On Wednesday, March 31, the Indiana University Department of Musicology, along with the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute, Borns Jewish Studies Program, and the Institute for European Studies will host Dietmar Friesenegger as he delivers his lecture, “Regional Identity, Conflict, and the Nation State: The Four Lives of a Borderland Cantata.” The… Read more »
Month: March 2021
Recent Publication of “Descriptive Piano Fantasias”
Congratulations to Professors Halina Goldberg and Jonathan D. Bellman whose anthology, Descriptive Piano Fantasias, was recently published by A-R Editions. These critical performing editions are prepared by researchers and include commentary on historical context and performance practice to aid scholars and performers alike. Descriptive Piano Fantasias contains once popular but forgotten compositions from the late eighteenth… Read more »
CFP: 2021 Caswell Award for Undergraduate Projects in Music History
The Austin B. Caswell award was established in 1998 in honor of Prof. Caswell, a devoted teacher and member of the musicology faculty at Indiana University from 1966 until his retirement in 1996. The Caswell Award recognizes the two best undergraduate music history projects (such as research papers, podcasts, and lecture-recitals) submitted at the Jacobs… Read more »
Post-Symposium Highlights and Recording Access
Many thanks to Meredith Michael and Molly Jo for their leadership and involvement in the IU Graduate Theory and Musicology Association’s Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium of Research in Music. The free and public Symposium attracted numerous student and faculty participants from IU and beyond. Highlights from the conference included a graduate student workshop and keynote speech… Read more »
American Handel Society Conference: March 11-14, 2021
The American Handel Society Conference will take place Thursday-Sunday, March 11-14, 2021. The event, hosted by Indiana University Bloomington, will be entirely virtual. Highlights include an opening lecture by Dr. Berta Joncus, scholarly panels by Handel scholars, and access to performances by the Jacobs School’s Opera & Ballet Theater and Historical Performance Institute. The conference schedule can be found here. Registration (here)… Read more »