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…

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!…

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…

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…

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…

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…

More information will appear here regularly as the 2013–14 year gets underway. See you soon!

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…