For the penultimate session of our annual series (this Wednesday, 4:30–6:00 in Logan 801), we are thoroughly honored to welcome special guest Su Yin Mak, Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Mak will present a paper on “Schillerian Aesthetic Play in Schubert’s String Quartet in A minor, D. 804” (draft…
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We are delighted to welcome Susan Hohl to the workshop this Wednesday (4:30–6:00 in Logan 801) as she sheds light on the coordinates of Liszt’s personae as traveler, reader, and musician. As a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, Susan draws on a broad interdisciplinary background, as is amply evident from her paper “Reading as Pilgrimage: The Stations of Liszt’s Literary Imagination and Recovering the Music…
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April 8 Chelsea Burns, PhD Candidate in Music History/Theory “Way Down South in Dixie”: Langston Hughes and Blackness in the American South …
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On February 18 (4:30–6:00, Logan 801) we are delighted to welcome our friend, colleague, and resident maven of all things Stravinsky, Sarah Iker. Sarah is sharing her hot-off-the-press draft of a new dissertation chapter, “Reviving Pergolesi in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella” (accessible here); Chelsea Burns is serving as respondent. Please join us for what is sure to be a punchy, vivacious discussion!
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We are thrilled to welcome Professor David Levin (Jan. 21, 4:30–6:00 p.m., Logan 801), who will present a paper on “Adorno’s Spectacles: Stravinsky and the Place of Dialectics.” Professor Levin writes: “In the course of his critique of Stravinsky, Theodor Adorno famously argued that Stravinsky’s music denied the musical subject a basis from which to engage the…
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Jan. 7 AMS/SMT 2015 Abstract Review Jan. 21 David Levin, Professor of Germanic Studies/Cinema and Media Studies Adorno’s Spectacles: Stravinsky and the Place of Dialectics Feb. 4 Gilad Cohen, Asst. Professor of Music Performance/Theory at Ramapo College ‘Breaking Away From the Pack’: Unique Large-Scale Structure in Pink Floyd’s Song “Dogs” Feb. 18 Sarah Iker, PhD Candidate in Music History/Theory…
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Please join us for our final workshop of the quarter with special guest James Symons, a PhD Candidate in Music Theory and Cognition at Northwestern. James will be discussing an excerpt from his dissertation, “Temporal Regularity as a Key to Uncovering Statistically Significant Schemas in an Eighteenth-Century Corpus” (accessible here). Our own John Lawrence will serve…
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4:30 Ted Gordon – “Sound is God: La Monte Young and Pandit Pran Nath in New York” 5:15 Miriam Tripaldi – “Dispelling the Western Myth: Opera, Mobility, Experimentation, and the Emergence of the Russian Nation in Saint Petersburg” We are proud to welcome our own Ted Gordon and Miriam Tripaldi next Wednesday, Oct. 29, as they gear up for their approaching AMS Milwaukee…
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Columnated Ruins Domino, 1966: Reading the Beach Boys’ “Surf’s Up” as Critique of Lincoln Center Please join us next Wednesday (October 22, 4:30–6:00 p.m., Logan Terrace Room 801) as we plunge ears first into the Beach Boys’ “Surf’s Up,” led by our friend and colleague Peter Gillette. To wet your whistle, check out his paper here and a special version of the song here. Peter’s work on…
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We are delighted to launch this year’s workshop series with a special presentation from Professor Lawrence Zbikowski on his current book project, Toward a Cognitive Grammar of Music. Our discussion will center especially on the book’s sixth chapter, “Words and Music” (downloadable here). You are cordially invited to join us for this exciting inaugural event in Logan Terrace…
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