Faculty: Musicology

Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie 
(Ph.D., University of Michigan)

Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
bmackenzie@gc.cuny.edu

Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie is editor-in-chief of RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, the international abstracted bibliography of music literature, a position she has held since January 1996. In July 1999 Dr. Mackenzie was appointed director of the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at the City University of New York Graduate Center. The Center's publications include RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (in printed volumes, CD-ROM, and online formats), the journals Music in Art and The Free-Reed Journal, the new edition of the Pergolesi complete works, the French opera in facsimile series, and the Iberian Music series.  Dr. Mackenzie is active in the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (chair: annual RILM sessions), the Music Library Association, and the American Musicological Society. Before coming to RILM, Dr. Mackenzie taught music history courses at Western Michigan University and the University of Michigan.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS: 

The Creation of a Genre: Comic Opera's Dissemination in Italy in the 1740s.  New York: Pendragon, 2003 (forthcoming).

Various articles on the Baglioni family of 18th-century opera singers for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and  The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition.

"Neapolitan Comic Opera in Naples and in Rome: Pergolesi's Lo frate 'nnammorato and Latilla's La finta cameriera,"  Studi pergolesiana 3 (1999).

Various RILM reports, published in Fontes Artis Musicae, 1996 to present.