JoAnn Taricani

JoAnn Taricani conducts research in the areas of early music and American studies. Currently, she is working on the music in the plays and ballad operas of the British writer Henry Fielding, and is editing the music in a new three-volume critical edition of the plays published by Oxford University Press. She has published articles on Renaissance composers and libraries in Revue belge de musicologie, Notes (The Journal of the Music Library Association), and on American music in The Musical Quarterly and Pennsylvania History.

Taricani has presented her research at recent annual meetings of the American Musicological Society (Los Angeles, Atlanta, Kansas City) the Congress of the International Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, the North American British Music Studies Association, the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, the Medieval Association of the Pacific, was a plenary speaker for the national meeting of the Music Library Association, and has presented her work at many other scholarly meetings. Her research has been funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society. She also collaborated with the Folger Shakespeare Library to reconstruct the comic opera The Dragon of Wantley, which had a series of staged performances by the Folger Consort.

Taricani teaches courses in medieval and Renaissance music, and also conducts the UW’s early music ensemble, the Collegium Musicum, which performs music ranging from chant to American parlor music. She received her M.A.and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation on a music library from Renaissance Augsburg.

(For information on graduate programs in music history at the University of Washington, please write to Professor Taricani at taricani@u.washington.edu – and consult the program requirements for the M.A. and Ph.D. on the School of Music Web site. At a minimum, entering graduate students are expected to have the equivalent of the B.A. in music history, and to submit several papers in the area of music history.

Recent Ph.D. graduates are currently employed as faculty members at Florida State University, the University of Utah, and the University of Puget Sound. Recent master’s students have moved on to graduate programs at Harvard University and Yale University.)

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