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Eastman Theory Colloquium

Upcoming Events:

2012-13 Schedule:

Friday, September 28, 2012, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

 

 

Past Events

2011-12 Schedule:

Friday, May 4, 2012, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Jubin Matloubieh: Undergraduate senior thesis presentation

Friday, April 13, 2012, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 305

Friday, March 30, 2012, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 305

  • Arved Ashby (OSU): “Revisiting the Attributive-Descriptive Duality in Music Discussion and Analysis”

Friday, March 23, 2012, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 305

  • Steven Rings (University of Chicago): “Quale and Chroma Revisited”
  • The subject matter will be related to Tonality and Transformation (Oxford University Press, 2011), with some reference to David Temperley’s work on descriptive vs. suggestive music theories.

Friday, March 2, 2012, 2:00 pm, Hatch Hall

  • Danuta Mirka (U of Southampton): “Between Eyes and Ears, Music Theory Old and New: Cognitive Components of Eighteenth-Century Music Theory”

Thursday, March 1, 2012, 2:00-3:30 pm, Room A902

Danuta Mirka (U of Southampton): “Absent Cadences”Friday, February 24, 2012, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Critical forum on Dmitri Tymoczko, A Geometry of Music and Steven Rings, Tonality and Transformation. Organized by Dave Headlam and Bob Hasegawa. Link to colloquium readings.

Friday, February 17, 2012, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

Friday, February 10, 2012, 3:35 pm, Room ESM 320

Friday, January 27, 2012, 4:00 pm, Room MSH 1

  • Interview Weekend Colloquium: Discussion of Ravel’s “Oiseaux tristes” led by Bob Hasegawa

Friday, December 9, 2011, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Christopher Doll (Rutgers): ”What’s in a Numeral?: Pentatonicism versus Diatonicism in Popular Music”
  • Abstract: Popular music of the rock era, from roughly the 1950s to the present,
    speaks a creole of diatonicism and pentatonicism that resists theoretical
    constructs designed with only the former in mind. This paper addresses
    some of the assorted theoretical and practical issues that attend this
    sort of musical combination, drawing on several musical examples
    representing various popular styles from the last sixty years.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 4:30 pm, Ciminelli Lounge

  • Steven Stucky (Cornell): “Modernism and the ‘Main Stream’: Another Look”
  • Host: Lisa Jakelski
  • This event will be held in association with the departments of composition and musicology.

Friday, November 4, 2010, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • SMT round-up: Join us for an information-sharing session about this year’s Society for Music Theory conference in Minneapolis.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Special event: A day of dialogue and virtuosity focusing on the music of Frédéric Chopin
Click here for more information.Monday, October 24, 2011, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 305

Friday, October 14, 2011, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Jeremiah Goyette (ESM): “‘Pumping’ the All-Interval Tetrachords: Algorithms for Generating the Z-Related Sets”
  • James Sullivan (ESM): “Constructing a Voice-Leading Metric for Chord Space”

Friday, October 7, 2011, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Nathan Burggraff (ESM): “Blending Serialism with Just Intonation:  Ben Johnston’s Third String Quartet”

Friday, September 30, 2011, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Seth Monahan (ESM): “Action and Agency Revisited”
  • William Marvin (ESM): “The Reprise Constraint: Reconsidering Schenkerian Interruption”

Friday, September 9, 2011, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Conference Proposal Workshop
 

2010-11 Schedule:

Friday, May 6, 2011, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

Undergraduate thesis presentations

  • Phil LoPinto
  • Lauralie Pow
  • Tabb Dendy

Friday, April 1, 2011, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 404

  • Roundtable discussion on 19th-century opera: Celia Applegate, Melina Esse, Ralph Locke, and William Marvin

Friday, March 25, 2011, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • William Marvin (ESM): “‘Und so weiter‘: Schenker, Sonata Theory, and The Problem of the Recapitulation”
  • Robert Gauldin(ESM): “Quaerendo Invenietis: Patrick Gower’s Music for the Sherlock Holmes Television Series”

Friday, March 18, 2011, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 404

  • Philip Rupprecht (Duke Univ.): “Minimal Modern in the 1970s: form, process, and duration in Colin Matthews and Oliver Knussen”

Friday, February 18, 2011, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Gro Shetelig (Norwegian Academy of Music): “The minor second, not so minor after all: Some aspects of microtonality and microtonal ear-training for singers”

Friday, February 11, 2011, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Samantha Inman (ESM): “Norms, Types, and the Davidsbündler: Schumann’s Public and Private Dialogues with the Sonata Tradition”
  • Nathan Fleshner (ESM): “The Diatonic System and Its Discontents: Schenker, Freud, and Die Wege zum Glück“

Friday, January 28, 2010, 4:00 pm, Room ESM 404

  • Interview Weekend; Graduate symposium led by Robert Hasegawa:
    Analysis of Faure’s song “La lune blanche luit dans les bois”

Friday, November 19, 2010, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 305

  • Yayoi Uno Everett (Emory University): “Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater (2006): Voicing Trauma, Voicing Desire”

Friday, November 12, 2010, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • SMT round-up: Join us for an information-sharing session about this year’s Society for Music Theory conference in Indianapolis

Friday, October 29, 2010, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Dariusz Terefenko: “The Passacaglia: A Primer for Teaching Baroque Improvisation”
  • Dave Headlam: “Improvising with Perle Knets”

Friday, October 15, 2010, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Elizabeth W. Marvin: “Does Absolute Pitch Require Musical Training? Implicit Learning and Pitch Memory in Musicians and Nonmusicians”

Friday, September 24, 2010, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Informational meeting with graduate students and faculty
 

2009-10 Schedule:

Friday, May 7, 2010, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

Undergraduate thesis presentations, Day 2:

  • Daniel Cox: “Ametrical Technical: Difficulties of Entrainment in Metal Subgenres”
  • Calvin Peck: “Russian Theoretical Foundations in Shostakovich’s Music: A Historical Approach to Shostakovich’s Harmonic Language “
  • Paul Child: “Rhythmic and Metric Structures in Four Brahms Songs”

Friday, April 30, 2010, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

Undergraduate thesis presentations, Day 1:

  • Rosa Abrahams: “The Value of Listening Critically: A New Approach to Elementary Theory Pedagogy”
  • Kurtis Gruters: “A Probabilistic Model for Cross-Cultural Melody Dissociation”

Friday, April 16, 2010, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Miguel Ribeiro-Pereira (Professor, Universidade Católica and IPP, Porto, Portugal and Visiting Fellow, Yale University):
    “Modulatory Space and Tonal Movement: A New Musical Paradigm”

Friday, April 2, 2010, 12:00 pm, Director’s Meeting Room, Student Living Center

  • Joshua Mailman: “Temporal Dynamic Form in Music: Atonal, Tonal, and Other”

Friday, April 2, 2010, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • José Oliveira Martins, Holly Watkins, and Robert Hasegawa: Colloquium on Musical Space

Thursday, April 1, 2010, 4:30 pm, Room ESM 404

  • Peter Schmelz (Washington University, St. Louis): “Schnittke and the Popular”
    Co-sponsored with Departments of Musicology and Humanities

Friday, March 19, 2010, 3:40 pm, Room ESM 305

  • Visiting Professor Ruth Tatlow: “New Methods for Bach through Historically Informed Theory (HIT)”

Friday, February 12, 2010, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

In association with the Eastman Piano Department:

  • Visiting Professors Gordon Sly and Sheryl Iott:
    “Performance-Analysis Perspectives on Haydn’s late F-minor Piano Variations”

Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:00 pm, Room ESM 404

  • Interview Weekend; Graduate symposium led by Robert Hasegawa:
    Analysis of Schoenberg’s song “Traumleben,” op. 6/1

Friday, November 20, 2009, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 305

  • Visiting Professor Peter Schubert: “Is Fux necessary? Or, why we have to stop teaching species counterpoint the way we do”

Friday, November 13, 2009, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Chris Stover: “Interpenetrating Calls and Responses: The Dialogic Nature of Rumba”

Friday, November 6, 2009, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • SMT round-up: Join us for an information-sharing session about this year’s Society for Music Theory conference in Montreal

Friday, October 23, 2009, 2:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • John Koslovsky, PhD Thesis Defense: “From Sinn und Wesen to Structural Hearing: The Development of Felix Salzer’s Ideas in Interwar Vienna and Their Transmission in Postwar United States”

Friday, October 16, 2009, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 305

  • Steve Laitz, Bill Marvin, Seth Monahan (moderated by Jonathan Dunsby): Graduate session on “The Modern View of Sonata Form”
    • Download readings from Cadwallader and Darcy

Friday, October 9, 2009, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Stefan Love: “Metrical Dissonance in Bill Evans’s ‘All the Things You Are’”

Friday, September 25, 2009, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Seth Monahan: “Criteria of ‘Success’ and ‘Failure’ in Mahler’s Sonata Recapitulations”

Friday, September 18, 2009, 3:30 pm, Miller Center Room 320 (MC 320)

  • Jenine Lawson Brown: “The Perceptual Attraction of Predominant Chords”

Friday, September 11, 2009, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 305

  • Charles Smith: “The Love of Fundamentals is the Root of All Evil: Alternatives to Harmonic Fundamentalism”
 

2008-09 Schedule:

Friday, March 27, 2009, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Zac Cairns: “Interval Class Succession Graphs in Edison Denisov’s Sonata for Alto Saxophone“

Friday, January 16, 2009, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Cory Bonn: “The Cognitive Science of Piano Performance and Pedagogy”

Friday, November 21, 2008, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 305

  • Marie Rolf: “Debussy’s Rites of Spring”
  • Stephen Zank: “Debussy and Ravel: Irony as Construct”
  • Ralph P. Locke: “Unacknowledged Exoticism in Debussy: The Incidental Music for Le Martyre de St. Sebastien (1911)”

Friday, October 24, 2008, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • John Koslovsky: “Primäre Klangformen, Linearität, oder Auskomponierung?: The analysis of medieval polyphony and the critique of musicology in the early work of Felix Salzer”

Friday, September 26, 2008, 3:30 pm, Room ESM 320

  • Seth Monahan: “The ‘Tristan’ Progression as an Energetic Voice-Leading Paradigm: A Study in Kinetic Displacement Intervals (KDIs)”

 

 

 

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