Claude V. Palisca

On retirement, he was appointed Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor Emeritus of Music at Yale.

In addition to directing the Yale music curriculum, he consulted for the U.S. Office of Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

[1][2] His musicological writings included numerous publications in the academic musical press and a number of books, some co-authored with Donald Jay Grout and others.

[1] In 1994, Clarendon Press republished a series of his most-cited papers, stating: Claude V. Palisca has long been acknowledged as a leading authority on Italian music of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

They have further been selected because of their relevance to current research, as evidenced by their continued citation in publications and dissertations.