Associate Dean Christine Getz wins grant from Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Christine Getz
Christine Getz

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Associate Dean Christine Getz was awarded a 2017 Venetian Programs Grant from the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to support research in Venice and Padova for the project, “Venetian Investors, Spanish Clients, and the Milanese Music Prints of Lomazzo and Tini.”

The research is part of a larger study of the investments, economic relationships, and marketing strategies of the printing houses of Filippo Lomazzo, the heirs of Simone Tini and Filippo Lomazzo, and the family Tradate, all prolific publishers of printed music books in early modern Milan.

With the support of the Delmas Grant, Dean Getz will examine notarial documents housed in the Archivio di Stato in Venice pertaining to business transactions between Venetian printers and vendors and the Tini and Tradate families. She also will study the only extant copy of a Lomazzo print recently acquired by the Conservatorio “Cesare Pollini” in Padova.

Along with being the Associate Dean for Graduate Education and the Arts, Dean Getz is also a Professor of Musicology in the School of Music.

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