January 22: Shawn Keener, “Naming the Giustiniana”

Please join us for the second workshop of this winter. Shawn Keener (music history) will present a chapter of her dissertation on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Venetian song. The workshop will take place at 4:30 pm in Logan 801. The respondent will be PhD candidate Kelli Wood, from the Art History Department. The document is available…

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Winter 2014 – Calendar

JANUARY 8 Abstract review session. Several students and members of our faculty will enrich each other with feedback to previously submitted abstracts for upcoming conferences. JANUARY 22 Shawn Keener, “Naming the Giustiniana.” Venetian song and print culture in the sixteenth century. FEBRUARY 12 Jonathan Lee, “Music, Morality, and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” FEBRUARY 25 Dörte…

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December 4: Peter Shultz, “Breaking Routine”

Dear all, Please join us for the final workshop of the quarter, as Peter Shultz comes from Minnesota to talk about a chapter of his dissertation, titled “Breaking Routine.” We’ll meet on Wednesday, December 4, at the usual time and place (4:30–6:00 p.m. in the Logan Terrace Seminar Room, 801) for food, drink, and good conversation!…

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November 20: Drew Nobile, “Towards a Syntactical Definition of Harmonic Function in Rock Music and Other Repertoires”

Dear all,   Next week’s Music History/Theory Workshop features the newest member of the Music Department faculty, Drew Nobile, presenting a paper titled, “Towards a Syntactical Definition of Harmonic Function in Rock and Other Repertoires.” The pre-circulated reading and related media links are available on the “downloads” page, with password “rock” – Sarah Iker will open…

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November 13: Dan Wang, When Is Opera Theatrical?

Please join us for next week’s Music History/Theory Workshop–we’ll discuss Dan Wang’s essay, “When is Opera Theatrical?” The paper is available on the workshop website, with password “opera”: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/musichistorytheory/downloads-2/   Dan writes:   This essay is in two parts. In the first part I look at the position that takes opera initially to be a divided…

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October 23: Special Session, AMS Conference Talks

Please join us this Wednesday for the first session of this year’s Music History/Theory Workshop! This week marks a special session, as Claudio Vellutini and Trent Leipert present talks for the upcoming AMS conference in Pittsburgh. Because these are conference talks, there will be no pre-circulated readings this week. There will, however, be the usual delicious food and drink…

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Fall-quarter Workshops

Dear all,        We cordially invite you to attend this quarter’s Music History/Theory Workshop! This fall’s workshop features a variety of materials, from AMS presentations (Trent Leipert and Claudio Vellutini) to dissertation-proposal work (Dan Wang) to in-progress dissertation chapters: Peter Shultz returns from Minnesota to discuss his work on video-game music, and we…

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