Claude V. Palisca
Claude Victor Palisca (24 November 1921 – 11 January 2001) was an American musicologist. An internationally recognized authority on
early music, especially
opera of the
Renaissance and
Baroque periods, he was the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor Emeritus of Music at
Yale University. Palisca is best known for co-writing (with
Donald Jay Grout) the standard textbook ''A History of Western Music'' (3rd–6th editions, 1980–2001), as well as for his substantial body of work on the history of
music theory in the Renaissance, reflected in his editorship of the Yale Music Theory in Translation series and in the book ''Humanism in Italian Renaissance Musical Thought'' (1985). In particular, he was the leading expert on the
Florentine Camerata. His 1968 book ''Baroque Music'' in the
Prentice-Hall ''history of music'' series ran to three editions.
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