Headshot of Victor Coelho

Chair, Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology;
Director, Center for Early Music Studies;
Professor of Music

Research Areas: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian music; Renaissance and Baroque instrumental styles; popular music (Blues and rock history); interdisciplinary approaches; cross-cultural perspectives

Selected Publications:
With Keith Polk, Instrumentalists and Renaissance Culture, 1420-1600 (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

Editor, The Cambridge Companion to the Guitar (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Editor, Music and Science in the Age of Galileo (Springer, 1992)

The Manuscript Sources of 17th-Century Italian Lute Music (Routledge, 1995)

For a detailed academic bio and CV, please see Professor Coelho’s Department Profile.