Musicology Events

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Musicology Symposia

Thursdays at 4:30 pm, New Sibley Library 404

Sept. 17, 2009
Prof. Deborah Wong
University of California,Riverside:
“Don't Fence Me In: Popular Music Studies and Neoliberalism”

Oct. 29, 2009
Prof. R. Larry Todd, Duke University
“Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn”

Feb. 25, 2010
Carolyn Abbate, University of
Pennsylvania
“The Damnation of Mignon”

March or April, 2010
Prof. Suzanne Cusick, New York University
TBA

Co-Sponsored Events

Oct. 29-Nov. 1, 2009:
EROI Festival, with the Eastman Organ Department
Mendelssohn and the Contrapuntal Tradition
EROI Website

March 19-21, 2009:
Symposium, with the Eastman Humanities Dept.
Silent Film Sound

New Publications

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.

Ralph Locke, Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

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

Faculty News

Michael Anderson: paper presentation, Medieval-Renaissance Conference in Utrecht

Melina Esse: published an article in Current Musicology

Roger Freitas: organized the meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

Lisa Jakelski: presents a paper at the AMS annual meeting in Philadelphia

Ellen Koskoff: research in Bali; paper presentation SEM Mexico City

Kim Kowalke: has joined several new editorial boards

Ralph Locke: presents a paper at the AMS annual meeting in Philadelphia

Patrick Macey: paper presentation, International Josquin Conference, Middelburg, The Netherlands

Honey Meconi: paper presentation, Medieval-Renaissance Conference in Utrecht

Holly Watkins: presents a paper at the AMS annual meeting in Philadelphia

Dan Zager: NEH grant to digitize non-copyrighted scores in Sibley Music Library

Student News

Two Eastman Musicology Students present papers at AMS national meeting in Philadelphia, Nov. 2009.

Eastman Students present papers at the AMS Chapter Meeting, April 2009.

Recent hires for tenure-track positions

• Martin Nedbal, University of Arkansas
• Sylvia Alajaji, Franklin and Marshall College
• Marie Sumner Lott, Pennsylvania State

Recently defended dissertations

• Katherine Axtell, Genesis of Show Boat

• Alexander Dean, 17th-c. Guitar Music and Song
• Martin Nedbal, Viennese Singspiel and Moralit
• Marie Sumner Lott, 19th-c. Chamber Music
• Adriana Martinez Figueroa, Musical Nationalism in Mexico and the United States

Recent Dissertations