Upcoming Musicology Events

Thursdays at 4:30 p.m., New Sibley Library 404, unless otherwise indicated

 

12 September 2013

Stephan Prock, New Zealand School of Music

Title TBA

19 September 2013

Joy H. Calico, Vanderbilt University

"Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe"

 

Full Events Listing


New Publications

Watkins book jacket   Holly Watkins, Metaphors of Depth in German Musical Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

 

Roger Freitas, Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Roger Freitas discusses his book on NPR’s Rochester affiliate WXXI.		   Portrait of Castrado

 

Musical Exoticism   Ralph Locke, Ralph Locke, Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections (Cambridge University Press, paperback, 2011).

Ralph Locke discusses his book on NPR’s Rochester affiliate WXXI.
   

Faculty News

Michael Anderson   Michael Alan Anderson has won the 2012 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and will present the discovery of a set of plainchants in honor of Marguerite of Navarre at the 2012 AMS meeting.
     
Corbett Bazler   Corbett Bazler, newly appointed assistant professor in the Music Department at the College of the University of Rochester, presented a paper on Handel at the 2011 AMS meeting.

Michael Anderson   Melina Esse has been granted a research leave for 2012-13 to work on her book, which deals with connections between poetic improvisation and operatic performance in nineteenth-century Italy.

Michael Anderson   Roger Freitas presented a paper on Adelina Patti at the 2012 IMS Congress in Rome.

Michael Anderson   Lisa Jakelski gave a paper on the Warsaw Autumn Festival at the 2012 IMS Congress in Rome.

Michael Anderson   Ellen Koskoff has recently been appointed editor of the journal Ethnomusicology and is awaiting the publication of her collected essays, A Feminist Ethnomusicology.

Michael Anderson   Kim Kowalke is presenting a paper on The Miller’s Son at AMS in New Orleans.

Michael Anderson   Jennifer Kyker has recently published an short article in the American Journal of Public Health.

Michael Anderson   Ralph Locke presented a paper on early musical exoticism at the 2012 IMS meeting (Rome, Italy).

Michael Anderson   Patrick Macey has presented papers in New York, San Diego and Stanford in spring 2013, on topics ranging from carnival songs of Lorenzo de’ Medici to motets by Mouton and Josquin.

Michael Anderson   Honey Meconi prepared the “Hildegard of Bingen” entry for Oxford Bibliographies Online and presented papers at two international conferences in summer 2012.

Michael Anderson   Holly Watkins published an article entitled “Slavoj Žižek: Responding from the Void” in a 2012 issue of Contemporary Music Review devoted to music and philosophy.

Student News

Katherine Hutchings, will present at the upcoming AMS national meeting in New Orleans (2012): “What’s So New about Nova Musica? Johannes Ciconia and Early Quattrocento Theories of Imitation”


A number of PhD graduates will present papers and otherwise formally participate at the AMS national meeting in New Orleans (2012):

Papers

  • Alexander Stefaniak (Washington University in St. Louis), “Schumann, Virtuosity, and the Rhetoric of the Sublime”
  • Sylvia Alajaji (Franklin and Marshall College), “‘We’ll Make Our History’: Performing the Past, Producing the Present in the West Bank”
  • Su Yin Mak (Chinese University of Hong Kong), “Topical Uses of Opera in Television Commercials: A Cross-Cultural Comparison"

Discussion participants, respondents, and chairs

  • Amy Wlodarski (Dickinson College)—respondent for Oral History and Cold War Studies: Methodological Perspectives and Notes from the Field
  • Jennifer Ronyak (University of Texas at Arlington)—chair for The Lied in Performance: Text and Context
  • Marjorie Roth (Nazareth College)—participant in The Music Course in General Education: Eliciting Student Enthusiasm and Investment (sponsored by the AMS and SEM Pedagogy Study Groups)
  • Tamara Levitz (University of California, Los Angeles)—chair for and participant in Envisioning a “Relational Musicology”: A Dialogue with Georgina Born

Several recent graduates have accepted academic positions or have changed positions:

  • Alexander Stefaniak, assistant professor (tenure-track), Washington University in St. Louis
  • Jennifer Ronyak, assistant professor (tenure-track), University of Texas, Arlington
  • Maria Cristina Fava, assistant professor (one year), Michigan State University
  • Matthew Morrow, instructor (one year), Eastman School of Music
  • Kimberly Hannon Teal, instructor (one year), Eastman School of Music
  • Marie Sumner Lott moved from Pennsylvania State University to Georgia State University (assistant professor, tenure-track)
  • Seth Brodsky moved from Yale University to the University of Chicago (assistant professor, tenure-track)

Ayden Adler became Senior Vice President of Musician Advancement and Dean at the New World Symphony

Recent Dissertations