We are delighted to welcome Prof. Olga Manulkina to the workshop this Wednesday (4:30–6:00 in Logan 801), where she will be presenting on a paper entitled, “‘Foreign’ versus ‘Russian’ in Soviet and post-Soviet Musicology and Music Education.” Miriam Tripaldi will serve as respondent. Access the precirulated document here. Olga Manulkina is an Associate Professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where…

We are delighted and honored to welcome Nadine Hubbs, professor of women’s studies and music at the University of Michigan, for a special Thursday workshop sponsored in conjunction with the EthNoise workshop. Her presentation is entitled, “How the White Working Class (Supposedly) Became Homophobic: Antibourgeois Country and the Middle-Classing of the Queer.” We heartily invite you…

We will be welcoming music history PhD candidate Abigail Fine to present material from a chapter of her dissertation this Wednesday, February 17 at 4:30pm in Logan 801. The pre-circulated document is available here; John Lawrence will serve as respondent.  

At our next workshop, Marcy Pierson will present “Mass Textures and Textures for the Masses in Xenakis’ Music.” Max Silva will serve as respondent. The document is available on the downloads page here. We hope to see you at 4:30pm on Wednesday, February 3 in Logan 801.

We are excited to welcome Anabel Maler and Lindsay Wright to the workshop on Wednesday, January 20 (4:30-6:00 in Logan 801). They will both be presenting material from their dissertation proposals. The two documents offered for precirculation are available here. Anabel and Lindsay welcome your comments and suggestions. We look forward to seeing you there!

We are looking forward to our special abstract-writing workshop this Wednesday, January 6, from 5-6:30pm. All are welcome, regardless of whether their abstract is being reviewed! Please note the different location this week: JRL264. For all writing abstracts this season, here is a helpful document from one of our faculty sponsors, Berthold Hoeckner.

We are excited to welcome Dan Wang to this week’s installment of the Music History/Theory workshop. Dan will present a case study from one chapter of his dissertation on Wagner’s song contest operas. The document is available here. We hope to see you on Wednesday, December 2 at 4:30pm in the Logan Terrace Room 801.  

We are excited to welcome Music History student Jess Peritz to the workshop on Wednesday, November 18 (4:30pm in Logan 801) to present material from her dissertation proposal, The Lyric Mode of Voice: Song and Subjectivity in Italy, 1769 – 1815 (download the document here). Lester Hu will serve as respondent. Jess has suggested that workshop attendees focus primarily on the overview of the project (pp. 1-10);…

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…