We are delighted to welcome Hannah McKeown, Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy, to the Music History/Theory Workshop! Hannah McKeown, Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy “Translation and Metaphor in Program Music” Wednesday, November 28, 2012 @ 4:30 PM Logan Arts Center, Room 802  The pre-circulated reading is here. We look forward to seeing you all there! Dan &…

It’s our pleasure to invite you to the third workshop of the quarter, wherein Meredith Moretz will give a presentation based on her proposal, titled “Schubert Ruins: Memory and Fantasy in Postwar Music.” The event will take place Wednesday, November 7 at 4:30pm in Logan 802 (note that this is next door to the last…

We are excited to invite you to our very first jointly held workshop! On Friday, October 26 at 4pm in CWAC 156, in collaboration with the Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia Workshop, Peng Xu will be giving a talk entitled “The Courtesan Singer: Problems of Acoustics and Aesthetic Bifurcation.” Please note that this…

We are delighted to announce the next Workshop in our Fall schedule: Sarah Iker, Ph. D. Student in Music History and Theory “Familiar, Yet Strange: Analyzing Stravinsky’s Neoclassicism” Wednesday, October 24 @4:30 PM Logan Center for the Arts, 8th floor seminar room (**NOTE THE VENUE CHANGE**) ABSTRACT : The goal of this project is to develop…

We are delighted to announce the first Music History/Theory Workshop of 2012-13. Martha Feldman, Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Music and the Humanities in the College, will present the first chapter of her upcoming book on Wednesday, October 10 at 4:30 PM in Regenstein library (JRL) 264. ABSTRACT: This is the first of six chapters from…

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new year for the Music History/Theory Workshop! Our scheduled speakers for Fall Quarter are as follows: Martha Feldman October 10 Sarah Iker October 24 Meredith Moretz November 7 Hannah McKeown November 28 Gregory Weinstein December 5 The format of the workshop typically consists of 15-30 minutes of…

We’re pleased to announce the final presenter for the 2011-12 academic year in the Music History/Theory Workshop on May 29, at 4:30pm, in the library seminar room, JRL 264. Melanie Zeck, graduate student in music history and theory at the University of Chicago will present work in progress from her dissertation, “The Platonic Ideal and…

We’re pleased to announce the next presenter for the Music History/Theory Workshop on May 22, at 4:30pm, in the library seminar room, JRL 264. Mary Caldwell, graduate student in music history and theory at the University of Chicago will present work in progress from her dissertation. A link to her pre-circulated writing, an excerpt from…

We’re pleased to announce the next presenter for the Music History/Theory Workshop on May 15, 4:30pm, in the library seminar room, JRL 264. Chelsea Burns, graduate student in music history and theory at the University of Chicago will present her recent work on Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. Her pre-circulated paper is available below. ABSTRACT In…

We’re pleased to announce the next presenter for the Music History/Theory Workshop on May 8, 4:30pm, in the library seminar room, JRL 264. Marcy Pierson, graduate student at the University of Chicago, will be presenting recent work from her dissertation proposal. ABSTRACT Modernist composers often display uneasiness toward singing; they seem to be as unwilling…