Department of Fine and Performing Arts

Faculty: Andrew Tomasello

Andrew Tomasello (PhD, Yale University) is Associate Professor of Music at Baruch College. His earliest area of scholarly interest included music and cultural life in late medieval Europe. His first publication, based on his Yale dissertation, was Music and Ritual at Papal Avignon, 1309-1403 (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983), a study of the personnel of the papal chapel, the duties of the singers and chaplains, the liturgy of the chapel, and the music manuscript Apt 16bis. He has since published articles in the Journal of Musicology, Musica Disciplina, Rivista de Musicología, Proceedings of the IMS, Colloques de Royaumont, the Progetto Notazioni (forthcoming, University of Pavia) and the Companion to French Music (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press). He has written dictionary entries for the Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart and for the Dictionary of Literary Biography and has presented papers in Spain, France, and England, as well as at conferences and colloquia in the United States. Tomasello has also rewritten the rock music chapters for editions of both the Kamien and Wright music appreciation textbooks. His current research and teaching interests lie in popular commercial music in contemporary America. Email: tomasello1@aol.com.