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1. 1. Early Music Scholars

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   Published on: 2/22/2008   Last Visited: 2/22/2008

   Martha Feldman
   
   Martha Feldman, Professor of Music, Department of Music, University of Chicago, is a music historian specializing in 16th-century madrigals and literature, Venetian studies, courtesan cultures, 18th-century opera, Mozart, and Elizabethan music and poetry. Theoretical interests include cultural history, historiography, and cultures of the sensorium. Professor Feldman's City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice (Berkeley, 1995) earned the Bainton Prize. Her current research involves analysis of kingship, carnival, and ritual in opera seria. She serves as general editor for the Routledge Press book series in Critical and Cultural Musicology. In 2001 she was awarded the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1987; at Chicago since 1991.

2. 2. Guggenheim Foundation 2006 Fellows Page

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   Published on: 12/11/2007   Last Visited: 3/7/2008

   Martha Feldman, Professor of Music and the Humanities, University of Chicago: The castrato as myth.

3. 3. ArtScope.net News

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   Published on: 9/1/1998   Last Visited: 5/8/2003

   Martha Feldman is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Chicago. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice (1995). In her current book project she applies anthropological perspectives informed by musicology to opera seria in 18th-century Italy--focusing on how musical dramaturgy, social communication, political symbolism, and aesthetic debate operated in this genre of "serious opera" and affected festive practices integral to absolutist strategies of maintaining power.