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Maria Anne Purciello
Assistant Professor of Music History

Room 230, Swope Music Building
Phone: 610 436-2679
mpurciello@wcupa.edu

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Curriculum Vitae

Education
B.A. (Music), College of the Holy Cross
M.F.A., Ph.D. (Musicology) Princeton University

Maria Purciello studied music history with Wendy Heller, Carolyn Abbate, Harry Powers and Peter Jeffery, and theory with Scott Burnham and Kofi Agawu.  She has lectured on the musical aesthetics of comedy in Seicento Roman and Venetian Opera and on early modern intersections of music, dance and intermedii.  In addition to her work on the vocal and operatic repertoires of the late renaissance and baroque, Dr. Purciello’s scholarly interests include interdisciplinary approaches to opera studies; representations of humor and comedy in instrumental music; the aesthetics of musical reception; Indonesian music; and women and music.  

Dr. Purciello has presented her research at the joint meetings of the Society for Music Theory and the American Musicological Society (2002, 2004), the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (2003), and the International Baroque Biennial Conference (Manchester, England 2004).  She is a contributor to the encyclopedia of Women and Music in America Since 1900 and is currently working on a series of articles that explore the inter-relationship between comedy and allegory in early opera.  Prior to coming to West Chester, Dr. Purciello taught at the College of the Holy Cross and Gettysburg College.

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