Congratulations to Jacobs School of Music student Keslie Pharis whose paper entitled “The English Anthem from the Reformation to the Restoration: The balancing of Catholic and Puritanical influences in English church music” was awarded the 2021 Austin B. Caswell Award. The essay, submitted for M401 History and Literature of Music I, addresses the English anthem… Read more »
Elizabeth G. Elmi awarded 2021 Susan J. Ridyard prize at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium
Congratulations to Jacobs School of Music musicology alumna, Dr. Elizabeth Grace Elmi, whose paper entitled “L’arboro captivo fa captivo fructo: Pastoral Politics in the Lyric Song of Late-FifteenthCentury Southern Italy” was awarded 2021 Susan J. Ridyard prize at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. Dr. Elmi’s paper addresses the substantial portion of the surviving Neapolitan lyric repertory… Read more »
Professor Daniel Melamed’s “‘Parallel Proportions in J. S. Bach’s Music'”
Congratulations to Professor Daniel Melamed, whose article “‘Parallel Proportions’ in J. S. Bach’s Music” was published in the journal Eighteenth-Century Music. The article investigates a theory put forward in recent studies that finds relationships and significance in the numbers of measures in Bach’s compositions. In his discussion of the theory and its problems, Prof. Melamed… Read more »
Dr. Halina Goldberg’s “Chopin’s Album Leaves and the Aesthetics of Musical Album Inscription” in JAMS
Congratulations to Dr. Halina Goldberg whose article, “Chopin’s Album Leaves and the Aesthetics of Musical Album Inscription,” is featured in the Journal of American Musicology. Dr. Goldberg’s article addresses the presence of musical compositions and inscriptions from Romantic-era music enthusiasts and composers, including Schubert, Schumann, Wieck Schumann, Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn Hensel, Liszt, and Chopin, in friendship… Read more »
Publication and Performances of late IU Musicology Professor Walter Kaufmann’s Compositions
The compositions of late IU Musicology Professor Walter Kaufmann have been subject of renewed interest from performers, publishers and audiences. Some of his works have been recently recorded by ARC Ensemble (CHANDOS). Now Doblinger Musikverlag is embarking on a project to publish his large compositions, many of which remain in manuscript at the Walter Kaufmann… Read more »
Professor Jill Rogers featured on BBC Radio 3 Interview
On February 27, 2021, Professor Jill Roger’s was featured in an interview on BBC Radio 3’s Music Matters, in which she discussed her recently-published book, Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars (Oxford University Press). Released in January 2021, Resonant Recoveries offers a new perspective on interwar French music and demonstrates that… Read more »
IU Musicology hosts Dietmar Friesenegger
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 »
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 »
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 »