Friday, April 29, 2022 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
- Nathan McKinstry (Eastman School of Music) – BM Senior Thesis Presentation
Robert Hamilton (Eastman School of Music) – Comps 1B Presentation
Click here for talk titles and abstracts.
Friday, April 22, 2022 | 3:30 to 5PM ET in ESM 305 and on Zoom (link to be distributed via listserv)
- Symposium in Honor of David Headlam
Click here for talk titles and abstracts.Zachary Cairns, ’10E PhD (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
J. Daniel Jenkins, ’07E PhD (University of South Carolina)
Jocelyn Neal, ’02E PhD (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Sam Ng, ’05E PhD (University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music)
Matthew Brown (Eastman School of Music)
Friday, April 15, 2022 | 3:30 to 6PM ET in ESM 305
- Pop Pedagogy Symposium:
Click here for talk titles and abstracts.Alyssa Barna, ’19E PhD (University of Minnesota)
Trevor de Clercq, ’12E PhD (Middle Tennessee State University)
Peter Kaminsky, ’90E PhD (University of Connecticut)
Friday, April 1, 2022 | 4PM ET in ESM 305
- Marc Hannaford (University of Michigan)
Friday, March 25, 2022 | 3:30PM ET in Hatch Recital Hall
- Archival Work and Analysis of Florence Price’s Art Songs:
Stephen Spinelli (Cornell University)
Tamara Acosta (Cornell University and Ithaca College)
Charity Lofthouse (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Sarah Marlowe (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester)
Featuring:
Kayla Sconiers, soprano
Sirui Wang, piano
**This session is part of a day-long symposium dedicated to the life and works of Florence Price, and all are invited to attend. The full symposium schedule can be found here.
Friday, March 18, 2022 | 3:30 to 5PM ET on Zoom (link to be distributed via listserv)
- Closing the Gender Gap III: Open-Access Analysis of Amy Beach’s Gaelic Symphony
This event is hosted by Elizabeth Marvin (Eastman School of Music), Sarah Marlowe (Eastman School of Music), and Mark Gotham (TU Dortmund University). During the session, participants will work together to provide a thematic and motivic analysis of Amy Beach’s Gaelic Symphony. Work will be done in breakout groups over Zoom; participants will be emailed their assigned breakout group, group leader, symphony movement, and the Zoom link by the middle of spring break. Please make sure to listen to your assigned movement–paying special attention to themes and motives–before the session. Register here by March 4, 2022:
https://forms.gle/Com1ZzY41E8DZPnZ9.
Saturday, February 26, 2022 | 2 to 5PM ET in Ciminelli Formal Lounge
- Music Cognition Symposium:
Daphne Tan, ’13E PhD (University of Toronto)
Jenine Brown, ’14E PhD (Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University)
Friday, February 25, 2022 | 4 to 5:30PM ET in ESM 305
Followed by Q&A about the history of Eastman’s theory department
Friday, January 21, 2022 at 4PM ET on Zoom (link to be distributed via listserv)
- Rachel Roberts (Eastman School of Music):
“Navigating Career Trajectories within Higher Education”
Rachel Roberts, Associate Professor of Music Leadership and Director of the Institute for Music Leadership, will lead an interactive seminar discussing approaches to developing careers in higher education. Topics that will be discussed include: the transition from graduate students to faculty members; evaluating and applying for open positions; understanding the basics of salary negotiations; and contributing in your role beyond the classroom. Bring your questions, too! There will be time for Q&A following this discussion. In advance, you can also listen to an Eastman IML Podcast about salary negotiations and the gender wage gap.
Friday, December 3, 2021, 2:40-3:40PM ET in ESM 305
- Theory Search Talk – Candidate 3
Monday, November 29, 2021, 2:40-3:40PM ET in ESM 320
- Theory Search Talk – Candidate 2
Friday, November 19, 2021, 2:40-3:40PM ET in ESM 305
- Theory Search Talk – Candidate 1
Friday, November 12, 2021 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
- SMT Annual Meeting Discussion
Friday, October 29, 2021 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
- Conference Proposal Review Session
Friday, October 22, 2021 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
- SMT Annual Meeting Preview Session
Chaired by David Temperley
“Syncopation and Syllabic Stress in 20th-Century Popular Music” (Joseph VanderStel and David Temperley)
“‘All The Small Things’: Microtiming in Punk Music” (Matt Chiu and Andrew Blake)
Friday, October 15, 2021 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
Chaired by Elizabeth Marvin
Friday, October 15, 2021 at 1:30PM ET in ESM 404
- Braxton Shelley (Yale University): Informal Q&A with Eastman students on the topics of music theory pedagogy, expanding the canon, and reimagining curricula in light of equity concerns
Led by Elizabeth Marvin and Stephanie Venturino
Friday, October 1, 2021 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
Led by Ben Baker, Jeff Campbell, Dariusz Terefenko, and Stephanie Tateiwa
The second meeting of our two-part jazz workshop will focus on skills such as lead sheet realization. Participants will be given an assignment to prepare in advance of this session and are invited to workshop their solutions with the faculty presenters, who will also present their own interpretations.
Friday, September 24, 2021 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
Led by Ben Baker, Jeff Campbell, and Dariusz Terefenko
This first meeting of our two-part jazz workshop will focus on core curricula. Our presenters will provide an overview of topics covered in the jazz theory curriculum and highlight synergies with topics taught in the core theory sequence.
Friday, September 17, 2021 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
Chaired by John Covach
Friday, September 10, 2021 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
- Professional Development Breakout Session: CVs and Job Interviews
Chaired by Elizabeth Marvin and Stephanie Venturino with assistance from Ben Baker, Zachary Bernstein, William Marvin, and Sarah Marlowe
Friday, September 3, 2021 at 4PM ET in ESM 305
- Theory Graduate Studies Welcome and Q&A
Friday, February 19, 2021 from 4-5:30PM ET on Zoom
- Guest Panel: Michael Buchler (Florida State University), Robert Hasegawa (McGill University), Judith Lochhead (Stony Brook University)
Chaired by Zachary Bernstein
This panel will examine issues of diversity in post-tonal theory pedagogy. Three distinguished scholars and teachers of post-tonal music will share materials and discuss how they have broadened the traditional post-tonal theory curriculum to feature music and topics often excluded—including music by women and underrepresented minorities. The place of traditional post-tonal methodologies, including set theory, will be reexamined. Short papers by the three panelists will be followed by extensive discussion.
Friday, February 26, 2021 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Guest Presentation: Julian Horton (Durham University)
“Beethoven’s Error? The Modulating Ritornello and the Type 5 Sonata in the Post-Classical Piano Concerto”
Chaired by William Marvin
Friday, March 5, 2021 from 4-5:30PM ET on Zoom
- Presentation/Workshop: Mark Gotham (Universität des Saarlandes) with Betsy Marvin (Eastman School of Music) and Sarah Marlowe (Eastman School of Music)
Analysis-a-Thon: Analyzing Music by Women
Chaired by Betsy Marvin
Friday, March 19, 2021 from 4-5:30PM ET on Zoom
- Guest Presentation: Philip Ewell (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center)
“How We Got Here, Where To Next: Examining Assimilationism in American Music Studies”
Chaired by Betsy Marvin
Friday, March 26, 2021 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Comprehensive Exam Part 1B Presentation: Lauren Irschick (Eastman School of Music)
“The Half-Note Level in Early-Eighteenth Century Instrumental Music”
Chaired by Henry Klumpenhouwer
Friday, April 9, 2021 from 4-5:30PM ET on Zoom
- Forum on Publishing: Norm Hirschy (Oxford University Press) with ESM faculty members Zachary Bernstein, John Covach, and Jonathan Dunsby
Chaired by Stephanie Venturino
Friday, April 23, 2021 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Faculty Presentation: Sarah Marlowe (Eastman School of Music)
“Contextualizing Eleonora Fedosova’s Theory of лад [lād] in the Music of Dmitri Shostakovich”
Chaired by William Marvin
Friday, April 30, 2021 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
Friday, May 7, 2021 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Forum on Work-Life Balance and Scholarly Productivity: Byron Almén, PhD, MA, LPC, NCC
Chaired by Stephanie Venturino
Friday, May 7, 2021 from 3-4PM ET on Zoom
- Comprehensive Exam Part 1B Presentation: Christian Birkness (Eastman School of Music)
“Proposing a Historically-Oriented Diminution Curriculum for Baroque Counterpoint Instruction”
Friday, May 7, 2021 from 5:15-6:15PM ET on Zoom
- Senior Thesis Presentation: Angeni Wang (Eastman School of Music)
“An Exploration of Unity in Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28”
- Senior Thesis Presentation: K. Lee Morris (Eastman School of Music)
“The Introduction as Source Material: Form and Motive in the first movement of Chausson’s Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 8”
Friday, February 12, 2021 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Faculty Presentation: David Temperley (Eastman School of Music)
“The Origins of Syncopation in American Popular Music”
Friday, December 11th, 2020 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Guest Speaker: Robert Hasegawa (McGill University)
Compositional Constraints and Creative Process in Solo Works by George Benjamin
Chaired by Jonathan Dunsby
Friday, December 4th, 2020 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Group Discussion: AMS/SMT 2020
Moderated by Zachary Bernstein and Orit Hilewicz
Friday, November 20th, 2020 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Guest Speaker: Jonathan Cross (University of Oxford)
Landscapes of Ruin: Tristan Murail’s Winter Fragments
Chaired by Jonathan Dunsby
Friday, November 6th, 2020 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Conference proposal workshop
Hosted by Ben Baker, Zachary Bernstein, and David Temperley
Friday, October 16th, 2020 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Career Development – Session II
Friday, October 9th, 2020 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Career Development – Session I
Friday, October 2nd, 2020 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Faculty Presentation: Matthew Brown and Robert Wason
Music Theory, Larger Issues to Which It May Relate, and an Introduction to Our Book, Heinrich Schenker’s Conception of Harmony
Chaired by Bill Marvin
Friday, September 25th, 2020 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Guest Speaker: Carmel Raz (Max Planck Institute)
Attending to Attention in Descartes’s Musicae Compendium (1618 / 1650)
Hosted by Henry Klumpenhouwer
Friday, September 18th, 2020 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Presentation/Discussion: Teaching Music Theory and Aural Skills Online
Hosted by Elizabeth West Marvin and Stephanie Venturino
Friday, September 11th, 2020 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Graduate Town Hall: New student and faculty introductions, Q&A sessions with theory faculty and returning students, and Intégral overview from co-editors
Hosted by Jonathan Dunsby and Stephanie Venturino
Friday, September 4th, 2020 from 4-5PM ET on Zoom
- Group Discussion: Antiracism and Diversifying Music Theory
Hosted by Sam Reenan and David Temperley
Friday, May 1st, 2020 at 4pm, on Zoom
Friday, April 24th, 2020 at 4pm, on Zoom
Friday, February 14, 2020 at 4pm, ESM 305
- Matt Chiu “Putting the Math in Math Rock”
- John Heilig “Interpreting Harmony through Gesture in the Chromatic Music of Anton Webern”
- Eron Smith “Prosodic Dissonance in Pop Music”
Friday, February 7, 2020 at 4pm, ESM 305
Friday, January 31, 2020 at 4pm, ESM 305
Friday, January 24, 2020 at 4pm, ESM 305
Friday, January 17, 2020 at 4pm, ESM 305
Friday, December 13, 2020 at 3:30pm, ESM 209
Sam Reenan (Eastman School of Music): Dissertation Proposal defense, “Problems of Aesthetics, Coherence, and Large-Scale Form in Germanic Music, 1905–15”
Friday, November 22, 2019 at 4pm, ESM 305
- Conference proposal workshop
Friday, November 15, 2019 at 4pm, ESM 305
Friday, October 25, 2019 at 4pm, ESM 305
Friday, October 18, 2019 at 4pm, ESM 305
- Trevor Haughton (Eastman School of Music): Dissertation Proposal Defense
- Christian Sancto (University of Rochester): “Towards an Absent Music: Sound Installation ‘After Auschwitz'”
Friday, October 4, 2019 at 4:30pm, ESM 305
September 27–29, 2019 at the University of Rochester’s River Campus
Friday, September 27, 2019 at 4pm, ESM 305
Friday, September 20, 2019 at 4pm, ESM 305
Friday, September 13, 2019 at 3:30pm in Hatch Recital Hall
- John Link and Mari Asakawa: Lecture Recital
Friday, September 6, 2019 at 4pm, ESM 305
- Workshop on campus resources
Friday, April 12, 2019 at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
Friday, April 19, 2019 at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Lightning Talks presented by students and faculty of the theory department
Friday, April 26, 2019 at 1:30pm, Room A707
- Joseph VanderStel (Eastman School of Music): “The Evolution of Syncopation in 20th-Century Popular Music”
- PhD proposal, public presentation
Friday, May 3, 2019, at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Job Search Workshop: CVs and Cover Letters
Friday, April 19, 2019 at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Lightning Talks presented by students and faculty of the theory department
Friday, April 26, 2019 at 1:30pm, Room A707
- Joseph VanderStel (Eastman School of Music): “The Evolution of Syncopation in 20th-Century Popular Music”
- PhD proposal, public presentation
Friday, May 3, 2019, at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Job Search Workshop: CVs and Cover Letters
Friday, March 22, 2019 at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
Friday, March 29, 2019 at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
Friday, March 1, 2019 at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
Friday, February 8, 2019 at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
Friday, November 30, 2018 at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Matthew Brown and Robert Wason (Eastman School of Music): “Reading Heinrich Schenker’s Theory of Harmony”
Friday, November 30, 2018 at 7pm, Howard Hanson Hall
- Music Theory Department Recital
Friday, December 7, 2018 at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Stephanie Venturino (Eastman School of Music): “Beyond the Rhine: Harmonic Dualism in Vincent d’Indy’s ‘Cours de composition musicale’ (1902)”
Friday, November 16, 2018
- Conference Proposal Review Session, 2pm in ESM 404
- Led by Professors Burns, Hilewicz, and Temperley
- Charles Wuorinen Symposium, 3:30pm in ESM 305
- Details on Wuorinen’s visit can be found here.
Friday, November 9, 2018 at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- SMT San Antonio, post-conference discussion
- Led by Professors Bernstein and Hilewicz
Friday, October 26, 2018 at 3:30pm in Hatch Recital Hall
- David Huron (The Ohio State University): “The Sounds of Sadness”
- Lecture 1 of 3 in Huron’s “Gloomy Sundays, Wicked Games, and Broken Hearts: The Science of Sad Sounds” series. Details for lectures 2 and 3 can be found at this link
Friday, October 19, 2018 at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
Friday, October 12, 2018 at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
Friday, October 5, 2018 at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
Friday, September 28, 2018 at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
Friday, September 21, 2018 at 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
Friday, May 4, 2018, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Christian Birkness, BM Theory Presentation: “A Modern Traditionalist: A Schenkerian Approach to the Music of Percy Grainger”
- Eron Smith, MA Theory Presentation: “Five and Three: Toward Middleground Prototypes for Mozart’s First-Movement Concerto Forms”
Monday, May 7, 2018, 2:00pm, Room ESM 305
- Catrina Kim, PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: “The Romantic Introduction”
Friday, April 20, 2018, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Dr. Joel Lester (Professor Emeritus, CUNY): “Words, Words, Words”
Friday, April 6, 2018, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Ivan Tan: “‘Total Mass Retain’: Groove in Progressive Rock”
- Dave Keep and Dan Ketter: “Analysis, Intuition, and Performance: Brahms’s Cello Sonata in E minor, op. 38, II. Allegretto quasi Minuetto – Trio”
Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 11:00am, Room ESM 209
- Owen Belcher, PhD Dissertation Defense: “Analytical Studies of Selected Cantatas by J.S. Bach”
Friday, March 23, 2018, 10:00am, Conference Room D, Humanities Center, Rush Rhees Library (River Campus)
- Sam Bivens, PhD Dissertation Defense: “Form and Forms in Wagner’s Die Walküre”
Friday, March 30, 2018, 10:00am, Room ESM 320
- James Sullivan, PhD Dissertation Defense: “Meter, Melodic Parallelism, and Metric Manipulation in Post-Tonal Music”
Friday, March 30, 2018, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Dr. John Roeder (University of British Columbia): “Comparing Musical Cycles Across the World”
Friday, March 5, 2018, 1:30pm, Room MC 2
- Alyssa Barna, PhD Proposal Defense: “Examining Contrast in Rock and Popular Music”
Friday, March 2, 2018, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Dr. John Covach (Eastman and the University of Rochester): “Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, and the Music-Structural Potential in Performance”
Friday, February 23, 2018, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Dr. Danny Jenkins (University of South Carolina): “What I Learned from Schoenberg, and Where to Go from Here”
Friday, January 26, 2018, 4:00pm, Room ESM 305 (Note: unusual time)
- PhD Interview Weekend Colloquium
Friday, February 2, 2018, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Dr. Jonathan Dunsby (Eastman): “What We Can Hear, and Why: Onset Asynchrony in Western Art Music”
Friday, February 9, 2018, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Faculty/Student Meeting: Comprehensive Exam Part II
Friday, December 8, 2017, 2:30pm, Messinger Hall 1 (the “fishbowl”)
- Dr. Ellie Hisama (Professor of Music, Columbia University): “‘A Complex Dissonant Veil of Sound’: Influence and Independence in Ruth Crawford’s Chants for Women’s Chorus (1930)”
Friday, December 1, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Jon Lin Chua (Eastman), Bachelor of Music Presentation: “Timbral Counterpoint: An Analysis of the O du lieber Augustin passage in Helmut Lachenmann’s Mouvement (-vor der Erstarrung)”
Monday, October 23, 2017, 2:00pm, Room ESM 404
- Dr. Dan Ketter (Eastman), PhD dissertation proposal defense: “Heinrich Schenker’s Essential Voice: Tracing the Concept of an Essential Voice in J.S. Bach’s Works for Solo Melodic Instruments”
Friday, October 27, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Dr. Orit Hilewicz (Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Eastman): “Schoenberg’s Cinematographic Blueprint: A Programmatic Analysis of Begeitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene“
Friday, November 17, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Post-SMT Discussion (moderated by Prof. Dave Headlam)
Friday, October 20, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- David Keep (Eastman), PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: “Re-Creativity in Brahms’s Opp. 80-90”
Friday, October 6, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Dr. Eytan Agmon (Professor of Music, Bar-Ilan University, Israel): “The Webern in Mozart: Systems of Chromatic Harmony and Their Twelve-Tone Content”
*Tuesday, October 10, 3:30pm, Room ESM 404 [Note: irregular day and room]*
- Dr. Jocelyn Neal (Gordon and Golden Gray Distinguished Term Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): “For Want of a V Chord: Country-Soul Covers and the Musical Politics of Race”
Friday, September 29, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Conference Proposal Review Session (Profs. Hilewicz, Bill Marvin, Temperley, faculty moderators)
Friday, September 22, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Presentation on disability accommodations (Ms. Britt Semenow, Dr. John Hain)
Friday, September 15, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Beginning-of-year Q&A (Profs. Betsy Marvin, Headlam, Klumpenhouwer, Dean Rolf)
Friday, September 8, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Derek Remes (Eastman): Presser Presentation
Friday, May 5, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 404
- Senior Undergraduate Music Theory Presentations followed by department reception honoring departing undergraduate and graduate theory students
Friday, April 21, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Aaron Grant (Eastman), PhD dissertation proposal: “Schubert’s Three-Key Expositions”
Friday, April 14, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Anna Fulton (Eastman), PhD dissertation proposal: “Other Voices: Listening to Musical (Dis)embodiment”
Friday, March 31, 2017, 3:30pm, Messinger Hall 1
- Nicole Biamonte (Associate Professor of Music Theory, McGill University): “Rhythmic Functions in Pop-Rock Music”
Friday, April 7, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Mieko Kanno (Professor of Artistic and Doctoral Studies, Sibelius Academy): “Performance as Research Method”
Thursday, March 23, 2017, 5:30pm, OSL 101
- Ludwig Holtmeier (Professor, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg): “Towards a Theory of Arabic Numeral Analysis”
Friday, March 24, 2017, 10:30am, ESM 514
- MTSNYS presentations (Alan Reese and David Keep)
Friday, March 24, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Michael Klein (Professor of Music Theory and Chair of the Department of Music Studies, Temple University): “Impossible Narration in Chopin’s Ballade in G minor”
Friday, March 10, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- MTSNYS presentations (Derek Remes and Sam Reenan)
Friday, March 3, 2017, 2:00pm, Hatch Hall
- Liszt Symposium Paper Session
Friday, February 17, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- All About Job Interviews: a faculty and student panel (Zachary Bernstein, Amy Fleming, Seth Monahan)
Friday, February 10, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Betsy Marvin (Professor of Music Theory and Department Chair, Eastman): “What I Know Now: Reflections on Music Theory Pedagogy”
Friday, January 27, 2017, 4:00pm, Room ESM 305 (Note: This week’s colloquium will begin at 4pm!)
- Eastman Theory Interview Weekend: Meeting Prospective Theory Students
Friday, January 20, 2017, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Sam Bivens (Eastman): Presser Presentation
Friday, November 18, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Sam Bivens (Eastman), PhD dissertation proposal: “New Approaches to Form in Wagner’s Die Walküre“
Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 4:00pm, Room Annex 710
- Alan Reese (Eastman), PhD dissertation proposal: Title TBA
Friday, November 11, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Society of Music Theory Annual Meeting review session (led by Prof. Dave Headlam)
Friday, October 28, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Daniel Harrison (Allen Forte Professor of Music Theory, Yale University): “Updating Pieces of Tradition”
Friday, October 14, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Owen Belcher (Eastman), PhD dissertation proposal: “Interpreting the Cantatas of J.S. Bach”
Friday, October 7, 2016, 3:30pm, Room MSH 1 (the “fishbowl”)
- Kyle Adams (Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Music Theory, Indiana University at Bloomington): “Rap Music on Trial”
Friday, September 30, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Robert Hatten (Professor of Music Theory, University of Texas at Austin): “A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Music”
Friday, September 23, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Conference Proposal Review Session (Profs. Zachary Bernstein, Dave Headlam, Davy Temperley)
Friday, September 16, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- CV and Cover Letter Preparation and Review Session (Profs. Chris Brody, Henry Klumpenhouwer, Seth Monahan)
Friday, September 2, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Graduate Theory Program Information Session (Profs. Betsy Marvin, Seth Monahan, David Headlam, and Henry Klumpenhouwer)
Friday, May 6, 2015, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Amy Fleming (Eastman), PhD dissertation proposal: “A Thematic and Chronological Analysis of George Crumb’s ‘Cycle of Cycles'”
- Undergraduate senior thesis presentations: Braden Maxwell and Julian Garvue
Friday, April 29, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- A Celebration of Milton Babbitt’s Centennial with Prof. Joseph N. Straus (CUNY Graduate Center), Prof. Andy Mead (Indiana University), and Prof. Zachary Bernstein (Eastman)
Friday, April 15, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Ethan Lustig (Eastman): Master’s Research Presentation, Title: “Groove Perception in Music”
Friday, April 8, 2016, 3:30pm, Room MSH 1 (“Fishbowl”)
- Mark Spicer (Professor of Music, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center): “The Question of Tonality in Pop and Rock Songs”
Friday, March 25, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Gurminder Bhogal (Associate Professor of Music, Wellesley College): “Orientalist ornament and Ravel’s Bolero: Finding the other in the self”
Friday, March 18, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- MTSNYS presentations by Prof. Zachary Bernstein, Alyssa Barna, Anna Fulton, and Braden Maxwell
Friday, February 26, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Robert Doran (Assoc. Prof. of French and Comparative Lit., University of Rochester): “Sublimity in Music”
Friday, February 19, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- MTSNYS presentations by Joseph Siu, Sam Bivens, Catrina Kim, and Derek Remes
Friday, February 12, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Edward Klorman (Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Viola, Queen’s College and CUNY Graduate Center): “Koch and Momigny: Theorists of Multiple Agency?”
Thursday, January 21, 2016, 8:00pm, Kilbourn Hall
- Concert: “Music of Robert Morris,” Faculty Artist Series: Robert Morris, composer with with special guests:
Darrett Adkins, cello; Brian Alegant, piano; Daphne Leong, piano;
The Irrera Brothers, violin and piano duo
Friday, January 22, 2016, 3:30pm, Room ESM 305
- Daphne Leong (Assoc. Professor and Chair of the Theory and Composition Department, University of Colorado at Boulder): “Analysis as Communication: What role do theorists play in the wider world?”
- “Brian Alegant (Barker Professor and Director of the Music Theory Division, Oberlin College-Conservatory): “On Performing Robert Morris’s Scraps (1997).”
Friday, January 29, 2016, 3:30pm (time subject to change), Room ESM 305
- Eastman Theory Interview Weekend: Meeting Prospective Theory Students, and Group Analysis
