scholar of Baroque opera, dies
Claude V. Palisca, the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor Emeritus of Music, died on Jan. 11 at age 79.
Considered one of the leading musicologists of his generation, Professor Palisca was acclaimed for his wide-ranging scholarship in music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, and for his publications on the history of music theory from antiquity to the 19th century.
His early reputation was made as a foremost scholar of early Baroque Italian opera, and his work in Renaissance music culminated in the publication in 1985 of "Humanism in Italian Renaissance Musical Thought."
Since the 1960s Professor Palisca was a proponent of music education in the United States. He directed the Yale Music Curriculum Project sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education, and chaired the Advanced Placement Committee in Music for the College Entrance Examination. At various times he served as consultant to the U.S. Office of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and to allied institutions in Canada and Australia.
Born in Fiume [now Rijeka, Croatia] in 1921, Professor Palisca did his undergraduate work at Queens College in New York, and received a doctorate from Harvard University in 1954. He taught at the University of Illinois 1953-59, and joined the Yale faculty in 1959. He chaired the Department of Music 1969-75, and again in 1992. In 1980 he was named to the Moses Professorship. He retired from the University in 1992.
Professor Palisca was president of the American Musicological Society 1970-72, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1986. He held visiting appointments at the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Zagreb and the University of Barcelona. He lectured widely in North America and Europe.
Professor Palisca is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Keitel, and two children, Carl P. Palisca of East Haven, Connecticut, and Madeleine G. Palisca of Tucson, Arizona. Memorial contributions may be made to the Friends of Music at Yale, P.O. Box 202007, New Haven 06520-2007 (checks should be payable to Yale University).
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