William Prizer
(Emeritus)
Professor Emeritus
Renaissance & early baroque music
Music Building #1133
805-893-4367
Renaissance and Baroque music.
Author of Courtly Pastimes: The Frottole of Marchetto Cara (UMI Research Press, 1980). Recent Articles include: "Games of Venus: Secular Vocal Music in the Late Quattrocento and Early Cinquecento" (Journal of Musicology, 1991); "Music at the Court of the Sforza: The Birth and Death of a Musical Center" (Musica Disciplina, 1989); "The Frottola and the Unwritten Tradition" (Studi Musicali, 1986); "Istabella d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia as Patrons of Music: The Frottola at Mantua and Ferrara" (Journal of the American Musicological Society, 1985); and "Music and Ceremonial in the Low Countries: Philip The Fair and the Order of the Golden Fleece" (Early Music History, Cambridge University Press, 1985). “Wives and Courtesans: The Frottola in Florence.” Music Observed: Studies in Memory of William C. Holmes (2004). “Reading Carnival: The Creation of a Florentine Carnival Song.” Early Music History (2004). “Cardinals and Courtesans: Secular Music in Rome, 1500-1520.” Italy and the European Powers: The Impact of War, 1503-1530 (2006).
Dr. Prizer also has a book in progress, "Courts, Cardinals and Courtesans: Secular Music in Italy around 1500".
