Faculty Profile: Sean Gallagher
Position: Visiting Associate Professor of Music (Musicology and Ethnomusicology)
Sean Gallagher holds BMus and MMus degrees in piano from the Peabody Conservatory, where he was a student of Leon Fleisher, and a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard. He has taught previously at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard, and in 2007 was Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti in Florence.
His research focuses on late medieval and renaissance music, with particular emphasis on France, Italy, and the Low Countries in the fifteenth century. Other research interests include aesthetics, eighteenth-century opera, and nineteenth-century chamber music. He is the author of Johannes Regis (Brepols, 2010) and co-editor of two volumes of essays: Western Plainchant in the First Millennium: Studies in the Medieval Liturgy and its Music (Ashgate, 2003), and The Century of Bach and Mozart: Perspectives on Historiography, Composition, Theory and Performance (Harvard, 2008). Recent articles include: “Busnoys, Burgundy, and the Song of Songs,” in Uno gentile et subtile ingenio: Studies in Renaissance Music in Honor of Bonnie Blackburn (Brepols, 2009); “The Berlin Chansonnier and French Song in Florence, 1450-1490: A New Dating and its Implications,” Journal of Musicology (2007); “Seigneur Leon’s Papal Sword: Ferrara, Du Fay, and His Songs of the 1440s,” Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (2007). In 2002 he was awarded a Ryskamp Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and in 2008 the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
