Gary Tomlinson is an American musicologist, and Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

. Beginning in the fall of 2011, he will be a full time faculty member at Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

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He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

, with a Ph.D., in 1979.

Works

• Monteverdi and the end of the Renaissance University of California Press, 1987

Music in renaissance magic: toward a historiography of others, University of Chicago press, 1993

• Metaphysical song: an essay on opera, Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-691-00409-9
• The singing of the New World: indigenous voice in the era of European contact, Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-87391-8

With Joseph Kerman: Listen, sixth edn., Bedford/St.Martin's, 2008

Contributor

• The Harvard dictionary of music, Editor Don Michael Randel, Harvard University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-674-01163-2

External links

• "Where it all began", Penn Current, Jan. 10, 2008.

• The Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities
  The Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities
  The Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities is an annual honorary bestowed upon an “established scholar of classical literature, who has made substantial contributions to the critical analysis of classical literature, or has been exceptionally skilled at inspiring an...
  
  (The Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities 1992-1993)