Professor of Musicology
Luisa Nardini is Professor of Musicology at the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas, Austin and an Endowed Fellow to The Walter and Gina Ducloux Fine Arts Faculty Fellowship Endowment. Her expertise includes liturgical chant, women, digital humanities, and global studies. She is the author of Interlacing Traditions: Neo-Gregorian Chant Propers in Beneventan Manuscripts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) and of Chants, Hypertext, and Prosulas (Oxford University Press), both focusing on extended repertories of sacred music that reveal the cultural exchanges between Romans, Franks, Normans, Byzantines, Jews, and Muslims as well as the involvement of women in chant and book productions and diffusions in southern Italy. She is co-editor of Acta Musicologica and co-chair of the Skills and Resources in Early Musics Study Group of the American Musicological Society. She has received an American Council for Learned Societies fellowship, the Gladiatore d’oro, the Kenneth Levy book subvention for Outstanding Publications in Early Music, and an inaugural research fellowship at the Harry Ransom Centre among many other recognitions. She is co-editing with Adoyo Catherine a textbook on Global Early Musics (ca. 700-1500).
Chant, Hypertexts, and Prosulas: Re-texting the Proper of the Mass in Beneventan Manuscripts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2021).
Interlacing Traditions: Neo-Gregorian Mass Proper Chants in Beneventan Manuscripts (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies—University of Toronto Press, 2016).
Musica: Manuale disciplinare completo per le prove scritte, orali e pratiche dei concorsi a cattedra, co-authored with Claudia Calì and Guido Olivieri, (Naples: Edizioni Simone, 2020).
Laus musicae: Arte, scienza e prassi del canto liturgico e devozionale meridionale. Proceedings of the International conference, Benevento, May 2019, co-edited with Paolo Scarnecchia, Vox Antiqua (forthcoming).
Intersecting Practices in the Production of Sacred Music, ca. 1400–1650: Proceedings of the Symposium of Studies, Austin, TX, May 2015, ed. in Journal of the Alamire Foundation 8/2 (2016).
“Italy,” in eds. Daniel DiCenso and Andrew Irving, Medieval Latin Liturgy: A Research Guide (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming).
“Neo-Gregorian Chant in the Beneventan Zone: Some Case Studies,” in Companion to the Beneventan Zone, eds. Richard Gyug and Andrew Irving (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming).
“Medieval Chant and Digital Technology: A Website for Liturgical Prosulas,” Pro Musica Sacra: Journal of the Pontifical University John Paul II in Krakow.
“Reuniting Fragments and Reconsidering the Scribal History of the Beneventan Zone,” in eds. Elsa De Luca, Jean-François Goudesenne, and Ivan Moody, Scriptor, Cantor, et Notator: The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts (Leiden: Brepols, forthcoming).
“Il canto neo-gregoriano del Proprium Missae nei manoscritti beneventani,” in Laus musicae: Arte, scienza e prassi del canto liturgico e devozionale meridionale: Atti della conferenza internazionale, Benevento, maggio 2019, eds. Luisa Nardini and Paolo Scarnecchia, Vox Antiqua (forthcoming), 187-206.
“Renewal and Heritage in Roman Chant Manuscripts,” in Urban Developments of Late Antique and Medieval Rome: Revising the Narrative of Renewal, eds. Gregor Kalas and Ann van Dijk (Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, in press), 277-296.
“The Mass of the Dead in Beneventan Manuscripts,” in Proceedings of the 17th Meeting of the International Musicological Society - Cantus Planus Study Group, Venice (Italy), July-August 2014 (Venice: Fondazione Levi, 2021), 515-28.
“Chant and Hypertexts,” in Proceedings of the Digital Frontiers Conference, Digital Frontiers (2019).
“Regional Musical Culture in the Mass Chants of MC318 Second Tonary,” in Sciences du Quadrivium au Mont-Cassin: Regards croisées sur le manuscrit Montecassino, Arch. dell'Abbazia 318, eds. Isabelle Draelants and Laura Albiero (Turnhout: Brepols, “Bibliologia,” 2018), 217-229.
“I due tonari a confronto,” in Montecassino, Archivio dell'Abbazia, cod. 318: Facsimile e commentarii, eds. Mariano Dall'Omo e Nicola Tangari, Bibliotheca Mediaevalis, IV; Archivio Storico di Montecassino, facsimili e commentari, 3 (Lucca: LIM, 2018), lxxi-lxxxii.
“Appendice II: Indici del primo e del secondo tonario,” in collaboration with Bibiana Vergine, in Montecassino, Archivio dell'Abbazia, cod. 318: Facsimile e commentarii, eds. Mariano Dall'Omo e Nicola Tangari, Bibliotheca Mediaevalis, IV; Archivio Storico di Montecassino, facsimili e commentari, 3 (Lucca: LIM, 2018), clxxxi-ccxiv.
“In the Quest of Gallican Remnants in Gregorian Manuscripts,” in The Oxford Handbook of Music and Censorship, ed. Patricia Hall (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 7-38.
“Fitting New Texts into Old Melodies: The Diffusion and Technique of Prosulas for Tracts and Graduals,” in Chant, Liturgy, and the Inheritance of Rome: Essays in Honour of Joseph Dyer, eds. Daniel DiCenso and Rebecca Maloy (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2017), 245-268.
“The Circulation of Gregorian Chant and the Cult of St. Michael in Medieval Southern Italy,” in The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities, eds. Suzel Reily and Jonathan Dueck (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 581-605.
“Allusioni liturgico-musicali in Dante attraverso un'analisi del manoscritto 13 dell'Harry Ransom Center," in Nel 750° anniversario della nascita di Dante Alighieri: Letteratura e Musica del Duecento e del Trecento. Atti del Convegno Internazionale Certaldo Alto, 17-18 Dicembre 2015, eds. Paola Benigni, Stefano Campagnolo, Rino Caputo, Stefania Cori, Agostino Ziino (Gesualdo: Fondazione Carlo Gesualdo, “Studi e Testi, 1,” 2016), 133-141.
“Introduction,” Intersecting Practices in the Production of Sacred Music, ca. 1400–1650: Proceedings of the Symposium held in Austin, TX, May 2015, ed. Luisa Nardini, Journal of the Alamire Foundation 8/2 (2016): 9-10.
MUS 313M
History of Western Music I
MUS 379K
Italian Trecento Music
MUS 379K
Medievalism in the 20th Century
MUS 379K
Music and Medievalism
MUS 379K
Plainchant
MUS 379K/387
Sacred Polyphony
MUS 379K
Singing Chant
MUS 380
Global Music Traditions ca. 700-1400
MUS 380.1
Advanced Studies in the History of Music: Medieval
MUS 381
Reference and Research Materials in Music
MUS 381J
Foundations of Musicology
MUS 385J
Chant Hypertexts
MUS 385J
Late Medieval Chants
MUS 385J
Latin Songs
MUS 385J
Medieval Music and Historical Imagination
MUS 385J
Music Editing and Digital Humanities
MUS 385J
Post-Gregorian Chant
MUS 385K
Notational Systems before 1300
MUS 386/387
Chant and Digital Humanities
MUS 386/387
Chant and Polyphony
MUS 387L/387
The Polyphonic Mass
MUS 398T
Supervised Teaching in Music
TC 302
Plan II Honors Program Signature Course: Unarchiving the Arts
Mus 385J
The Global Turn in Music Studies
Contact Information
Email address
nardini@
Phone
512.232.2069
Campus location
MRH 3.128
Teaching Areas
Musicology
Research Areas
Medieval Music
Global Studies
Digital Humanities
Women Studies
Education
L.M.S. Post-doctoral License in Mediaeval Studies
University of Toronto,
Doctor of Philosophy
Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” di Roma (Italy)
Laurea (BA/MA) Summa cum laude
Università degli Studi di Napoli (Italy)
Diploma in Music Education
Conservatorio di Musica of Benevento (Italy)
Diploma (DMA) in Piano Performance,
Conservatorio di Musica of Benevento (Italy)