The Music History and Theory Study Group Presents: Abigail Fine University of Chicago Beethoven’s Shroud, Mozart’s Shrine: Composer-Saints and Their Followers (1870-1930) Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Logan 028 For this study group, I will deliver a mock job talk that offers a “highlights reel” of my research (an alternate format specially requested by my interviewers)….
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The schedule for the new quarter is now live! You can view it here. We will also be opening up a call for abstracts for our annual AMS/SMT abstract workshop on January 4, 2017. The abstract deadlines for the AMS and SMT are fast approaching (Tuesday, January 17 for both societies), so our meeting can…
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Thomas Christensen University of Chicago Tonality in France c. 1860: Scales, Skulls and Sanskrit Wednesday, November 30, 2016 Logan 802 Download the Chapter Here Beginning with the earliest orientalist preclusions of Villoteau, Thomas Christensen traces the influence of this early comparative musicology on the theories and music of François-Joseph Fétis. Through this lens, we follow…
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The Music History and Theory Study Group Presents: Rebecca Flore University of Chicago Liminality and the Voice in the Works of Peter Ablinger Wednesday, November 16, 2016 Logan, 802 Download the Chapter Here Although not associated with the spectral music movement borne out of IRCAM, Peter Ablinger composes music that shares commonalities with spectral music….
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The Music History and Theory Study Group In collaboration with the TAPS Workshop Present: Axel Englund Stockholm University Theatres of Transgression: Bondage, Fetishism and S&M in Contemporary opera Staging Monday, November 14, 2016 Logan, 801 Axel Englund is currently a Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Stockholm University, where he also earned his PhD in Literature in…
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This Wednesday, October 19th from 4:30-6pm, will be the second session of the Music History and Theory Study Group, featuring dry runs for the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory. We will feature three papers: Braxton Shelley’s “‘Tuning Up’ in Contemporary Gospel Performance,” Rebecca Flore’s “Orchestrating Speech in the…
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We are pleased to welcome Jennifer Iverson to our study group for the inaugural meeting of this school year: Wednesday, Oct. 5, from 4:30-6:00 pm in Goodspeed 205! Jennifer will be presenting her chapter, “Techno-Synthesis: From Vocoder Speech to Electronic Music,” which explores the history of the vocoder as it threads together issues of gender,…
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Welcome to the freshly redesigned site for the History/Theory Study Group at the University of Chicago. In the next couple of weeks, we will be updating the site with this quarter’s calendar and other great content. If you want to be kept abreast of study group activity, you can subscribe to our email list at…
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