Seth Coluzzi

Seth Coluzzi is a scholar of the music, poetry, and culture of late-Renaissance Italy, whose research focuses on issues of interpretation, analysis, mode, and identity in the Italian madrigal. His work on early-music analysis and the Italian madrigal has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, the Journal of Musicology, Music Theory Spectrum, Music and Letters, Early Music, Studi musicali, A-R Online Anthology, and various edited collections. His recent book, Guarini's 'Il pastor fido' and the Italian Madrigal: Voicing the Pastoral in Late Renaissance Italy (Routledge, 2023), looks at a pivotal trend in the late madrigal of setting texts from Battista Guarini's pastoral tragicomedy, Il pastor fido (1589).

In addition to the Italian Renaissance, Seth's research interests include music analysis, songwriting, and Western popular music and K-pop. His teaching includes classes on Western music history, global music, songwriting, and music theory. 

Alongside his scholarly work, Seth is an active singer-songwriter and a performer of ballet.

Seth received his doctorate from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill with the dissertation "Structure and Interpretation in Luca Marenzio's Settings of Il pastor fido."  Seth has also served as an academic fellow at the Australian National University; at Villa I Tatti, Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy; and at the National Gugak Center in Seoul, South Korea.