We’re pleased to announce the final presenter for the 2011-12 academic year in the Music History/Theory Workshop on May 29, at 4:30pm, in the library seminar room, JRL 264. Melanie Zeck, graduate student in music history and theory at the University of Chicago will present work in progress from her dissertation, “The Platonic Ideal and…

We’re pleased to announce the next presenter for the Music History/Theory Workshop on May 22, at 4:30pm, in the library seminar room, JRL 264. Mary Caldwell, graduate student in music history and theory at the University of Chicago will present work in progress from her dissertation. A link to her pre-circulated writing, an excerpt from…

We’re pleased to announce the next presenter for the Music History/Theory Workshop on May 15, 4:30pm, in the library seminar room, JRL 264. Chelsea Burns, graduate student in music history and theory at the University of Chicago will present her recent work on Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. Her pre-circulated paper is available below. ABSTRACT In…

We’re pleased to announce the next presenter for the Music History/Theory Workshop on May 8, 4:30pm, in the library seminar room, JRL 264. Marcy Pierson, graduate student at the University of Chicago, will be presenting recent work from her dissertation proposal. ABSTRACT Modernist composers often display uneasiness toward singing; they seem to be as unwilling…

First workshop of the Spring Quarter!!  Tuesday, April 24 @4:30pm in JRL 264.Refreshments will be served. ABSTRACT “It is no longer quite fashionable these days to use the word ‘spiritual,’” observed the eminent French historian of ancient philosophy Pierre Hadot. Yet he found the term necessary in order to explain practices of philosophy  before before…

We’re pleased to announce our Spring quarter schedule with five excellent workshops: Tuesday, 24-April: August Sheehy Tuesday, 8-May: Marcy Pierson Tuesday, 15-May: Chelsea Burns Monday, 22-May: Mary Caldwell Tuesday, 29-May: Melanie Zeck All workshops will be held in JRL 264 at 4:30—refreshments will be provided! Abstracts and pre-circulated materials will be posted here at the…

Final workshop of the Winter Quarter!! Come celebrate the end of the quarter with Peter Smucker, graduate student at the University of Chicago in music history and theory, and work from his dissertation proposal!  Tuesday, March 6@3:30pm in JRL 264. Refreshments will be served. Please note that there is an audio clip and pre-circulated materials–see below…

We pleased to announce a special student-faculty session with Professor Jairo Moreno sponsored by the Workshop on Music History/Theory on March 1@ 3:00-4:30 in JRL 264.   Professor Moreno’s presentation, titled “Music Theory as Tool-Being” is open to all Music Department faculty and students and will address Moreno’s concerns about the domain of music theory today.  It will…

Announcing a special workshop co-sponsored by the Music History/Theory Workshop, the EthNoise! Ethnomusicology Workshop, the 18th/19th Century Cultures Workshop, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies.  On February 21, @3:00pm at the Fulton Recital Hall, Professor Bennett Zon, from Durham University UK, will present his work on “Evolution and spiritual selection in Victorian musical culture.”…

Announcing our next presenter for the Music History/Theory Workshop on a special day and at a special time–February 20 @ 5:00pm, in the library seminar room, JRL 264. Trent Leipert is a graduate student at the University of Chicago in music history and theory and will be presenting an excerpt from his dissertation, titled “A…