The Marenzio Project aims at making available for the first time, and online, a complete critical edition of the secular music of Luca Marenzio (ca. 1553-1599), one of the most important composers of the European Renaissance. The edition is termed Marenzio Online Digital Edition (MODE). An international research group has been working on MODE since 2004.
In July 2011 the Project was awarded a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.A.) as part of the "Scholarly Editions and Translations" program. The edition is also supported by the Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library and by the Digital Humanities Center at Columbia University in New York City. The Editorial Board of MODE is grateful to NEH and to Columbia University for their generous support.
The Editorial Board of MODE consists of seven specialists in various disciplines: philology and critical editing (concerning both musical and poetic sources), computer science, technologies and history of printing, music theory, and early modern music history. They are:
- Mauro Calcagno, MODE Director, NEH Project Principal Investigator (associate professor, Stony Brook University, NY, U.S.A.)
- Paolo Cecchi (associate professor, Università di Bologna, Italy)
- Giuseppe Gerbino, NEH Project Co-Principal Investigator (associate professor, Columbia University, NY, U.S.A.)
- Christine Jeanneret, NEH Project Senior Editor (post-doctoral researcher, Université de Genève, Switzerland)
- Thomas Lin (doctoral student, Harvard University, MA, U.S.A)
- Arnaldo Morelli (associate professor, Università dell’Aquila, Italy)
- Laurent Pugin, MODE Co-director (Co-director, Répertoire International des Sources Musicales [RISM], Switzerland)
The Advisory Board consists of:
- Jane Bernstein (professor, Tufts University, MA, U.S.A.)
- Etienne Darbellay (professor, Université de Genève, Switzerland)
- James Haar (emeritus professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.)
- Anthony Newcomb (emeritus professor, University of California, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.)
Seth Coluzzi (assistant professor, Brandeis University) and Lucia Marchi (Northeastern Illinois and De Paul University) collaborate to the NEH Project.
Elizabeth Davis, Head Librarian of the Columbia Univ. Music Library, provides invaluable assistance.
Dr. Pugin is the lead developer of the Aruspix project, an innovative software application for the optical recognition, the superimposition, and the collation of early music prints.
For further information please contact Prof. Mauro Calcagno at mauro.calcagno@stonybrook.edu. Thanks.