Gary Towne, Professor of Music, has taught Music History, Theory, World and American Music, Interdisciplinary Courses in the Fine Arts, the Italian Renaissance and Early America, and has directed the UND Collegium Musicum. Dr. Towne received a bachelor's degree in Music Theory from Yale and a doctorate in Musicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has received grants from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and a Fulbright for his research on music during the Renaissance in Bergamo, Italy, where he has made six research visits totaling over a year in length and collected thousands of documents. He has published the first volume (Masses) of the Collected Works of Gaspar de Albertis, a composer from Bergamo, and has articles in several major journals. He was honored in 2000 with an invitation to present a UND Faculty Lecture, "Civic Music and Its Institutions in Bergamo, Italy (1300-1600)," in the many facets of music in a typical Italian city of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. After chairing the Music Department from 1999-2006, he spent a year on research leave. Since then, he has written three articles on topics ranging from a 1519 organ contract for the Bergamo cathedral, to pedagogical philosophy in 17th-century Spain, and he is working on a book about Music in Medieval and Renaissance Bergamo, as well as continuing work on Albertis' Collected Works.
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