Friday, January 19, 2024 at 4PM ET in Howard Hanson Hall
“J.S. Bach, Music Theory, and Artificial Intelligence”
Alex Rehding (Harvard University)
Friday, January 26, 2024 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
“Cantonese Opera Aria: Considering an American Soundtrack of the Roaring Twenties”
Nancy Rao (Rutgers University)
Friday, February 2, 2024 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
“African Art Music and the Challenge of Postcolonial Composition”
Kofi Agawu (CUNY)
Friday, February 16, 2024 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
“A Curricular Balancing Act: Diversity and Practicality”
Melissa Hoag (Oakland University)
Friday, February 23, 2024 at 10:30 AM ET in MHS 1
“Composing (with) Theories of Acoustics and Pitch Perception After 1950”
Noah Kahrs (Eastman School of Music)
Dissertation Defense
Friday, February 23, 2024 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
“Heavenly Music as Public Music Theory“
J. Daniel Jenkins (University of South Carolina)
Wednesday February 28, 2024 at 9AM ET in ESM 305
“Form and Narrative in Kollywood Film Music”
Hanisha Kulothparan (Eastman School of Music)
Dissertation Proposal Defense
Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 4PM ET in Howard Hanson Hall
“Theorizing Phrase Structure in Guqin Music”
Ruixue Hu (Eastman School of Music)
**Winner of the 2023 Presser Award
Friday, March 1, 2024 at 2 PM in MC 320
“Applying Analytical Approaches to Contemporary Black Gospel Music”
M. Jerome Bell (Eastman School of Music)
Dissertation Proposal Defense
Friday, March 1, 2024 at 4PM ET in Howard Hanson Hall
“George Perle’s Modal, Tonal, and Dissonant Practice”
Phil Stoecker (Hofstra University)
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 9:30 AM ET in MSH 1
“Intimacy and Middleness in Post-Millenial Pop Music”
David Falterman
Dissertation Defense
Friday, March 22, 2024 at 4PM ET in Howard Hanson Hall
Conference Paper Run-Throughs
Zekai Liu, Maeve Gillen, Ryan H. Jones, Jacob Eichhorn, Hanisha Kulothparan
Friday, March 29, 2024 at 4PM ET in Howard Hanson Hall
“New Music and the Politics of Japaneseness in Yano Akiko’s ‘Tsugaru Tour'”
Toru Momii (Harvard University)
Friday, April 12, 2024 at 4PM ET in Howard Hanson Hall
“Florence Price’s Dream Variations”
Rachel Lumsden (Florida State University)
Friday, April 19, 2024 at 4PM ET in Howard Hanson Hall
Janet Schmalfeldt (Tufts University)
Friday, May 3, 2024 at 4PM ET in Howard Hanson Hall
Undergraduate Thesis Presentations