Ricciardi Awarded 3-Year Digital Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Emiliano Ricciardi, associate professor of music history, has been awarded a three-year, $224,688 Digital Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for his Tasso in Music Project. The full list of grant recipients is available here. 

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Led by Ricciardi and realized in collaboration with Stanford University and a team of scholars from North America and Europe, the Tasso in Music Project is the first digital critical edition of the early modern musical settings of renowned Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544-95).

Thanks to the NEH Digital Advancement Grant, Ricciardi and his collaborators will enhance the project’s impact by expanding the critical apparatus and the tools for the analysis of music and poetry embedded in the digital platform. They will also increase the project’s accessibility, making the repertoire available in new electronic formats, including Braille.

The grant will further cement the Tasso in Music Project’s standing as one the most prominent digital humanities projects devoted to the study of early modern music and poetry. The Tasso project also received a $260,000 Scholarly Editions and Translation Grant from the NEH in 2016, as well as an Honorable Mention - Digital Innovation Award from the Renaissance Society of America in 2021. The first phase of the Tasso project culminated in 2020 with a virtual conference hosted by the UMass Department of Music and Dance featuring an international slate of scholars and performers.