Mary Ann Smart Explained

Mary Ann Smart (29 March 1964 in Toronto) is a Canadian-born musicologist.

Smart earned a doctorate from Cornell University and is the Terrill Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1] She specializes in the study of nineteenth century opera.^[2]

Selected publications

• Book: Smart . Mary Ann . Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815-1848 . 2018 . University of California Press . 9780520276253. ^[3]
• Book: Wye Jamison Allanbrook . Allanbrook . Wye Jamison . Smart . Mary Ann. Richard Taruskin . Taruskin . Richard . The Secular Commedia: Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music . 2014 . University of California Press . 9780520958876. ^[4]
• Book: Smart . Mary Ann . Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera . 2004 . University of California Press . 9780520248311. ^[5]
• Book: Smart . Mary Ann . Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera . 2000 . Princeton University Press . 9780691058139. ^[6]

Notes and References

1. News: Mary Ann Smart . 1 February 2022 . Department of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
2. News: Mary Ann Smart . 1 February 2022 . Department of Music, University of California, Berkeley.
3. Reviews include:
   • Carini . Jaime . Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815–1848 by Mary Ann Smart (review) . Notes . December 2020 . 77 . 2 . 291–294 . 10.1353/not.2020.0105. 227256882 .
   • Grab . Alexander . Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815–1848 By Mary Ann Smart. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. xvi+236. $60.00. . The Journal of Modern History . December 2019 . 91 . 4 . 953–955 . 10.1086/705862. 210476899 .
   • Rutherford . Susan . Waiting for Verdi: opera and political opinion in nineteenth-century Italy, 1815–1848 by Mary Ann Smart, Oakland, University of California Press, 2018, xiv + 236 pp., $60.00 (hard cover), : 9780520276253 . Journal of Modern Italian Studies . 2020 . 25 . 3 . 347–359 . 10.1080/1354571X.2020.1754667. 221055663 .
   • Madigan . Patrick . Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815-1848. By Smart, Mary Ann. Pp. xiv, 236, Oakland: University of California Press, 2018, $49.95. . The Heythrop Journal . May 2020 . 61 . 3 . 566–567 . 10.1111/heyj.13540. 219022457 .
   • Maes . Francis . Mary Ann Smart, Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815–1848 . European History Quarterly . 2019 . 49 . 3 . 533–534 . 10.1177/0265691419860743v. 199151672 .
4. Chapin . Keith . The Secular Commedia: Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music. By Wye Jamison Allanbrook . Ed. by Mary Ann Smart and Richard Taruskin . pp. xv + 234 . University of California Press, Oakland, 2014 . £41.95. 978-0-520-27407-5 . . Music and Letters . February 2016 . 97 . 1 . 165–167 . 10.1093/ml/gcv111. Republished at Project MUSE
5. Reviews include:
   • Cruz . Gabriela . How Musical Is Gesture? Review of Mary Ann Smart. 2004. Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press . Current Musicology . 10 September 2007 . 84 . 10.7916/cm.v0i84.5102. Alternate URL
   • Hibberd . Sarah . Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera. By Mary Ann Smart . pp. ix + 247 . (University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 2004, £45. 0- 520-23995-4.) . Music and Letters . May 2007 . 88 . 2 . 370–374 . 10.1093/ml/gcl148.
   • Campana . Alessandra . Review of 'Mimomania. Music and Gesture in 19th-Century Opera' by Mary Ann Smart . Verdi Forum . 2005 . 32 . 79–82 .
   • Gallo . Denise P. . Mary Ann Smart, Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). 245 pp. $50 . Nineteenth-Century Music Review . June 2008 . 5 . 1 . 105–109 . 10.1017/S1479409800002639. 190727053 .
   • Einhorn . Eric . Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera . Opera Journal . June 2005 . 38 . 2 . 31–33 .
6. Suschitzky . Anya . Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera (review) . Notes . December 2001 . 58 . 2 . 336–337 . 10.1353/not.2001.0225. 194047305 .