Please join us for our final workshop of the quarter with special guest James Symons, a PhD Candidate in Music Theory and Cognition at Northwestern. James will be discussing an excerpt from his dissertation, “Temporal Regularity as a Key to Uncovering Statistically Significant Schemas in an Eighteenth-Century Corpus” (accessible here). Our own John Lawrence will serve…

Scribe and Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine: a world-minded Parisian opera Please join us this Wednesday (Nov. 12, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m., Logan 801) for Tommaso Sabbatini’s presentation of his paper for a conference on nineteenth-century grand opera outside Paris. Lauren Eldridge will serve as respondent. Tommaso’s draft is available here; his abstract may be viewed here. We hope…

4:30 Ted Gordon – “Sound is God: La Monte Young and Pandit Pran Nath in New York” 5:15 Miriam Tripaldi – “Dispelling the Western Myth: Opera, Mobility, Experimentation, and the Emergence of the Russian Nation in Saint Petersburg” We are proud to welcome our own Ted Gordon and Miriam Tripaldi next Wednesday, Oct. 29, as they gear up for their approaching AMS Milwaukee…

Columnated Ruins Domino, 1966: Reading the Beach Boys’ “Surf’s Up” as Critique of Lincoln Center  Please join us next Wednesday (October 22, 4:30–6:00 p.m., Logan Terrace Room 801) as we plunge ears first into the Beach Boys’ “Surf’s Up,” led by our friend and colleague Peter Gillette. To wet your whistle, check out his paper here and a special version of the song here. Peter’s work on…

We are delighted to launch this year’s workshop series with a special presentation from Professor Lawrence Zbikowski on his current book project, Toward a Cognitive Grammar of Music. Our discussion will center especially on the book’s sixth chapter, “Words and Music” (downloadable here). You are cordially invited to join us for this exciting inaugural event in Logan Terrace…