GREGORIO BEVILACQUA
CURRICULUM VITAE
WEB
www.gregoriobevilacqua.com
CONTACT
INFORMATION
Flat 5A Westbourne Mansions
Westbourne Crescent
Southampton SO17 1UW (UK)
PRESENT
APPOINTMENT
Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK («Cantum
pulcriorem invenire: Thirteenth-Century Music and Poetry», a research project founded by the
Arts and Humanities Research Council and directed by Prof. Mark Everist).
PREVIOUS
APPOINTMENT
Ingénieur d'études (Research Assistant) at the «Centre d’Études Supérieures de la
Renaissance», University of Tours, France (March 2009-June 2010). Research project
on instrumental music notation (fourteenth to eighteenth century), directed by Profs.
Dinko Fabris, John Griffiths and Philippe Vendrix.
EDUCATION
«Alma Mater Studiorum» University of Bologna, Bologna, ITALY
Ph. D., Musicology and Musical Heritage, May 2009
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: +44 (0)23 8055 9572
Mobile: +44 (0)7505 839074
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Dissertation: ‘Il Comentum super
Introduzione ed edizione critica’
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Supervisor: Prof. Cesarino Ruini
cantum
di
Roger
Caperon.
Advisor: Prof. Jan Herlinger
Final Grade: Excellent
Conservatory of Bologna «G. B. Martini», Bologna, ITALY
Master of Guitar Diploma, July 2008
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Teacher: M° Walter Zanetti
Final Grade: 9.5/10
«Alma Mater Studiorum» University of Bologna, Bologna, ITALY
Laurea, Disciplines of Music, July 2004
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Dissertation: ‘Los Seys libros del delphin de musica (Valladolid, 1538):
opere polifonico-vocali intavolate per vihuela da Luys de Narváez’
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Supervisor: Prof. Cesarino Ruini
Final Grade: 110/110 summa cum laude
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Medieval and Renaissance Music History and Theory; Notre-Dame Polyphony of the
Thirteenth Century; Plainchant History and Traditions.
TEACHING
INTERESTS
Medieval and Early Renaissance Music History (especially Plainchant and Notre-Dame
school); Music Paleography; Renaissance Instrumental Music and Notation; Latin
Paleography; Codicology.
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant for the course «Fundamentals of Analysis, Counterpoint and
Harmony» at the Department of Music, University of Southampton, 2012-2013 (tutors:
Prof. William Drabkin and Dr. Francesco Izzo). Evaluation of UG students’ informal and
formal assignments, lecturing.
Teaching Assistant for the courses «History of Medieval and Renaissance Music» and
«Music Palaeography» at the Department of Music, University of Bologna, 2005-2009
1 (tutor: Prof. Cesarino Ruini). Lecturing, evaluation of students, advising BA and MA
dissertations.
«‘Voi ch’ascoltate in rime sparse il suono’. Il Petrarca in Musica», Bologna, ITALY.
Seminar for undergraduate students on text and music editing of 16th century madrigals:
http://www.saggiatoremusicale.it/attivita/2006/petrarca.php (4-25 May 2006).
WORKING
EXPERIENCE
Laboratorio Musicale di XII Morelli, Cento, Italy. Guitar teacher: after school course
for secondary school students (January-May 2008).
CARISBO Plainchant School, Bologna, Italy. Plainchant Theory Teacher: course
aimed to give attendants the fundamental theoretical knowledge to learn and practice
plainchant (September 2008-February 2009).
CONCERT
ACTIVITY
«Cordes pincées et voix de Josquin à Schubert. La voix et la guitare à travers les
siècles (XVème-XIXème siècles)», Tours, Salle Ockeghem (FRANCE), 5 May 2009.
Ensemble performance on guitar of four Franz Peter Shubert’s lieder.
«Pomeriggio musicale» in Biblioteca, Bologna (ITALY), Biblioteca Universitaria, 21
June 2008.
Performance of the guitar duet Preludio e fuga in La minore and the Tarantella by Mario
Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Festival «in Corde», Bologna (ITALY), Palazzo Malvezzi, 2 March 2008.
Performance of the 11th study for guitar by Heitor Villa Lobos:
http://www.invito.provincia.bologna.it/Engine/RAServePG.php/P/276011040203 GRANTS
«Marco Polo» funding (University of Bologna): funding for three months of research
in Oxford (Bodleian Library) and London (British Library), UK (July-October 2006).
Ph. D. studentship (University of Bologna): funded full-time postgraduate course
(2005-2009).
AFFILIATIONS
Associazione culturale «Il Saggiatore Musicale»
Plainsong and Medieval Music Society
LANGUAGES
Fluent in English
Good in French
Spanish (Reading only)
Italian mother tongue
OTHER SKILLS
Knowledge of Latin
COMPUTING
SKILLS
Operating Systems: Mac OS X; Windows 7
Programs: MS Office, Open Office, Finale (plus Medieval plug-in), iWork 2009, File
Maker Pro 9, Sibelius, End Note X5, etc.
SERVICES
Member of the organizing committee for the «Royal Musical Association Research
Students’ Conference 2013», Southampton, 3-5 January 2013
Book review of John Potter and Neil Sorrell, A History of Singing (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2012), to appear in Plainsong and Medieval Music vol. 22, part 1 (2013).
2 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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‘The Eloquence of Absence’, «Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference», University of
Nottingham, UK, 11 July 2012.
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‘Oltre le linee di demarcazione: conductus o mottetto?’, «XV Colloquio di Musicologia del Saggiatore
Musicale», Università di Bologna, ITALY, 19 November 2011.
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‘Conductus or motet? A New Source and a Question of Genre’, «The Gothic Revolution: Music in
Western Europe, 1100-1300», Princeton University, USA, 4 November 2011.
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‘Conductus or motet? A New Source and a Question of Genre’, «Medieval and Renaissance Music
Conference», Institut d’Estudis Catalans, SPAIN, 6 July 2011.
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‘Diversitatem modorum demonstrare: Learning Modes in Roger Caperon’s Comentum’, «Medieval and
Renaissance Music Conference», Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, 8 July 2010.
6.
‘Corpus des luthistes : sources, projects éditoriaux, etc.’, «Séminaire de recherche en musicologie»,
CESR, Université de Tours, FRANCE, 1 June 2010.
7.
‘Materia huius artis est aer et aqua: The “Musical Rock” in Roger Caperon’s Comentum super cantum’,
«Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference», College of Arts and Humanities, Bangor University,
UK, 26 July 2008.
8. ‘Materia huius artis est aer et aqua: la “roccia musicale” nel Comentum super cantum di Roger Caperon’,
«XII Incontro dei Dottorati di Ricerca in Discipline Musicali», Laboratori del DMS, Università di
Bologna, ITALY, 24 May 2008.
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