Please join us for the second-to-last workshop of the year — next Wednesday! Maria Josefa Velasco Interpreting the Dreams of Méhul and Duval’s Joseph (1807): Opera and a New Religious Sentiment in Post-Revolutionary France Wednesday, May 22 @ 4:30 PM Logan Center for the Arts, Terrace Seminar Room 801 Mari Jo writes: The paper draft…

Please join us for a special event in our Workshop schedule: Dmitri Tymoczko Associate Professor of Music, Princeton University   “Tonal Functionalities”   Logan Center for the Arts, Terrace Seminar Room 801 4:30 – 6:00 PM ABSTRACT: “Over the past several years, I have been building a database of computer-readable scores and musical analyses, with…

We are delighted to have Andrew Cashner, Ph.D. Candidate in Music History and Theory, present in the final Workshop of winter quarter. Andrew A. Cashner Christ as a Vihuela, and the Limits of Imitation: José de Cáseda’s Villancico Qué música divina, c. 1700 Wednesday, March 13 from 4:30 to 6:00 PM Logan Center for the…

Announcing the next Music History/Theory Workshop: August Sheehy, Ph.D. Student in Music History and Theory Music Analysis as a Practice of the Self Wednesday, February 13 @ 4:30 PM Logan Center, Room 802 August writes: In the 1980 New Grove Dictionary, Ian Bent wrote, “[Music] analysis is a means of answering directly the question ‘How…

The first Workshop of Winter Quarter will be held on Wednesday, January 16. Hyunree Cho, Ph.D. Candidate in Music History and Theory Recursion and Interval (Part I) This is the second chapter of my dissertation, Analysis as Poetry: Musical Transformation, Hermeneutics, and Music analysis. The main project of the dissertation is to offer an account of Lewinian transformational…

We are delighted to announce that the following presenters will share their work with us this quarter. Meetings, as before, will be on Wednesdays at 4:30 (unless otherwise noted). January 16: Hyunree Cho, “Recursion and Interval I” January 30: Miriam Tripaldi February 13: Ana Sánchez-Rojo February 27: Haun Saussy, Professor in Comparative Literature, “Prosody Between Music…

We are delighted to welcome Hannah McKeown, Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy, to the Music History/Theory Workshop! Hannah McKeown, Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy “Translation and Metaphor in Program Music” Wednesday, November 28, 2012 @ 4:30 PM Logan Arts Center, Room 802  The pre-circulated reading is here. We look forward to seeing you all there! Dan &…

We are delighted to announce the next Workshop in our Fall schedule: Sarah Iker, Ph. D. Student in Music History and Theory “Familiar, Yet Strange: Analyzing Stravinsky’s Neoclassicism” Wednesday, October 24 @4:30 PM Logan Center for the Arts, 8th floor seminar room (**NOTE THE VENUE CHANGE**) ABSTRACT : The goal of this project is to develop…

We are delighted to announce the first Music History/Theory Workshop of 2012-13. Martha Feldman, Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Music and the Humanities in the College, will present the first chapter of her upcoming book on Wednesday, October 10 at 4:30 PM in Regenstein library (JRL) 264. ABSTRACT: This is the first of six chapters from…

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new year for the Music History/Theory Workshop! Our scheduled speakers for Fall Quarter are as follows: Martha Feldman October 10 Sarah Iker October 24 Meredith Moretz November 7 Hannah McKeown November 28 Gregory Weinstein December 5 The format of the workshop typically consists of 15-30 minutes of…