The academic year has flown by like a magnificent vulture, and I can’t believe it’s time to invite you all to the final workshop of the year. Abigail Fine, music historian extraordinaire, will be presenting work from her dissertation proposal, tentatively titled, “The Saintly Composer and Material Presence in Late Nineteenth-Century Popular Reception.” The discussion…

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…

The Music History/Theory Workshop is delighted to welcome Jutta Toelle, Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Music at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin, who will be sharing a draft from her current book project. Jutta Toelle So schön singen die nackten Barbaren: European narratives on “mission through music” in the Guaraní reductions Wednesday,…

Ethnoise! and the Music History/Theory Workshop are pleased to present the following joint Workshop: Karl Swinehart Collegiate Assistant Professor of the Humanities ****************** “Tupac in their Veins: Hip-Hop Alteño and the Semiotics of Urban Indigeneity” Friday, April 5 | 3:30 to 5:00 PM JRL 264 Professor Swinehart will be discussing hip-hop collective Wayna Rap’s work…

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…

This Friday, March 1 at 3:30pm in Logan 801 (please notice the change in date, location and time!!), we welcome Professor Martin Zenck, who will be presenting his work in the hopes of starting a discussion with members of the University before he takes up his post as visiting professor in the music department during…

This Wednesday, February 27 at 4:30pm in Logan 802, we welcome Haun Saussy, University Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature here at the University of Chicago. We will discuss a paper entitled “Prosody Between Music and Text: or, a Sidelight on Oral Poetry Theory,” available here (please email mcpierson [at] uchicago.edu for the password)….

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…

For the next workshop, we welcome Miriam Tripaldi, a candidate in Music History/Theory here at the University of Chicago. Below is a note from Miriam about her project, and the pre-circulated reading is available here (email Marcy or Dan if you need the password). See you on Wednesday, marcy and dan ____________________________ This is a…