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Colleen Reardon Professor of Music and Associate Dean of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts (Musicology) Office: Mesa Arts Building Phone: 949-824-6615 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Colleen Reardon's research centers on music in Siena from the late sixteenth through the early eighteenth centuries. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to pursue her work in Italian archives.

Her two monographs investigate different aspects of musical culture in Siena. Agostino Agazzari and Music at Siena Cathedral examines the life and works of the city's most famous composer and performance practice at the Duomo during the transition from the late Renaissance to the early Baroque. Holy Concord within Sacred Walls explores musical traditions in Sienese convents from after the Council of Trent to the end of the seventeenth century and addresses questions of symbolism and meaning in nuns' music both inside and outside the cloister.

She currently serves as Vice-President of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (2003-06) and as a member of the Lewis Lockwood Award Committee for the American Musicological Society (2005-06).

Prior to her appointment as Professor in the Music Department and Associate Dean of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine, she taught at Western Kentucky University and of the State University of New York, Binghamton.

Current Research Projects

Opera and oratorio in Siena under the last of the Medici (1669-1731); Stephen Sondheim's musical theater

Teaching

European art music 1100-1830; Stephen Sondheim’s musicals; opera

Selected Publications

Books

Holy Concord within Sacred Walls: Nuns and Music in Siena, 1575-1700. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Agostino Agazzari and Music at Siena Cathedral, 1597-1641. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

(Co-Editor) Music Observed: Studies in Memory of William C. Holmes. Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2004.

Co-Editor) Musica franca: Essays in Honor of Frank A. D'Accone. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1996.

Articles

"The Good Mother, the Reluctant Daughter, and the Convent: A Case of Musical Persuasion." In Many-headed Melodies: Musical Voices of Early Modern Women, edited by Thomasin LaMay, 271-86. Ashgate, 2005.

"The 1669 Sienese Production of Cesti's L'Argia." In Music Observed: Studies in Memory of William C. Holmes, edited by Colleen Reardon and Susan Parisi, 417-28.Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2004.

"Veni sponsa Christi: Investiture, Profession and Consecration Ceremonies in Sienese Convents." Musica Disciplina 50 (1996): 271-97.

"Music as Leitmotif in Lousia May Alcott’s Little Women." Children's Literature 24 (1996): 74-85.

"Insegniar la zolfa ai gittatelli: Music and Teaching at Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, During the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries." In Musica franca: Essays in Honor of Frank D'Accone, edited by Irene Alm, Alyson McLamore, and Colleen Reardon, 119-38. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1996.

"Siena, Umanesimo e le prime composizioni sacre di Agostino Agazzari." In Umanesimo a Siena. Letteratura, arti figurative, musica. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Siena, 5-8 giugno 1991, edited by Elisabetta Cioni and Daniela Fausti, 481-9. Siena, 1994.

"Music and Musicians at Santa Maria di Provenzano, Siena, 1595-1640." The Journal of Musicology 11 (1993), 106-32.

"Two Parody Magnificats on Palestrina's Vestiva i colli." Studi musicali 15 (1986): 67-99.