We are excited to welcome Dan Wang to this week’s installment of the Music History/Theory workshop. Dan will present a case study from one chapter of his dissertation on Wagner’s song contest operas. The document is available here. We hope to see you on Wednesday, December 2 at 4:30pm in the Logan Terrace Room 801.  

We are thrilled to have Professor Lawrence Zbikowski launch this year’s workshop with his paper, “Music and the Simulation of Emotions.” The abstract appears below; download the pre-circulated paper here. Please join us for this inaugural event in Logan Terrace Room 801 from 4:30 to 6:00 pm on Wednesday, October 7. Abstract: In this paper…

We are pleased to announce the calendar for this autumn’s Music History and Theory Workshop. October 7         Lawrence Zbikowski, “Music and the Simulation of Emotions.” October 21       Dry-Runs for the Society of Music Theory presenters November 4    Dry-Runs for the American Musicological Society presenters November 18  Jess…