We are thrilled to have Professor Lawrence Zbikowski launch this year’s workshop with his paper, “Music and the Simulation of Emotions.” The abstract appears below; download the pre-circulated paper here. Please join us for this inaugural event in Logan Terrace Room 801 from 4:30 to 6:00 pm on Wednesday, October 7. Abstract: In this paper…

We are pleased to announce the calendar for this autumn’s Music History and Theory Workshop. October 7         Lawrence Zbikowski, “Music and the Simulation of Emotions.” October 21       Dry-Runs for the Society of Music Theory presenters November 4    Dry-Runs for the American Musicological Society presenters November 18  Jess…

We are beyond delighted to welcome distinguished guest, Gary Tomlinson, for our final workshop of the quarter, taking place next Wednesday, June 3rd (4:30-6:00 PM in Logan 801). Professor Tomlinson will be discussing his recently published book, A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity  (Zone Books/MIT Press, 2015), a richly woven narrative about the evolution of human musicking…

Please join us for the last workshop of the quarter (Wednesday March 4; 4:30-6:00 pm in Logan 801) as Zach Loeffler and Max Silva present material from their dissertation proposal drafts. We look forward to seeing you all there!

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!

Please join us for our next workshop (February 4, 4:30–6:00 p.m., Logan 801) as we welcome Gilad Cohen, Assistant Professor of Music Performance/Theory at Ramapo College, who will be presenting a paper entitled “Breaking Away From the Pack: Unique Large-Scale Structure in Pink Floyd’s Song ‘Dogs’”. He writes: In their seventeen-minute track “Dogs” from the 1977 LP Animals,…

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…

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…