This week’s workshop takes us to the life of a medieval monastery in Sweden. PhD candidate Michelle Urberg will present part of her dissertation work on musical literacy in the Vadstena abbey in the fifteenth century. We hope you can join us! Paper available on the downloads page (see right menu).

Ernst Kurth on Form and Erformung     Join us for the first session of the spring quarter this year. Prof. Daphne Tan from Indiana University Bloomington will present on early-twentieth century music theory. The session will take place in Logan 801, from 4:30 to 6 pm. Prof. Tan’s paper-in-progress can be found on the…

Come chat with PhD candidate Peter Smucker about the chamber music of Elliott Carter. Peter will be presenting ideas from the second chapter of his dissertation. The pre-circulated text as well as a link to audio examples can be found in the downloads page (menu on the right).

Indian Summer in Times of War? Richard Strauss’ Last Opera. Guest speaker from Germany Dörte Schmidt will present some work she is looking to expand. She investigates how Capriccio, Richard Strauss’ last opera can be read in its historical context. Capriccio was premiered in 1942 under the patronage of Joseph Goebbels. The workshop will take place in…

Dear members of the MHT Workshop: We cordially invite you to our next session, featuring postdoctoral fellow Jonathan Lee. The meeting will take place on Feb 12 at 4:30, Logan 801. The pre-circulated reading is available in our blog with the password Handel. Jonathan has also provided an abstract to get a preview (pasted below). Please…

Please join us for the second workshop of this winter. Shawn Keener (music history) will present a chapter of her dissertation on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Venetian song. The workshop will take place at 4:30 pm in Logan 801. The respondent will be PhD candidate Kelli Wood, from the Art History Department. The document is available…

A collaboration from Prof. Hoeckner to our January 8 session, this is a handy-dandy brief guide to abstract writing. How to write an abstract (Hoeckner)

JANUARY 8 Abstract review session. Several students and members of our faculty will enrich each other with feedback to previously submitted abstracts for upcoming conferences. JANUARY 22 Shawn Keener, “Naming the Giustiniana.” Venetian song and print culture in the sixteenth century. FEBRUARY 12 Jonathan Lee, “Music, Morality, and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” FEBRUARY 25 Dörte…