Musicology Events

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Musicology Symposia

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

 

Sept. 15, 2011

Eric Drott, University of Texas at Austin

"Genre, Identity, Politics"

Oct. 13, 2011

David Giovannoni, founder of First Sounds

"Humanity's First Recordings of Its Own Voice"

Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, 3:30 p.m., ESM 305

Gunther Schuller

A discussion of the Beethoven Fifth chapter in his book, The Compleat Conductor

Oct. 27, 2011

AMS Preview 1:

Patrick Macey, "Henricus Isaac and Carnival Songs on Texts by Lorenzo de' Medici"

Ralph P. Locke, "Musical Exoticism 1500–1750: Some Methodological Considerations and Case Studies"

Nov. 3, 2011

AMS Preview 2:

Holly Watkins, "The Economics of Musical Space"

Lisa Jakelski, "New Sound, New Ears: Listening at the Warsaw Autumn in the Early 1960s"

Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, 4:30 p.m., Ciminelli Formal Lounge

Steven Stucky, Cornell University

"Modernism and the 'Main Stream': Another Look"

Feb. 16, 2012

Eliot Bates, Cornell University

"Engineering Turkish Music: Latency, Auditory Images, and Sensoriums of the Studio"

Mar. 1, 2012

Peter Hoesing, Florida State University

"Sound Medicine: the Performance of Healing in Post-Colonial Uganda"

Mar. 8, 2012

Nancy Toff, Oxford University Press

"Nancy Drew Meets Georges Barrère: Adventures in the Archives"

Co-sponsored with the Flute Department

Mar. 22, 2012

Jann Pasler, University of California, San Diego

"Musical Hybridity in Flux: Representing Race, Colonial Policy, and Modernity in French North Africa, 1860s-1930s"

Cosponsored with the Eastman Committee on Diversity

Mar. 29, 2012

Kate van Orden, University of California, Berkeley

"Musica Transalpina: Janequin and the French in Italy"

Apr. 12, 2012

Berthold Hoeckner, University of Chicago

"The Autonomy of (Musical) Affect and Economies of (Cinematic) Emotion"

 

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

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

Faculty News

Michael Anderson   Michael Anderson has a new article on Midsummer rituals and John the Baptist in Early Music History.
     
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 presented a paper on Pacini’s opera Saffo and neoclassicism at the 2011 AMS meeting.

Michael Anderson   Roger Freitas presented a paper on Adelina Patti, performance practice, and the idea of naturalness at the 2011 AMS meeting.

Michael Anderson   Lisa Jakelski presented a paper on the Warsaw Autumn music festival at the 2011 AMS meeting.

Michael Anderson   Ellen Koskoff will publish a book of essays, A Feminist Ethnomusicology: The Koskoff Reader.

Michael Anderson   Jennifer Kyker is a newly appointed assistant professor with a specialty in ethnomusicology.

Michael Anderson   Kim Kowalke had an article on Kurt Weill republished in Opera after 1900.

Michael Anderson   Ralph Locke presented a paper on early musical exoticism at the 2011 AMS meeting.

Michael Anderson   Patrick Macey presented a paper on carnival songs newly attributed to Isaac at the 2011 AMS meeting.

Michael Anderson   Honey Meconi has four new publications, including work on Hildegard and Pierre de la Rue.

Michael Anderson   Holly Watkins presented a paper on musical space at the 2011 AMS meeting.

Michael Anderson   Dan Zager won an NEH grant to digitize non-copyrighted scores in Sibley Music Library

Student News

Three recent PhD graduates are presenting papers or chairing sessions at the AMS National Meeting in San Francisco (November 2011).

Jennifer Ronyak named Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in Music.

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

  • Cindy Kim, " Changing Meanings of Ornamentation in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera"
  • Jennifer Ronyak, " Performing the Lied, Performing the Self: Singing Subjectivity in Germany, 1790-1832"
  • Hannah Mowrey, "The Alamire Manuscripts of Frederick the Wise: Intersections of Music, Art, and Theology"
  • Katherine Axtell, "Maiden Voyage: The Genesis and Reception of Show Boat, 1926-1932"
  • Alexander Dean, "The Five-course Guitar and Seventeenth-century Harmony: Alfabeto and Italian Song"
  • Martin Nedbal, Viennese Singspiel and Mozart
  • Adriana Martinez Figueroa, "Music and the Binational Imagination: The Musical Nationalisms of Mexico and the United States in the Context of the Binational Relationship, 1890-2009"
  • Sylvia Alajaji, "Diasporic Communities and Negotiated Identities: Trauma, Recovery, and the Search for the Armenian Musical Voice"

Recent Dissertations