Paul Schleuse
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Musicology
Music
Background
Paul Schleuse is chair of the Music Department and associate professor of musicology at , where he is also a faculty associate of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. His research engages issues of music-making, sociability, race, class and genre in early-modern Europe and, in his current work, in twentieth-century Houston.
He is the author of Singing Games in Early Modern Italy: The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi and the editor of Orazio Vecchi’s Selva di varia ricreatione. With Olivia Holmes, he co-edited “Authority and Materiality in the Italian Songbook,” a special issue of Mediaevalia. He served on the editorial board and as a contributing editor to the . He has also contributed articles and reviews to The Journal of Musicology, The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Renaissance Quarterly and several collections, most recently The Museum of Renaissance Music: A History in 100 Exhibits (Brepols, 2022).
Current projects include a critical edition of canzonettas by Adriano Banchieri, a study of music and social networks in early-modern Bologna, and an investigation of Black classical musicians in Jim Crow-era Houston.
Select Publications
- (Brepols, 2022), Chapter 2 Introduction.
- 39 (2018), guest-edited with Olivia Holmes. Special issue: Authority and Materiality in the Italian Songbook: From Medieval Lyric to Early-Modern Madrigal.
- (Indiana University Press, 2015).
- “Balla la mona e salta il babuino: Performing Obscenity in a Musical Dialogue.” : Playing with Boundaries, edited by Melanie Marshall, Catherine McIver, and Linda Carroll. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014.
- “‘A Tale Completed in the Mind’: Genre and Imitation in ’Aھ貹Բ (1597),” 29, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 101–153.
- Orazio Vecchi, Selva di varia ricreatione (1590), (A-R Editions, 2012).
Education
- PhD, City University of New York Graduate Center
- MMus, Manhattan School of Music
- BMus, BA, Rice University cum laude
Research Interests
- The Coleridge-Taylor Choral Club in Jim-Crow Houston
- Black Classical Musicians and Audiences in Houston from Reconstruction to the Civil-Rights Era: Racial Uplift, Musical Aspiration, and Civic Identity
- Social Networks and Recreational Music in Early-Modern Bologna
- Music and Games in Renaissance Italy
Teaching Interests
- History of Western Music before 1800 (MUS 301)
- Opera and Society (MUS 403/503)
- Minimalism in Music (MUS 480B/581B)
- Music History and Research I and II (MUS 501 and MUS 502)
Awards
- Harpur College () Faculty Research Grant, for Mapping Musical Aspiration in Jim-Crow Houston, 2022
- Renaissance Society of America: Digital Innovation Award, honorable mention, for The Tasso in Music Project (editorial board member), 2021
- American Musicological Society: AMS 75 PAYS Endowment and Margarita Hanson Endowment (both funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), subventions for Singing Games in Early Modern Italy, 2015
- Material and Visual Worlds: Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence grant for the conference “Authority and Materiality in the Italian Songbook: From the Medieval Lyric to the Early-Modern Madrigal,” May 1-2, 2015, co-organized with Prof. Olivia Holmes.
- Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, The Irene Alm Prize, 2004.