming].
Co-author of "Two Newly Discovered Leaves of the Lucca Codex," Studi Musicali 34 (2005).
Co-author of "Zacara e i suoi colleghi italiani nella cappella papale," in Antonio Zacara da Teramo e il suo tempo, ed., Francesco Zimei (Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2005).
Co-editor of Western Plainchant in the First Millennium: Studies in the Medieval Liturgy and its Music (Ashgate, 2003).
"The Secular Courts of Europe and their Relations with the Papal Chapels During the Period of the Great Schism (1378-1417)," in Studi in onore di Agostino Ziino in occasione del suo 65º compleanno, ed. Bianca Maria Antolini, Teresa M. Gialdroni, Annunziato Pugliese (Lucca, Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2003).
Contributor to new edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
"A Cautious Reading of Simone Prodenzani's Il Sollazo e il Saporetto," Recercare, 10 [In Memoria di Nino Pirrotta] (1999).
Co-author of "The Papal Chapels and Italian Sources of Polyphony During the Great Schism," in Papal Music and Musicians in Medieval and Renaissance Rome, ed. Richard Sherr (Oxford University Press, 1998).
Co-author of "Verso uno stile 'internazionale' della musica nelle capelle papali durante il Grande Scisma (1378-1417): il caso di Johannes Ciconia da Liège," in Capellae Apostolicae Sixtinaeque Collectanea Acta Monumenta III (1994).
Co-author of Il Codice Squarcialupi (Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1993).
"Manuscript San Lorenzo 2211: Some Further Observations," L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento, 6 (Certaldo, 1992).
"Song Collections in Late-Medieval Florence," in Atti del XIV Congresso della Società Internazionale di Musicologia, "Trasmissione e recezione delle forme di cultura musicale, Bologna, 27 August - 1 September 1987" (Torino, 1991).
Co-author of The Lucca Codex (Codice Mancini): Introductory Study and Facsimile Edition (Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1990).
"The Songs of Don Paolo Tenorista: The Manuscript Tradition," in In Cantu et in Sermone: a Nino Pirrotta nel suo 80° compleanno, Italian Medieval and Renaissance Studies 1 (University of Western Australia, Nedlands), ed. Fabrizio della Seta and Franco Piperno (Florence: Olschki, 1989).
Co-author of "Magister Dominus Paulus Abbas de Florentia: New Documentary Evidence," Musica Disciplina, 41 (1988).
"Pre-1869 Revisions of La Forza del destino," Verdi Newsletter, 15 (1988).
"The Reina Codex Revisited," in Essays in Paper Analysis, ed. Stephen Spector (Washington: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1987).
"New Light on Magister Antonius Dictus Zacharias de Teramo," Studi Musicali, 15 (1986), 167-82; 16 (1987).
Appendix - Documents and Letters [prepared in conjunction with David Rosen and Andrew Porter], The Macbeth Sourcebook (W. W. Norton, 1984).
"A Newly Discovered Trecento Fragment: Scribal Concordances in Late-Medieval Florentine Manuscripts," Early Music History, 3 (1983).
"The Structure of Manuscript Panciatichi 26 and the Transmission of Trecento Polyphony," Journal of the American Musicological Society, 34 (1981).